AirPair Partners w 20+ startups for Instant API Integration Help

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/03/airpair-api-partnerships/

by jkresner • 12 years ago

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jkresner2• 12 years ago

Announcement details and partners list => http://airpa.ir/api-partners

A survey on Api usage we're doing today => http://airpa.ir/2014-q1-api-survey

songzme• 12 years ago

At TokBox, we get many requests for help integrating our API to add live video chat into existing products. I think that AirPair's expert integration will be a great resource to offload some of that work to our community who are already familiar with our platform.

aerosmile7• 12 years ago

It's also a great way to endorse the community developers who you know are top-notch and have worked hard to establish themselves as leaders in your community.

shiftb• 12 years ago

Great list of partners. I wonder if those companies will be seeding experts with their employees or if they're actually reaching out to their own communities?

jkresner2• 12 years ago

The mature companies all have experts from their eco-systems, the younger one's that want more customer interaction and development have put in-house members forward.

aerosmile7• 12 years ago

The point of the program is to empower the most distinguished developers in the partners' communities, so our preference is to work with community experts.

raywu• 12 years ago

Is this sort of like, One API rule them all?

Does AirPair offer SDK for apps integration?

aerosmile7• 12 years ago

We're currently focused on just building the best network of experts. Developing products to streamline the help of our experts will be a part of stage 2 (great suggestion btw!!).

dnsbty• 12 years ago

This is awesome news. Even though most of the APIs are really well documented, AirPair would be very useful for getting help with fixing those little bugs with integration that can take hours to figure out. I would have loved something like this when I was working on a project with Twitter's API a couple months ago.

aerosmile7• 12 years ago

Great feedback - sounds like Twitter would be a great partner as well.

joemellin• 12 years ago

Looks cool! Would be interesting to see what the average request is for / which api has the highest demand for help.

I wonder if the companies would put some cash in to subsidize the starting of integration. Like first hour free.

aerosmile7• 12 years ago

The most popular API request right now is Stripe. I find this interesting, since their API is one of the best documented ones out there. It's just a reflection of how high in demand they are.

ironchef253• 12 years ago

With so many APIs...the company with the best DUX will win more developers. Offering services like this cant hurt.

aerosmile7• 12 years ago

Yep, we hope that we can contribute to the popularity of our partners' APIs by helping them establish a healthy developer ecosystem and empower their developers to build businesses on top of those APIs.

mrmch• 12 years ago

We're (sendwithus.com) proud to be a partner -- I think this is really huge, having implemented many of these API's before. Just knowing what's possible with a product/API can be difficult, and pulling in an outside expert can really help at that.

I think it's also a really awesome way for a startup like us to test if there's value in us having services that share our subject matter expertise.

aerosmile7• 12 years ago

Glad to be working together!

AirPair Partners w 20+ startups for Instant API Integration Help

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