Comment by the_pwner224

You create hotdog / not-hotdog API. It reads an image and returns hotdog or not-hotdog.

You set API pricing at 1.5 cents per image analysis.

Another company creates an Android hotdog/not-hotdog app. They price it at $5/month. Each app user does an average of 60 food queries per month.

You get 60 API calls = $0.9 revenue. Let's say half of that gets used for compute costs. You're left with $0.45/month profit per user.

The company that made the frontend around your API gets ($5 - 30% app store cut - $0.9 your API cut) = $2.6/month profit per user.