If it has a good enough UI, people will pay, just like anything else. Not everybody wants to build their own scripts around the data, even if its free.
Obviously this is not a billion dollar idea, but it sure could bring in some $ to pay for a full-time developer or two and still make a little profit.
> If it has a good enough UI, people will pay, just like anything else. Not everybody wants to build their own scripts around the data, even if its free.
Then a big corp comes up with their own offering and steamrolls you with their lower prices, integration with their existing products, and better engineering/sales staff. See for instance, mongodb and elasticsearch.
What's your moat here? What's preventing a competitor from using the blockchain data you published to make their own product?
>* ability to build custom baskets and/or change the weighting of different categories
Considering that the data is public, that seems easy to do. See also: above comment about moats.