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Omnivore | Full Time | REMOTE or ONSITE (Tampa, FL) | USA or Canada Omnivore is a universal API for restaurant point-of-sales. Our API integrates hundreds of apps directly into the…

Omnivore | Full Time | REMOTE or ONSITE (Tampa, FL) | USA or Canada Omnivore is a universal API for restaurant point-of-sales. Our API integrates hundreds of apps directly into the…

I'm a founder of Emergent One, a startup that uses similar agent-based technology to Chartio to access production databases and build out RESTful APIs. Some of our APIs are write-e…

Often times, particularly in enterprise software, part of the terms of a deal include a "source code escrow" clause. This means that if you go out of business, the customer with th…

The issue with web scraping is that it relies on the scraper to keep up with changes made to the site. If a site owner changes the layout or implements a new feature, the programs …

Yes, the numbers for TechStars Cloud are accurate. If you're interested in learning more about the themed program, feel free to contact me and I'll answer any questions you have! S…

Just chatted with Max over Skype. Had some great suggestions that I'm going to work on implementing right away - would have gladly paid a small consultation fee for the session.

Apologies for this oversight - we'll fix it ASAP. In the mean time, here are the articles we were mentioned in: TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/11/techstars-debuts-11-clo…

We totally understand the hesitation there. We're launching with the hosted direct-connection form, but we have tons of plans to specifically address this concern. First, we're act…

We definitely built the product with existing applications (without an API) in mind. We found it much more difficult to add an API after-the-fact than if you design for one in the …

Emergent One - Remote (US) - Full Time Emergent One automatically generates REST APIs for existing applications and databases. We're a new startup devoted to making APIs better and…

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Just to name a couple similar companies off the top of my head: http://parse.com http://kinvey.com http://cloudmine.me http://proxomo.com

This configuration can still be RESTful as long as you POST to those endpoints. The complexity I was referring to is the snowball effect of adding different actions. If you use hyp…

Exactly. Having these endpoints instantly turns your API into an RPC-API. This is the start of a snowball of complexity introduced for your consumers.

Documenting every function is great practice. Masklinn was just stating that an API based on 'functions' is inherently not a REST API, but instead RPC. The documentation sentiment …