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Andreas Klinger@andreasklinger · Tech at Product Hunt 💃
The concept is interesting But it seems it should be more correctly called 'get notified when api docs change' Many APIs (especially the ones prone to change (i am looking at you facebook)) are lagging behind with their api documentation.
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Maxime Salomon@maximesalomon · Founder - The Growth Bakery
@andreasklinger Hey Andreas, you are right. If you have access to change the tagline, go for it :) PS: @bpedro is the guy behind API Changelog. Might be interesting to enable him to comment and answer questions.
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Andreas Klinger@andreasklinger · Tech at Product Hunt 💃
@maximesalomon sure would love to hear from the maker directly! I invited @bpedro :)
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Maxime Salomon@maximesalomon · Founder - The Growth Bakery
@andreasklinger Awesome :)
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Bruno Pedro@bpedro · CTO @ Hitch
@andreasklinger Thanks for the comment :) I agree that the tagline might be too generic because changes are found by analyzing API docs. Would you see value in having a method to analyze API changes by actually making HTTP calls and seeing if anything changed (method signature, input payload, response, headers, etc.)? I really appreciate the feedback!
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Ria Blagburn@riaface · Founder, GrowBeyond
@bpedro I really like this concept - we use quite a few APIs and right now rely on RSS feeds from the developer blogs of Twitter, Facebook etc. to see if anything's changed. It frequently does - we've not even launched yet and we've already had to tweak things a couple of times after APIs have changed! I agree with @andreasklinger's comment, and I think yo… See more
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Andreas Klinger@andreasklinger · Tech at Product Hunt 💃
@bpedro if you can parse real api feedback that would be a service to mankind - unsure if i'd personally pay because i am atm not heavily depended on any service. but i worked on projects that would have paid for that kind of watchdog.
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