Open Source is losing, SaaS is leading, APIs will win…

I might not have been clear enough, when I mean "API" I mean stuff like keen.io, algolia, contentful and others, which are SaaS products with an API-only/-first mentality.

It's not a an API "connector" for a SaaS product, but the API is the product.

Re: Open Source is losing, SaaS is leading, APIs will win…

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Post by dozzie » Wed, Mar 16, 2016, 11:56 AM UTC

decodingvc wrote: post #3

dozzie wrote: post #2

Yup, the guy still doesn't understand what "API" term means. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11288833

Thanks for reading. I might not have been clear enough, when I mean "API" I mean stuff like keen.io, algolia, contentful and others, which are SaaS products with an API-only/-first mentality. It's not a an API "connector" for a SaaS product, but the API is the product.

API in such case is not the product. A service exposing the API is the product. You don't license interfaces for other to implement, so you don't seel API.

Re: Open Source is losing, SaaS is leading, APIs will win…

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Post by dang » Wed, Mar 16, 2016, 8:16 PM UTC

dozzie wrote: post #2

Yup, the guy still doesn't understand what "API" term means. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11288833

Please don't post comments to put somebody down.

Neither this comment nor your previous one adds any information. If you understand more than someone else, a good comment would teach them (and us) what you know.