Your API Is Not Plumbing. It’s the Product.

A technically perfect API with zero adoption is worthless. A mediocre API with great documentation and helpful SDKs can dominate markets. A consumer app with bad UX loses users. An API with bad developer experience loses entire companies. Don’t just do…


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A technically perfect API with zero adoption is worthless. A mediocre API with great documentation and helpful SDKs can dominate markets. A consumer app with bad UX loses users. An API with bad developer experience loses entire companies. Don’t just document endpoints alphabetically. Show the actual sequence for first test call.


This content originally appeared on HackerNoon and was authored by Samuel Oladipupo


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