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For consumers, "there's an app for that". For businesses, "there's an API for that".
by zzen 13y ago
For consumers, "there's an app for that".
For businesses, "there's an API for that".
- jmduke 13y agoI'd follow that with: For tech businesses, "there's an API for that". For 90% of the other businesses, "what's an API?" There's a vast amount of value to be captured by adding pleasant and easily used interfaces over otherwise boring APIs.
- AznHisoka 13y agoFor 90% of other businesses, there's an Excel export. There's your API.
- zbruhnke 13y agoand I'd counter that point with there are a ton of businesses being built on top of API's to deliver the types of products those "Other 90%" won't build themselves. Innovation drives more innovation, the future is business being built on top of the framework these API's are laying
- chaz 13y agoThere's a massive gap between the tools that are given to [business] end customers vs the APIs. If I'm savvy enough to propose complex processes or ask nuanced questions but not savvy enough to write code against an API to get it done, I'm SOL. Expensive developer is my only real solution. Agree that good API UIs (I realize that's two "interfaces") has a great future ahead.
- will_work4tears 13y agoFor government, "Sorry, you're not authorized to access dot com resources, so we'll spend 2 million and several years developing a poor replacement." I'm not bitter about Army Regulations regarding *.mil TLDs at all.