Re:The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Pu...
by fosk on Monday July 30, 2012 @11:02PM
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Hi, CTO of Mashape here. I'm sorry to hear you had a bad experience when writing the docs, we'll definitely improve the workflow and make it easier to understand.
In the meanwhile, I documented your API with my account, and I would be happy to transfer it to yours if you like. Here it is: http://www.mashape.com/thefosk/heck-yes-markdown
The documentation it is really a documentation, not all the fields are mandatory by the system, except the endpoint URL, and the parameter's name (we need them to auto-generate the client libraries). All the other fields are optional and provided just for the sake of understandability when a third party needs to consume your API.
Re:The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Pu...
by rigelstpierre on Monday July 30, 2012 @08:09PM
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From the sounds of it the Creators are reaching out to some bigger players in the API game.
For a purely REST API, this might work, but for something like free-to-find services for which I need a quick-api solution to use, it just does not work. The API documentation editor (seriously, stop calling it documentation and call it specs instead) needs an advanced mode so I can use it better. Another thing I found missing was user help text on the apis themselves.
This might take off to become something like programmableweb, but developers won't rush to it with open-arms unless (a few) major api providers start using this.