Hitch

Where developers stay informed of API changes & discussion

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Where developers stay informed of API changes & discussion

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Excited for the relaunch of API Changelog as a stand-alone business! I've known @bpedro since his Tarpipe days (an earlier attempt at something like Zapier meets Yahoo! Pipes). They've taken everything they've learned and poured it into a suite of tools for managing APIs and community.

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10yr ago

@chrismessina @bpedro This is great. Always wondered why API docs are not made keeping technical people in mind. A lot of non-tech people wanna use APIs to serve business needs but fail to do so because of the jargon involved.

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10yr ago

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Maker

@chrismessina Thanks, Chris! I really appreciate all the input you've been giving us since the Tarpipe days :-).

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10yr ago

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@sarthakgh Thanks for your kind words, Sar! That's exactly why we're launching Hitch: to bring APIs to the greater, non-technical audience. Please keep sending any feedback. /cc @chrismessina

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10yr ago

@chrismessina @bpedro ditto! Couldn't have said it better myself. Genius team at work.

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10yr ago

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@andr3 Thanks a lot, André! Please let us know if you have any comments or suggestions. /cc @chrismessina

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10yr ago

How does it work? Is it automatic or API developer should create new releases as with GitHub Releases?

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10yr ago

Hitch API assistant

Maker

@svetlyak40wt Thanks for asking, that's a great question! It's fully automated. We periodically read API machine-readable documentation and compare it with a previous version generating a changelog and notifying all the API followers. What happens if an API doesn't have machine-readable documentation? We help them migrate to machine-readable and, in the meanwhile, we parse and generate differences from their HTML documentation.

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10yr ago

@bpedro I think, you need to build an enterprise self hosted version. It will be valuable in big companies with large amount of internal APIs.

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10yr ago

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Maker

@svetlyak40wt That's a great suggestion! Do you have any particular company in mind that would benefit from this product? Thanks!

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10yr ago

@bpedro I'm working at Yandex. We have a lot of APIs and libraries. Not sure how many of them are parsable by Hitch though. But for now I'm planning to deploy an internal version of my own pet-project, it is about changelogs too but not tied to APIs.

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10yr ago

API changes : a real problem. For the API supply chain. For integration. For trust. Looking forward to see Hitch become the API credit rating agency. #HitchIsTheNewFitch

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10yr ago

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@medjawii That's a great comparison, Mehdi! Being able to fulfill that would make us all very proud. Thanks for your valuable input.

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10yr ago

@bpedro I know some modest minds who tried to solve it too. http://www.programmableweb.com/n... You have all my support!

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10yr ago

@bpedro you should also check with @adamd with its new initiatives as everydeveloper.com and http://www.docstocode.com/

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10yr ago

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@medjawii I know ;) That makes your comment even more valuable. Thanks!

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10yr ago

@bpedro The business model at the end of such "agency" was to sell SaaS/API insurance, coupled with API Terms of service Changelog support/advises and SLA guarantee. Go for Hitch now!

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10yr ago

Desky

Great product! I already liked API Changelog (brilliantly simple) and the new community and management features make it just a must.

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10yr ago

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Maker

@jordiromero Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Jordi! We believe the community features really help API owners better understand their audience.

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10yr ago

You can't beat the combo of @bpedro and @LukeAM for knowing the API community and what it needs. Hitch sounds like the answer to a lot of the industry needs - I'm excited to give it a spin.

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10yr ago

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Maker

@lindybrandon @lukeam Thanks for the kind words, Lorinda! Please let us know if you have any comments or suggestions.

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10yr ago

I first met the founders when we were all working together at the same company. Their professional chemistry and passion for user, nay, developer experience is palpable. API Changelog filled a hole in the developer process and I know Hitch will fill in the rest, enabling companies of all sizes to build successful API communities.

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10yr ago

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@jkriggins Thank you so much, Jen! A lot of what we're doing is a result of the many conversations we've been having with you around APIs. Please keep sharing your ideas and feedback.

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10yr ago