Excited for the relaunch of API Changelog as a stand-alone business! I've known @bpedro since his Tarpipe days (an earlier attempt at something like Zapier meets Yahoo! Pipes). They've taken everything they've learned and poured it into a suite of tools for managing APIs and community.
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@chrismessina@bpedro This is great. Always wondered why API docs are not made keeping technical people in mind. A lot of non-tech people wanna use APIs to serve business needs but fail to do so because of the jargon involved.
@sarthakgh Thanks for your kind words, Sar! That's exactly why we're launching Hitch: to bring APIs to the greater, non-technical audience. Please keep sending any feedback. /cc @chrismessina
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@chrismessina@bpedro ditto! Couldn't have said it better myself. Genius team at work.
@svetlyak40wt Thanks for asking, that's a great question!
It's fully automated. We periodically read API machine-readable documentation and compare it with a previous version generating a changelog and notifying all the API followers.
What happens if an API doesn't have machine-readable documentation? We help them migrate to machine-readable and, in the meanwhile, we parse and generate differences from their HTML documentation.
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@bpedro I think, you need to build an enterprise self hosted version. It will be valuable in big companies with large amount of internal APIs.
@svetlyak40wt That's a great suggestion! Do you have any particular company in mind that would benefit from this product? Thanks!
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@bpedro I'm working at Yandex. We have a lot of APIs and libraries. Not sure how many of them are parsable by Hitch though. But for now I'm planning to deploy an internal version of my own pet-project, it is about changelogs too but not tied to APIs.
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API changes : a real problem. For the API supply chain. For integration. For trust.
Looking forward to see Hitch become the API credit rating agency.
#HitchIsTheNewFitch
@medjawii I know ;) That makes your comment even more valuable. Thanks!
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@bpedro The business model at the end of such "agency" was to sell SaaS/API insurance, coupled with API Terms of service Changelog support/advises and SLA guarantee. Go for Hitch now!
@jordiromero Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Jordi! We believe the community features really help API owners better understand their audience.
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You can't beat the combo of @bpedro and @LukeAM for knowing the API community and what it needs. Hitch sounds like the answer to a lot of the industry needs - I'm excited to give it a spin.
@lindybrandon@lukeam Thanks for the kind words, Lorinda! Please let us know if you have any comments or suggestions.
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I first met the founders when we were all working together at the same company. Their professional chemistry and passion for user, nay, developer experience is palpable. API Changelog filled a hole in the developer process and I know Hitch will fill in the rest, enabling companies of all sizes to build successful API communities.
@jkriggins Thank you so much, Jen! A lot of what we're doing is a result of the many conversations we've been having with you around APIs. Please keep sharing your ideas and feedback.
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