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Spire.io is out of beta

by plunchete on 3/8/12, 12:38 AM with 10 comments

  • by graphnical on 3/8/12, 3:41 AM

    Haha... yea... so I looked at the API for like 2 mins then the code examples... and was trying to find the justification for the 'We provide you with hosted, secure, reliable, and scalable APIs' part... all I saw was a msging api... so I started thinking all deep like... is there some other part that generically talks to any api... and this is some architecture that organizes the other apis... like 'channels' & 'messages'... hahaha... then I was like... the hell... and RTFCs.

    XD

    Perhaps, if you plan on other APIs that's cool but give indication that this is just one... give it an icon or something... and then a 'coming soon' icon... group 'em up in a section called APIs.

    GL!

  • by Hominem on 3/8/12, 5:14 AM

    Is this satire? I'm a legitimately confused here. The getting started was about hypermedia and API discovery schemes but didn't say what I could even use the API for.

  • by oblasco on 3/8/12, 10:22 AM

    For all the worries above, check http://protoapi.com instead :)

  • by mthreat on 3/8/12, 1:18 AM

    Hopefully constructive criticism here:

    I've looked around your site, and I'm still not sure what you offer. I've figured out that you offer APIs, but APIs that do what? Push messages (urban airship)? Search (indextank, searchify)? Geostuff? Video encoding (zencoder)?

    I could probably dig into the example libraries and figure it out, but if people don't figure out what you offer pretty quick, many will bail.