Show HN: Generate REST APIs for Existing Applications
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Show HN: Generate REST APIs for Existing Applications
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Re: Show HN: Generate REST APIs for Existing Applications
#2Well-presented, nice work. See also: http://apify.heroku.com/
Re: Show HN: Generate REST APIs for Existing Applications
#3Another one!? How hard is it to write a few lines of Sinatra, Express, Flask ... code, then deploy with Heroku? This is getting ridicilous. Are programmers becoming so dumb they can't create an API on their own?
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#4This looks like a pretty neat web app. Nice UI and promo video, also. I think the core audience for this, is people who are somehow locked in using MySQL, though. For someone starting out, it seems like a bad idea to use this because it is sort of encouraging bad habits, right?
For example if you making a new sandwich, why would you make a device that takes the peanut butter from the jar, puts it in a bigger jar, then you use a knife to get the peanut butter from the bigger jar to put on your PB&J? It just seems like a bad middle man, if you are starting a new project.
Maybe I'm wrong, but again, it looks neat for people maybe in old companies where they have no choice but I just hope this doesn't encourage people to start with MySQL just for this app or with a purpose to only turn it into an API.
Or maybe another application of this is turning an existing blog with WordPress (MySQL) into an API? Not sure...
Re: Show HN: Generate REST APIs for Existing Applications
#5Wait, tell me again why I should trust you with database credentials? Whitelist you in my infrastructure? Allow you to define an entry point to my app?
I would honestly rather pay for a product like this and get the source than what is in this offering.
It's interesting nonetheless.
Re: Show HN: Generate REST APIs for Existing Applications
#6Another app that generates REST code for you (in PHP) as well as a simple web interface is http://phreeze.com/
Re: Show HN: Generate REST APIs for Existing Applications
#7This looks like a pretty neat web app. Nice UI and promo video, also. I think the core audience for this, is people who are somehow locked in using MySQL, though. For someone starting out, it seems like a bad idea to use this because it is sort of encouraging bad habits, right? For example if you making a new sandwich, why would you make a device that takes the peanut butter from the jar, puts it in a bigger jar, the…
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 beginning. In fact, the idea came to us after attempting to build an API for a 10 year old PHP application at Rackspace.
Re: Show HN: Generate REST APIs for Existing Applications
#8Another one!? How hard is it to write a few lines of Sinatra, Express, Flask ... code, then deploy with Heroku? This is getting ridicilous. Are programmers becoming so dumb they can't create an API on their own?
Enterprise applications are usually so deep and far away from the database that building an API by hand, per se, would be nearly impossible. This product is targeted at those companies, not small, agile ones.
Re: Show HN: Generate REST APIs for Existing Applications
#9Well-presented, nice work. See also: http://apify.heroku.com/
Also http://developer.yahoo.com/rss/ and http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/ to some extend.
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#10Nice piece of software, I used the trial for a bit and was able to get an API up faster than I could program out one myself. As a consultant I have a few clients with rather bad old websites who could use something like this for new mobile apps they are wanting to develop. This makes it a bit easier to scale out to that.