Ask HN: What APIs do you use the most?

[philip1209]

For https://MoonlightWork.com:

- Segment (backend event tracking and frontend management of things such as Google analytics)

- Intercom (frontend customer chat)

- Stripe (payments)

- Slack (we use the Api to correspond chat users with user accounts, and to create private channels for ongoing jobs)

- Sentry (error tracking with lots of additional information)

- Kubernetes (local and production application hosting setup)

- Contentful (CMS for our blog)

- Imgix (CDN that resizes photos on the fly - which we use for profile photos and logos)

[jonathan-kosgei]

We use a lot of the same stack. I particularly love imgix and stripe.

[rwieruch]

Not the most, but pretty important for me: Purchasing Power Parity [0]

- [0] https://github.com/rwieruch/purchasing-power-parity

[CameronNemo]

Are VPNs able to skirt this?

[nikivi]

I love using AwGo library (https://github.com/deanishe/awgo) to make Alfred workflows in Go.

Wrote an article about how to write Alfred workflows in Go too here: https://medium.com/@NikitaVoloboev/writing-alfred-workflows-...

[gregthompsonjr]

An internal API that I truly hate because of how poorly written it is. I’m probably going to rewrite it and quit.

[mrfredward]

This made my day.

[matt_oriordan]

For https://ably.io (Ably Realtime)

- Stripe (payments)

- PipeDrive & Intercom (CRM integration)

- Zapier (some automation between systems)

- Rollbar & Sentry (error tracking)

- AWS S3 (file storage)

- AWS Route53 & CloudFlare (DNS)

- AWS EC2 APIs (Infrastructure provisioning)

- AddSearch (search)

- Freshdesk (tickets)

- Sendgrid (email)

- Google Recaptha (captcha)

- APILayer (tax)

- Monitis & Uptrends (monitoring)

- Browserstack (browser automation)

We use 100s of services (https://blog.ably.io/94-tools-you-need-to-grow-your-startup-...), but I've only listed the key services where we integrate with their APIs.

[jonathan-kosgei]

You use vatlayer.com?

[andyjohnson0]

.net's System.Web and System.IO. Most of the code I write seems to use them somewhere. They're quite old, and not particularly well factored by modern standards, but I like their straightforwardness.

[silentOpen]

POSIX

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Heh. Especially true if we allow indirect to count, since I'll bet the vast majority of the web APIs upthread are hosted on *nix.

[segmondy]

POSIX, stdlib

[forkLding]

Social Login APIs such as the FB api for apps I've published

[syntheticcdo]

AWS SDK