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Ask HN: API-only startups?
Are there any API-only startups, or other businesses that are either successful or have good prospects?
- richf 14y agoTwilio?
- mdhayes 14y agoPusher?
- dtsingletary 14y agoUrban Airship. Parse.
- joeschindel 14y agoZapier?
- rhomboss 14y agoLove Zapier, but I'd say they're basically the opposite... They have a product based almost exclusively on external APIs.
- noveltysystems 14y agoSendgrid is a great example of an API-only startup. They've sent 45 Billion transactional emails for over 60,000 customers.
- JayNeely 14y agoAlong similar lines: http://www.mailgun.com/ http://www.mailgun.com/ http://postmarkapp.com/ http://postmarkapp.com/ And a couple of non-mail-related ones: http://www.fliptop.com/ http://www.fliptop.com/ - social intelligence API http://www.twilio.com http://www.twilio.com - SMS & IP Telephony API
- skram 14y agoTropo
- dawson 14y agoapiary.io
- rcavezza 14y agoI think Kinvey fits into this category. Backend as a Service.
- hisabness 14y agojanrain?
- Concours 14y agohttp://www.feedsapi.com http://www.feedsapi.com fits well in this category
- rabidonrails 14y agohttp://phaxio.com http://phaxio.com
- shafqat 14y agoNewsCred (http://www.newscred.com http://www.newscred.com)
- __ingrid__ 14y agoThe Echo Nest (http://the.echonest.com/ http://the.echonest.com/)
- rdegges 14y agohttps://www.opencnam.com/ https://www.opencnam.com/
- jaredsohn 14y agoMashery would be another example. Often companies that have a strong business case for developers using their APIs will sponsor hackathons, so you could find more such companies by looking at lists of hackathon sponsors.