var MarketingCost = 0;
var customer = api.getNewCustomer(MarketingCost);
var BankAccount = api.Sell(customer);
Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
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#122API for musical instruments, gear, equipment and its info? If anyone know a good one, please do share.
Can you expand on this? What's use case?
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#123An easy way to get a webpage's image/thumbnail. For e.g. get the the main product image from an Amazon URL.
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#125Let 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…
I think Zapier and other similar services can do this sort of thing?
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#126I wanted machine learning-based app configuration. So I built it and spun it out as a separate product: https://improve.ai/
I think this is a really cool idea, but I feel like it could be described in a better way.
'Machine learning-based app configuration' is very techie and vague and could mean a LOT of different things in a number of realms. What about something more specific and benefit-focused, like: 'AI that automatically improves your site's design'? To me something like that communicates what the product is more clearly, assuming I understand it correctly of course.
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#127Let 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…
I've heard good things about Autohotkey, but every time I try to do even the simplest of tasks it becomes a hassle. Like even just clicking on a specific point on your screen you have to know the exact coordinates of the place you want clicked. It seems like it'd be very easy just to record where you want to click.
When I'm working on tasks like that I like to add a hotkey that just puts the mouse's location on a tooltip for me. Sometimes you can just Tab to whatever you're trying to click, too, which is robust to window position.
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#128Let 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…
I've heard good things about Autohotkey, but every time I try to do even the simplest of tasks it becomes a hassle. Like even just clicking on a specific point on your screen you have to know the exact coordinates of the place you want clicked. It seems like it'd be very easy just to record where you want to click.
When I'm working on tasks like that I like to add a hotkey that just puts the mouse's location on a tooltip for me. Sometimes you can just Tab to whatever you're trying to click, too, which is robust to window position.
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#129Sometime back I wished I had a light weight CMS that can serve your content and allow you to program sections of your content so that you can make it more dynamic. For example, I can have something like this as the content: The sum of @Var1 and @Var2 is #Sum and then we can program #Sum (we call this an expression) to return the sum of @Var1 and @Var2. Once I pass the values for the variables @Var1 and @Var2 to API,…
Not exactly this, but https://sheetsu.com is a lightweight CMS from Google Spreadsheets.
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#130A webhook or something that would tell me when a phone number changes owner. I.e.: when we bill someone weekly for something and then the phone number changes owner we want to stop immediately. Same if you send sms-es that you don’t want delivered to anyone but the intended recipient.
I can understand the positive uses for such an API. For the uses you mentioned it would be great.
However, I hope nothing like that is ever made! It would get abused to no end. I've personally changed number multiple times for privacy reasons.