Ask HN: Does Async API service make sense?

Posted by binthinking on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @06:29PM
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I am the co-founder of a cyber fraud detection startup (beta soon). We plan to provide our API in an asynchronous mode, meaning that you can use the service anytime, but you don't get the results immediately. You would be able to poll for updates (API or web interface) or get the results by email.

Does it make any sense to provide an asynchronous API? Any services that work in this manner?

Thoughts/comments/questions

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Re:Ask HN: Does Async API service make sense? by skram on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @07:19PM (#3507690)

Several APIs work like that. One example I can think of is IQEngines' (see http://developer.iqengines.com/apidoc/current/apis/query-api...). You upload an image and a few moments later need to query another endpoint to get your results.

One thing that makes it easy for developers is that they do provide a web hook feature (as does the likes of Github).

@skram

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