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What's an API you wish existed?
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Ronnie
What API do you wish you could use but hasn't been made yet?
API for IH
interesting!
What would be your use case?
Sorry, I was half-joking. I thought about creating a directory of IH products, but then I saw they already have one.
What is that?
API for Indie Hackers ))
check if a given phone number is a valid number and additional metadata about them such as a fax machine(if such things exist) or special numbers etc.,
I believe both Nexmo and Twilio have phone number APIs, though I don't think they'll be able to tell you anything about fax machines. They can at least inform you if the number can be dialed or is in the correct format.
The one that gives you startup ideas. 😆
This is not very hard to build... a lot of ideas are available in the web, collect them, tag them and create a simple api on top of that data. Ofcourse you will have to automate a lot of stuffs along the way.
I haven't yet found a api service to check for 404 on a given link.
Not sure I understand the need here. You're asking for...
If you simply make a request you will get the status code back, along with other information. The API is built into the protocol, so to speak. Why would you need an additional layer?
Ah this seems like a simple problem but its fairly hard:
Raindrop has written about this topic:
https://help.raindrop.io/article/41-broken-links-finder