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Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
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#2An asynchronous API that returns a full review of my codebase by dozens of industry specialists with special attention paid to best practices and idiomatic implementation details.
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#3Product information. Things like "The mainboard named XY from producer ABC has the manufacturer sku 1234567, the EAN-13 00123... and the UPC 01234...". Ideally add to that the custom specs, like "it has that many usb slots and this socket" etc.
But I think I miss part of the picture here, there is probably a channel transmitting structured information like this from manufacturers to vendors, I just never found it.
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#4A cost effective API into whois data that doesn't come across as sketchy or fragile.
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#6I wanted machine learning-based app configuration. So I built it and spun it out as a separate product: https://improve.ai/
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#7Subscription billing API that deals with reminders, renewals, e-mails/cancellations, etc. Everything related to that. All existing solutions don't work well if revenue per user is a "measley" 2 USD per month.
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#8A cost effective API into whois data that doesn't come across as sketchy or fragile.
Most use cases of APIs into whois data are sketchy (typically email spam).
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#9Subscription billing API that deals with reminders, renewals, e-mails/cancellations, etc. Everything related to that. All existing solutions don't work well if revenue per user is a "measley" 2 USD per month.
So a "Low cost" billing API, everyone's dream!
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#10Easy way to get geo from ip. I hate a lot of the options: downloading binarys or using google's that just regulates you.