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fadesibert | 3 years ago

Some questions come to mind after poking around the catalogue (having worked in an enterprise that ended up with many API catalogues, and now many APIs in startup land, I get the pain point).

- What's the difference between currency and forex? They look to be serving the same case, but in different ways, without reference to one another - challenging the implied claim to "this is the best way to X"

- payments. Stripe/... integration into any moderately saas business is a ball-ache. Current "subscription management" services are woefully, laughably inadequate . If you had a /pay endpoint, where I could offload payments, I would have been quite happy indeed - email. Needs better documentation. When sending an email through this interface, is there impersonation? Or is it "me@mine.com <someemailservice@someintermediary.foo.bar>"

Neat idea - the enterprise survivor in me wishes you success

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asim|3 years ago

Thanks for your response and questions. On the point of payments. Yes would love to do this for payments. We've abstracted away stripe in this way internally but offering it to everyone is more of a question of how to do it right. Do people want to use their own stripe account? If not do they want us to manage their payout details and customers? It's worth doing but only if we can do it right.

On currency vs Forex. The Forex service is more for those needing trading data, that's what it is. The currency service is more generally useful for providing currency conversion in your website or app or that's how I think of it.