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Ask HN: What APIs do you use the most?

ghostmaree 8y ago
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nikivi 8y ago
I love using AwGo library (https://github.com/deanishe/awgo https://github.com/deanishe/awgo) to make Alfred workflows in Go. Wrote an article about how to write Alfred workflows in Go too here: https://medium.com/@NikitaVoloboev/writing-alfred-workflows-in-go-2a44f62dc432 https://medium.com/@NikitaVoloboev/writing-alfred-workflows-...
silentOpen 8y ago
POSIX
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
  Heh. Especially true if we allow indirect to count, since I'll bet the vast majority of the web APIs upthread are hosted on *nix.
philip1209 8y ago
For https://MoonlightWork.com https://MoonlightWork.com: - Segment (backend event tracking and frontend management of things such as Google analytics) - Intercom (frontend customer chat) - Stripe (payments) - Slack (we use the Api to correspond chat users with user accounts, and to create private channels for ongoing jobs) - Sentry (error tracking with lots of additional information) - Kubernetes (local and production application hosting setup) - Contentful (CMS for our blog) - Imgix (CDN that resizes photos on the fly - which we use for profile photos and logos)
- jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
  We use a lot of the same stack. I particularly love imgix and stripe.
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andyjohnson0 8y ago
.net's System.Web and System.IO. Most of the code I write seems to use them somewhere. They're quite old, and not particularly well factored by modern standards, but I like their straightforwardness.
gregthompsonjr 8y ago
An internal API that I truly hate because of how poorly written it is. I’m probably going to rewrite it and quit.
- mrfredward 8y ago
  This made my day.
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forkLding 8y ago
Social Login APIs such as the FB api for apps I've published
segmondy 8y ago
POSIX, stdlib
rwieruch 8y ago
Not the most, but pretty important for me: Purchasing Power Parity [0] - [0] https://github.com/rwieruch/purchasing-power-parity https://github.com/rwieruch/purchasing-power-parity
- CameronNemo 8y ago
  Are VPNs able to skirt this?
  - rwieruch 8y ago
    Yes. In the end I hope that it's only the minority of people exploiting it and that it does more good for the people who cannot afford to pay for something.
syntheticcdo 8y ago
AWS SDK
matt_oriordan 8y ago
For https://ably.io https://ably.io (Ably Realtime) - Stripe (payments) - PipeDrive & Intercom (CRM integration) - Zapier (some automation between systems) - Rollbar & Sentry (error tracking) - AWS S3 (file storage) - AWS Route53 & CloudFlare (DNS) - AWS EC2 APIs (Infrastructure provisioning) - AddSearch (search) - Freshdesk (tickets) - Sendgrid (email) - Google Recaptha (captcha) - APILayer (tax) - Monitis & Uptrends (monitoring) - Browserstack (browser automation) We use 100s of services (https://blog.ably.io/94-tools-you-need-to-grow-your-startup-ed5505ced995 https://blog.ably.io/94-tools-you-need-to-grow-your-startup-...), but I've only listed the key services where we integrate with their APIs.
- jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
  You use vatlayer.com?

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I love using AwGo library (https://github.com/deanishe/awgo https://github.com/deanishe/awgo) to make Alfred workflows in Go. Wrote an article about how to write Alfred workflows in Go too here: https://medium.com/@NikitaVoloboev/writing-alfred-workflows-in-go-2a44f62dc432 https://medium.com/@NikitaVoloboev/writing-alfred-workflows-...

silentOpen 8y ago

POSIX

yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
Heh. Especially true if we allow indirect to count, since I'll bet the vast majority of the web APIs upthread are hosted on *nix.

philip1209 8y ago

For https://MoonlightWork.com https://MoonlightWork.com: - Segment (backend event tracking and frontend management of things such as Google analytics) - Intercom (frontend customer chat) - Stripe (payments) - Slack (we use the Api to correspond chat users with user accounts, and to create private channels for ongoing jobs) - Sentry (error tracking with lots of additional information) - Kubernetes (local and production application hosting setup) - Contentful (CMS for our blog) - Imgix (CDN that resizes photos on the fly - which we use for profile photos and logos)

jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
We use a lot of the same stack. I particularly love imgix and stripe.

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andyjohnson0 8y ago

.net's System.Web and System.IO. Most of the code I write seems to use them somewhere. They're quite old, and not particularly well factored by modern standards, but I like their straightforwardness.

gregthompsonjr 8y ago

An internal API that I truly hate because of how poorly written it is. I’m probably going to rewrite it and quit.

mrfredward 8y ago
This made my day.

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forkLding 8y ago

Social Login APIs such as the FB api for apps I've published

segmondy 8y ago

POSIX, stdlib

rwieruch 8y ago

Not the most, but pretty important for me: Purchasing Power Parity [0] - [0] https://github.com/rwieruch/purchasing-power-parity https://github.com/rwieruch/purchasing-power-parity

CameronNemo 8y ago
Are VPNs able to skirt this?
- rwieruch 8y ago
  Yes. In the end I hope that it's only the minority of people exploiting it and that it does more good for the people who cannot afford to pay for something.

syntheticcdo 8y ago

AWS SDK

matt_oriordan 8y ago

For https://ably.io https://ably.io (Ably Realtime) - Stripe (payments) - PipeDrive & Intercom (CRM integration) - Zapier (some automation between systems) - Rollbar & Sentry (error tracking) - AWS S3 (file storage) - AWS Route53 & CloudFlare (DNS) - AWS EC2 APIs (Infrastructure provisioning) - AddSearch (search) - Freshdesk (tickets) - Sendgrid (email) - Google Recaptha (captcha) - APILayer (tax) - Monitis & Uptrends (monitoring) - Browserstack (browser automation) We use 100s of services (https://blog.ably.io/94-tools-you-need-to-grow-your-startup-ed5505ced995 https://blog.ably.io/94-tools-you-need-to-grow-your-startup-...), but I've only listed the key services where we integrate with their APIs.

jonathan-kosgei 8y ago
You use vatlayer.com?