Micro APIs for Everyday Use

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Post by friendly_chap » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 3:28 PM UTC

Micro APIs for Everyday Use
blog.m3o.com

Re: Micro APIs for Everyday Use

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Post by nickreese » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:27 PM UTC

Really surprised this is the first I've seen of the idea for an API marketplace that seems to get the developer UX right. Would love to be an investor in this idea.

Re: Micro APIs for Everyday Use

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Post by orliesaurus » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:28 PM UTC

Basically the old Blockspring platform but built for 2021 - looks good!

Re: Micro APIs for Everyday Use

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Post by jamestimmins » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:33 PM UTC

I love this, and can immediately see the value.

Is there an opportunity for third party developers to add new APIs?

Re: Micro APIs for Everyday Use

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Post by tyingq » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:38 PM UTC

I suppose it's because of the "micro" focus, but it seems odd to me that the table name would be optional in the DB, and that the KV api doesn't have namespaces.

The navigation and layout of the site are terrific.

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Post by IAmMaulik » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:40 PM UTC

This looks great!

Re: Micro APIs for Everyday Use

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Post by adamhp » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:41 PM UTC

Would be cool to have a really lightweight auth service for registering and logging in. Could still be ephemeral on the order of hours.

This seems like it would be easy to monetize (if that were desired) by just increasing quotas / limits, or adding certain features to any particular API that made QOL better.

Re: Micro APIs for Everyday Use

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Post by asim » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:45 PM UTC

jamestimmins wrote: post #4

I love this, and can immediately see the value. Is there an opportunity for third party developers to add new APIs?

Hi, yes this is the end goal and for it to be entirely self service. For now we're working directly with those third parties and doing the integration ourselves but ideally we want to let people do it themselves, display their own logos and price the APIs however they see fit. Happy to chat further about it and get ideas too on how we could speed this up.

Re: Micro APIs for Everyday Use

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Post by asim » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:47 PM UTC

adamhp wrote: post #7

Would be cool to have a really lightweight auth service for registering and logging in. Could still be ephemeral on the order of hours. This seems like it would be easy to monetize (if that were desired) by just increasing quotas / limits, or adding certain features to any particular API that made QOL better.

Hey there. We've got you covered. Here's our user service that includes user management and authentication https://m3o.com/user

Re: Micro APIs for Everyday Use

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Post by krat0sprakhar » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 4:49 PM UTC

Love this! I'm surprised this hasn't been done before (or it has?) because it sounds so good. The list of APIs cover almost 95% of all project ideas that I want to run on Cloud, so I'm really excited to try this out. The simple pricing structure is excellent as well.

Good luck!