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The Third-Party API Economy
Strong API-first businesses sit in this sweet spot: they provide mission critical but non-core functionality to their customers, like accepting payments, providing cloud security, or sending communications to customers.
Packy McCormick • APIs All the Way Down
The Third Party API Economy Part II: Announcing the API-First Directory
Grace Isfordgisford.medium.com
APIs are becoming a crucial building block for software development. Increasingly, APIs are a critical way through which applications interact with each other. Low-quality, difficult-to-consume APIs are putting both customer experience and revenue at risk. Companies must quickly deliver high-quality APIs that are easily consumable.
April Dunford • Sales Pitch: How to Craft a Story to Stand Out and Win
APIs create an environment where anybody who wants to develop on top of their platforms can do so. No need to send you a formal request, just take those APIs and innovate. Then, if someone builds a great new service or capability, we'll work out a commercial licensing agreement so that everyone makes money.
Anthony Williams • Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Agora is an API-first business, which means it grows in two ways:
Packy McCormick • Bull & Bear: Agora, the API Powering Clubhouse
With a public API, you are essentially saying to the developer community, “These are the things we can do—perhaps you can leverage these services to do something amazing that we couldn't anticipate ourselves.”
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
As Web 2.0 companies began to deeply understand the powerful potential of their innovations — the game-ish reaction buttons, the follower graph, the algorithmic ‘newsfeed’ — they became adept at a clever stratagem. Rather than committing to perpetual openness, they could offer new user tools or developer APIs and encourage the community to use them... See more