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Michelle Cunningham

Engineering @ Parabola.io

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Joined on February 15th, 2017

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Hey everyone, hope you're enjoying learning from Slash and working with APIs! Slash was a fun character for us to create. We think it's important that everyone has access to the power of APIs and wanted to create a guide that was simple and relatable. We hope that using Slash's dog training to explain how APIs work makes it easy to understand and produces some smiles :) We're a dog-loving office and our own pets were a big inspiration for picking a dog as our friendly API expert (although they are not nearly as well-behaved). So, thanks for taking a look at WorkWithAPIs.com even if it was just to see why our icon is a dog! PS - Just wanted to share my favorite Slash example incase you don't have time to fully read to guide: "Your request may have been good, but the API is not working for some reason. This will usually result in a 500 status. This is the equivalent of Slash taking a nap because he's tired, so he can't bring you the ball right now."

on How to work with APIs

2yr ago

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@hassanriggs @siddharth_vora Thanks! Our services are focused on what we call the "boutique" landlords. They typically have between one to several residential properties and are looking for long term renters. We found that this group suffers the most from lack of communication by many of the traditional property management solutions, so want to better serve them by taking care of the management while using the tech to help us communicate effectively.

4yr ago

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@seanbolak Thanks Bolak! We agree with you about the need for disruption, it's long overdue. Thanks for informing us about the background as well.

4yr ago