Any ideas for API-related projects? Anyone interested in working with me on one?
I intend on releasing two or three API products within the coming months and have been working on a genericized framework to support subscription based APIs.
I am wondering if any of you hackers have any ideas that this could be expanded too.
If anyone wants to pair up on an API project I would be thrilled to. I could certainly use some help on the marketing/branding side of things.
There's an IH user (https://www.indiehackers.com/user/isnit0) working on an API side project which sounds very similar (if only it were possible to @tag users and have them receive a notification, @channingallen... :P )
Why don't you tell us a bit more about who you are, what your background is and what motivates you? I'm sure there are many talented IH lurkers whose curiosity you could pique...
Oops, just commented, then your post appeared :)
Yes! I've got an MVP built for an API-based SaaS would love some input on it.
Marketing, branding and selling are my preferred tasks.
I'd love to hear more about it.
Out of curiosity, what's your go-to Rest (I assume) API stack?
NodeJS, Go, Ruby...?
Also, It sounds like we both created something similar with the API framework (though I'm not having much success - for various reasons)
Not necessarily my go-to but this is build on NodeJS.
apiconsole.io does loo similar. However, it had never occurred to me to offer it as a service itself.
I wanted to build an API, and I found myself writing a bunch of API tooling (key management, throttling, usage reports, etc).
I decided to write it in a generic way so it I could repurpose it if the first one did not find a good market fit.
I built it so I could easily deploy my own APIs, then figured I might as well launch it :)
I've never gotten as far as making money from any APIs though!
When Puppeteer (https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer) came out I built a couple of headless chrome apis:
Public demo isn't working, but it supports PNG,JPEG,PDF,Email Friendly HTML, Batched processing, and is used by a company I worked for (for free, hosted by them) which they make a fair bit of money from
Maybe they'll provide a bit of inspiration?
Thats great. I am surprised that chromeaas did not get any traction, that seems like a very useful tool.
Thanks :) It is quite useful, but I never got round to properly launching it.
Maybe I'll do it this year :p
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