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Hitch — Where developers stay informed of API changes & discussion
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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.
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.
@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.
@chrismessina Thanks, Chris! I really appreciate all the input you've been giving us since the Tarpipe days :-).
@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
@andr3 Thanks a lot, André! Please let us know if you have any comments or suggestions. /cc @chrismessina
@anant_garg Hi Anant. Thanks for the feedback. We're addressing that issue right now and will update here shortly.
@anant_garg Hi again, Anant. The issue has now been fixed. Please let me know if you're still having difficulties signing up. Thank you so much for your great feedback!
@bpedro Sure! Just thought I'd let you know. Also your API list has some dummy entries at the bottom.
@anant_garg Thanks again! We're not yet filtering the API list but we'll do it soon. BTW, is there any kind of filter you'd like to see there?
@thetonyblank Thank you so much, Tony! Your feedback is much appreciated so please don't be shy ;)
@acpmasquerade Thanks for the feedback, Dhruba! Can you be more specific about the error you're seeing. You can contact me directly on bpedro@hitchhq.com. Thank you so much!
Great product! I already liked API Changelog (brilliantly simple) and the new community and management features make it just a must.
@jordiromero Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Jordi! We believe the community features really help API owners better understand their audience.
How does it work? Is it automatic or API developer should create new releases as with GitHub Releases?
@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.
@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!
@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.
Have been using programmeable web for years now and have also been getting weekly updates on apis i follow, what makes this different or special from programable web
@basictechy That's a great question, Andrew! Thanks for reaching out.
The main difference is that we actually track any changes on API documentation (HTML and also machine-readable) and will notify you whenever there's a change.
Other differences include our ability to use Swagger, RAML and WSDL and automatically render a nice looking API Reference.
I invite you to take a look at Slack's API on Hitch and see these different features in action: https://www.hitchhq.com/slack
Thanks again and please don't hesitate to share any feedback.
so many API's nice. am in love with it already. another site to bookmark. hey would love to keep track of api.ai
@lindybrandon @lukeam Thanks for the kind words, Lorinda! Please let us know if you have any comments or suggestions.
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 That's a great comparison, Mehdi! Being able to fulfill that would make us all very proud. Thanks for your valuable input.
@bpedro I know some modest minds who tried to solve it too. http://www.programmableweb.com/n...
You have all my support!
@bpedro you should also check with @adamd with its new initiatives as everydeveloper.com and http://www.docstocode.com/
@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!
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