I wish AWS autoscaling groups had a "recycle every machine" operation.
Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
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Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#621. A process engine that can execute a process given as an EPC (ideally with an embeddable gui editor). The app notifies the API of event completions and the API allows you to query the current state of the process. 2. An embeddable survey tool like SurveyGizmo, but completely whitelabelable, including the survey editor 3. An API for benchmark scores for iOS and Android devices (give me all devices that are as fast o…
What does EPC stand for?
Event-driven process chain[1]. In fact, any executable process modelling language would do.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven_process_chain
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#63Let me programmatically schedule a task to run at a specific time, just once. E.g. if my user tells me to remind them about something in a day, I want to schedule a task to do that exactly 24 hours from now.
I'm sure this exists already but it's hard to find because searching usually points me to a cronjob service. But what I'm looking for is distinct from a that. I don't want to run something every minute or hour or checking if there's any work to do. I just want a given task to run as a pre-determined time, scaled to any arbitrary number of tasks.
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#64Let me programmatically schedule a task to run at a specific time, just once. E.g. if my user tells me to remind them about something in a day, I want to schedule a task to do that exactly 24 hours from now. I'm sure this exists already but it's hard to find because searching usually points me to a cronjob service. But what I'm looking for is distinct from a that. I don't want to run something every minute or hour or…
The cron alternative that does something only once is 'at'.
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stripe's pricing is 2.9% + 30¢, so the fee for a $2 payment would be 36¢, effectively 18%.
We're paying the 18% already for our $2 transaction... Another 5% on that sounds doable.
This is definitely one of those problems that while I was implementing it every day I would think "Why the hell do I have to do this myself"
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#66A reverse pastebin, where you give it a pastebin URL and it returns the plaintext.
Hey! I just made https://reversepaste.com/ for you :)
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#67I wish AWS autoscaling groups had a "recycle every machine" operation.
I agree with this. Currently it is super annoying to upgrade a group to a new launch config
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#68I wish AWS autoscaling groups had a "recycle every machine" operation.
I agree with this. Currently it is super annoying to upgrade a group to a new launch config
Just found this: https://github.com/colinbjohnson/aws-missing-tools
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#69Let me programmatically schedule a task to run at a specific time, just once. E.g. if my user tells me to remind them about something in a day, I want to schedule a task to do that exactly 24 hours from now. I'm sure this exists already but it's hard to find because searching usually points me to a cronjob service. But what I'm looking for is distinct from a that. I don't want to run something every minute or hour or…
Celery?
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#70Reddit/HN like forum as an API. I want a forum for my site, using my own templates and integrated into my app, but without having to code the forum myself. What buttercms does for blogs, but for forums.
I second that, it might exist, but its not easy to find.