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Open APIs for fun and profit

Open APIs for fun and profit

Why having an Open API? Companies are exposing their valuable data as APIs, and – if done right – developers love to make use of them. What are best practices for creating new customer reach, unlocking innovation, and business value in such ways? What does it mean to be ubiquitous for a company, and why would developers onboard?

Andreas Amsler

June 14, 2016
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  1. • Business Developer & Product Owner at Liip.ch • Focused

    on Open Data and Open APIs • I clarify needs. Set priorities. Support the build & make a difference • Founding board member of Opendata.ch
  2. Jeff Bezos (initial e-mail about API): • All teams will

    henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces. • Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces. • All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions. (as remembered by Steve Yegge)
  3. 2007 2008 2009 BT orange gop.gov c|net The New York

    Times TESCO MTV guardian.co.uk Etsy
  4. What are the secrets of an OpenAPI? • Lower the

    barrier for externals to understand and code with your API • Don’t design an API around your business, but around your consumers’ needs • If you want people to use your API, it needs to be usable. Benoît Pointet, https://blog.liip.ch/archive/2015/05/11/the-user-experience-of-apis.html
  5. … and iterate together with your users. James Victore quoted

    by Darja Gartner, https://twitter.com/andreasamsler/status/609371627378339840