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Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed?

• deleted 9y ago
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• dozzie 9y ago
  I don't care about just APIs, I want libraries and services.
• ruairidhwm 9y ago
  A comparison API. So for example I could enter '12345' and a unit, and it could return an interesting fact like 'That distance is like climbing Mount Everest twice!'
  • v2s2c 9y ago
    Looks like similar version is already there. http://numbersapi.com/42 http://numbersapi.com/42
• rwieruch 9y ago
  PPP [0] - I wrote my own little node package around it [1], but it was tough to find a proper API(s) to retrieve and aggregate all the data. - [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity - [1] https://github.com/rwieruch/purchasing-power-parity https://github.com/rwieruch/purchasing-power-parity
  • Jefro118 9y ago
    That's a pretty interesting one, nice work!
• mabynogy 9y ago
  IRC api over all networks (access to the channel list for example).