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The Founder Gazette
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Filed under: api

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Startup news

Resy cuts off user whose AI assistant made 200 requests an hour

Reports of deactivations across Resy, Amex and Uber suggest platforms are starting to police automated agents that hit their systems at machine speed.

215 · 10 September 2026
Platform risk

ServiceTitan cuts off Podium after nine years, with 30 days' notice

Roughly 1,000 shared contractors lost the integration in the middle of peak HVAC season. None of them were party to the agreement that governed it.

117 · 22 August 2026
Onboarding

One vendor in 30 asked how the product went. It cost $50

Jason Lemkin signed up for more than 30 APIs this year. Exactly one company sent a question instead of a sequence, and got a 400-word product spec back for the price of some credits.

13 · 8 August 2026