The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Public With 430 APIs

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Post by rigelstpierre » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 9:42 PM UTC

The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Public With 430 APIs
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Re: The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Public With 430 APIs

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Post by 3amOpsGuy » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 9:57 PM UTC

>> When you’re a marketplace, you always fight the chicken/egg problem and the last thing you want to do is open up a marketplace when you don’t have enough supply yet

What's are your views here?

This is a really interesting question for me. I keep putting off a side project that I'd love to do because it suffers this exact problem.

I want to believe there's another way to handle this situation.

Re: The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Public With 430 APIs

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Post by rigelstpierre » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 10:02 PM UTC

3amOpsGuy wrote: post #2

>> When you’re a marketplace, you always fight the chicken/egg problem and the last thing you want to do is open up a marketplace when you don’t have enough supply yet What's are your views here? This is a really interesting question for me. I keep putting off a side project that I'd love to do because it suffers this exact problem. I want to believe there's another way to handle this situation.

Seems the solution is to really market to the creators of quality and useful API creators and build that with the promise of the users coming latter.

They app is really well designed and useful without the users there to the API creator.

Re: The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Public With 430 APIs

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Post by danso » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 10:21 PM UTC

Some of these APIs aren't very well developed...the Airbnb API, for example, is just an unofficial one, and so far supports only a "Hello World" endpoint

http://www.mashape.com/john-matt/airbnb

Re: The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Public With 430 APIs

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Post by mangoman » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 10:28 PM UTC

I think the idea of putting APIs into a store is a great way for smaller devs to really get their products noticed, and even monetize their hard work easier. And as a developer I totally see the need for this kind of product. I'm tired of searching for an api on google/github/etc and not being totally sure of its quality, and I would love to see if Mashape will grow and perhaps allow people to review APIs, and host examples as well.

Re: The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Public With 430 APIs

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Post by nivertech » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 10:33 PM UTC

looks kinda like APIgee

Re: The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Public With 430 APIs

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Post by rigelstpierre » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 10:52 PM UTC

nivertech wrote: post #6

looks kinda like APIgee

Works in a similar nature except I don't think APIgee has Auto Documentation

Re: The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Public With 430 APIs

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Post by sandfox » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 10:52 PM UTC

I think the open source equivalent to this is well worth a mention: http://apis.io/ It's not quite the same feature set but was never designed to be and all the code is on github so you deploy your own if you so wished, https://github.com/apisio/apisio (pull requests welcome)

Re: The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Public With 430 APIs

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Post by rigelstpierre » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 10:52 PM UTC

danso wrote: post #4

Some of these APIs aren't very well developed...the Airbnb API, for example, is just an unofficial one, and so far supports only a "Hello World" endpoint http://www.mashape.com/john-matt/airbnb

You need to take any community driven site with a grain of salt, there will always be API's that aren't great.

Re: The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Public With 430 APIs

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Post by eranation » Mon, Jul 30, 2012, 11:00 PM UTC

Too much load on launch day? I get a "Oops, an error occured :S" screen

Edit: back now