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A comment on Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users. Parent comment

Re:Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users by Spivak on Friday October 02, 2020 @05:39PM (#24667279)
> Having an API really does create an enormous amount of work for you.

I'm sure for some codebases this is true but are y'all not just giving customers (basically) the same endpoints you give yourselves/your frontend team to build your 1st party UI?

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Re:Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users by oblio on Friday October 02, 2020 @05:50PM (#24667377)
Great. And now you have to refactor the API. Your life is suddenly 1000x more complicated.
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Re:Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users by neutronicus on Saturday October 03, 2020 @11:20AM (#24672589)
In our case it's a 30 year old CAD application written in C++, so no
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