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dandevs

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About dandevs

I'm one of the builders at Fern. We're making APIs easier to use, starting with generating SDKs and Docs from OpenAPI. danny (at) buildwithfern.com

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    Show HN: Generate SDKs with gRPC and REST

    We built the world’s first generated, idiomatic gRPC and REST SDK. If you have public gRPC and REST endpoints, Fern is the SDK provider for you.

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    Comment #39419987

    We tried this out and are impressed at how customizable it is: https//blog.buildwithfern.com SEO is important to us and right now we’re happy with the quality score we’re seeing th…

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    Fern | https://buildwithfern.com | Founding Backend Engineer | $160k + equity | On-site NYC | Full-time At Fern, we're creating the modern developer experience platform. We work wi…

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    Comment #38122053

    Fern (YC W23) | Founding Engineer | New York City | $130k-$160k + 0.5-1.0% equity | Full Time | Open Source | https://buildwithfern.com REST APIs underpin the internet but are stil…

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    Comment #37990393

    Hey, co-founder of Fern ( https://www.buildwithfern.com/ ) here. I too am inspired by Stripe's API documentation. Specifically, I like that it: 1. shows the API reference alongside…

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    Hey, co-founder of Fern https://www.buildwithfern.com here. You're right that four companies are going after SDK and Docs generation. After seeing enterprises like AWS, Stripe, Twi…

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    Fern (YC W23) | Founding Engineer | New York City | $125k-$175k + equity | Full Time | Open Source | https://buildwithfern.com REST APIs underpin the internet but are still painful…

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    If you want to generate a Java client for testing, you can use Fern to generate one: https://github.com/fern-api/fern-java disclaimer: I'm a maintainer of Fern.

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    > Why don't more companies publish either a specification for their API or an API client on a website like GitHub? Being API-first and caring about the developer experience (DX) is…

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    I'm one of the builders of an open source project ( https://buildwithfern.com/docs ) to improve API codegen. We built Fern as an alternative to OpenAPI, but of course we're fully c…

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    I feel like this line in the Moonwalk proposal was written for you! "Deep nesting can become unnecessarily cumbersome for reading and writing OpenAPI descriptions."

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    While I have many thoughts about OpenAPI's ease-of-use and readability, I'm going to focus my commentary on the proposal at hand. 1. "The primary goal of this proposal for a major …

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    Show HN: Get notified in Slack for each GitHub star

    I wrote a Zap on Zapier to get notified when someone stars your repo. I use it on our open-source repo and it's helpful. Fern: https://github.com/fern-api/fern

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    Comment #33443646

    Interesting. What language are you writing? Is there a specific Resource you use: https://apidocs.theforeman.org/foreman/latest/apidoc/v2.html

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    Ask HN: What API do you wish had a client SDK?

    I'm looking to practice writing SDKs. In doing so, I may as well make something useful for other people.

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    Howdy swyx. Long-time follower, first time writer. Following this thread! I have a hunch we'll see improvements to the Temporal workshops (like the Go one posted today).