<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false"><li>The creator needed to convert Markdown to HTML for a project and found API prices to be expensive.</li><li>Deciding to build their own file conversion API, they implemented it using Node.js, PostgreSQL, and vanilla JS.</li><li>Supported conversions include Markdown to HTML, HTML to PDF, PDF to Text, JSON to YAML, CSV to JSON, and text cleaning.</li><li>The API offers competitive pricing starting from 100 free conversions per month and going up to $0.0012 per conversion.</li><li>Lessons learned include the importance of security, support burden, market risk, and opportunity costs.</li><li>The decision to build the API was driven by absurd pricing gaps in the industry and a desire for sustainability.</li><li>The API has been live for a day with users signing up, and there are plans to launch on Product Hunt.</li><li>Interested users can try the API for file conversions at t3xtr.org with 100 free conversions for testing.</li></ul>

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