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You have a routing project on your desk. Pickups, containers, invoices: the operational data a hauler runs on. You open the Waste Management vertical on apis.io expecting a field of options, and the page opens with a number that looks…
@apisio · · 3 min read
A short piece of fiction, written by API Evangelist. The reader is imagined; the post, and every number and quotation from it, is real: "Lint An Agent Skill Before You Hand It To An Agent," Kin Lane, November 10, 2026,…
@apievangelist · · 3 min read
A short piece of fiction, written by API Evangelist. The reader is imagined; the post, and every number and quotation from it, is real: "934 Conformant A2A Agent Cards, And Who Is Publishing Them," Kin Lane, November 10, 2026, https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/10/934-conformant-a2a-agent-cards-and-who-is-publishing-them/…
@apievangelist · · 2 min read
A short piece of fiction, written by API Evangelist. The reader is imagined; the post, and every number and quotation from it, is real: "GitHub vs GitLab: What Each Costs, and What Its APIs Let You Build," Kin Lane, November…
@apievangelist · · 2 min read
You are a security engineer with a mandate and a deadline. Your team needs to wire a threat intelligence feed into your detection pipeline, the shortlist has two names on it, and your manager has asked a fair question: is…
@apisio · · 3 min read
A short piece of fiction, written by API Evangelist. The reader is imagined; the post, and every number and quotation from it, is real: "Scan A Whole Sector Before You Trust Your Sense Of It," Kin Lane, November 10, 2026,…
@apievangelist · · 2 min read
You run research operations at a mid-sized company, and this week someone senior asks a simple question: can we let AI agents handle our market research through MCP? You don't want to give a hand-wavy answer. You want to know…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You are building a shortlist of Nordic APIs for a payments and transport project, and you want to know who is actually worth calling. So you open the Nordics region on apis.io. It covers Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland,…
@apisio · · 3 min read
Picture yourself on a Tuesday afternoon, looking at a support queue that needs sorting. Tickets come in, and someone has to decide whether each one is a bug, a feature request, or a question. You would like a model to…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You are in a planning meeting, and someone says, "We need an API gateway." Three people nod. You suspect they are picturing three different things. One means a front door for partners to find and subscribe to your APIs. One…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You are building a support-ticket triage service, and you have decided to ask TypeSafe's Jev the questions rather than write your own classifier. You also work in Protobuf, so you wonder whether the questions you put to a model can…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You are three weeks into a tabletop campaign that has outgrown your notes. You have a folder of half-finished chapters, a public domain ghost story you love, and a vague idea that an agent could help you turn all of…
@apisio · · 3 min read
A short piece of fiction, written by API Evangelist. The reader is imagined; the post, and every number and quotation from it, is real: "The Technical Side Translated. The Business Side Did Not.," Kin Lane, November 10, 2026, https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/10/the-technical-side-translated-the-business-side-did-not/ Marisol…
@apievangelist · · 2 min read
Say you are wiring up notifications for your product. You search Knock's API for the call that fires a workflow, and you find two that look identical. One is POST /v1/notify. The other is POST /v1/workflows/{key}/trigger. Both are summarized as…
@apisio · · 3 min read
Say you are building something that watches how a building uses power and shifts that use when prices move. You need meter data, tariff feeds, weather inputs and a way to talk to devices. So you open the Energy &…
@apisio · · 3 min read
A short piece of fiction, written by API Evangelist. The reader is imagined; the post, and every number and quotation from it, is real: "Insurance: A Bundle Without The Shape Behind The Login," Kin Lane, November 10, 2026, https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/10/insurance-a-bundle-without-the-shape-behind-the-login/ Marisol…
@apievangelist · · 3 min read
A short piece of fiction, written by API Evangelist. The reader is imagined; the post, and every number and quotation from it, is real: "Designing For The Agentic Experience at Nordic APIs," Kin Lane, November 10, 2026, https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/10/designing-for-the-agentic-experience-at-nordic-apis/ Marit wrote…
@apievangelist · · 2 min read
A short piece of fiction, written by API Evangelist. The reader is imagined; the post, and every number and quotation from it, is real: "Extending The Business Capability Model For The API Economy," Kin Lane, November 9, 2026, https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/09/extending-the-business-capability-model-for-the-api-economy/ Dara…
@apievangelist · · 3 min read
A short piece of fiction, written by API Evangelist. The reader is imagined; the post, and every number and quotation from it, is real: "Measure How Far A Standards Body Actually Got And What Nobody Measured," Kin Lane, November 9,…
@apievangelist · · 3 min read
A short piece of fiction, written by API Evangelist. The reader is imagined; the post, and every number and quotation from it, is real: "Consistent But Wrong," Kin Lane, November 9, 2026, https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/09/consistent-but-wrong/ Marisol builds the intake tooling for a…
@apievangelist · · 3 min read
You are on call, and a product manager asks you to let an agent handle the rollout of a new checkout flow. The plan is simple: turn a feature flag on for a slice of users, watch the numbers, and…
@apisio · · 3 min read
A short piece of fiction, written by API Evangelist. The reader is imagined; the post, and every number and quotation from it, is real: "How The Specifications Relate," Kin Lane, November 9, 2026, https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/09/how-the-specifications-relate/ Marisol read the post on a…
@apievangelist · · 2 min read
You are building the part of a security product that turns dark web data into alerts. A new PHP flaw has just landed, your team wants a feed that tells customers when someone is talking about it, and you are…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You are halfway through a planning meeting, and the question on the table is simple: how do we manage versions across our API estate? Someone says there must be a whole market for this. You open the Versioning area on…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You are three weeks from shipping search over a pile of scientific abstracts, and the question on your desk is whether to bolt a reranker onto your BM25 results. Someone on your team has forwarded a benchmark post from LiteLLM,…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You are two days from shipping the signup flow for a cross-border payments product. Before any customer can move money, they have to get through KYC or KYB, and you have been asked to pick how that happens. Sending people…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You are a platform engineer who has just been told to find out whether the AI gateway your team runs beside your API gateway can be retired. Two gateways, two sets of policy, two places to check authentication, two dashboards.…
@apisio · · 3 min read
Picture this. You've been handed a project: build voyage and fleet tooling. You need vessel positions, ocean weather, maybe booking events from a big container line. Naturally you open the APIs.io Maritime industry page, and the first number looks reassuring:…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You have a computer-use agent on the whiteboard and a finance lead asking one question: what is the worst this can cost us if it goes wrong? Most agent platforms give you a vague answer and a usage dashboard. So…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You are comparing two APIs that do the same job. Specs look similar, pricing is close, and the one thing that would settle it is which provider promises to stay up. So you go looking for a service level document,…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You run support triage for a small product team, and you have a routing job that sends each incoming ticket to billing or technical. Today you read that RouterPlex, a gateway you already use, has put Cloudflare's new decision models…
@apisio · · 3 min read
A short piece of fiction, written by API Evangelist. The reader is imagined; the post, and every number and quotation from it, is real: "Benchmark Your APIs Against Competitors You Did Not Know Were Looking," Kin Lane, November 9, 2026,…
@apievangelist · · 3 min read
A short piece of fiction, written by API Evangelist. The reader is imagined; the post, and every number and quotation from it, is real: "Talking The AI Talk Without Walking The AI Walk," Kin Lane, November 9, 2026, https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/09/talking-the-ai-talk-without-walking-the-ai-walk/ Marisol…
@apievangelist · · 3 min read
You are putting together a quick brief on a venture portfolio, and you land on the Founders Fund page in the APIs.io catalog. The header gives you a clean number: 63 portfolio companies, and "63 publish APIs here." You are…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You have a workload to run and a deadline, and you have just opened the Semiconductors & Hardware vertical on apis.io expecting to find the companies that make the silicon. It is one of the deepest verticals in the catalog,…
@apisio · · 3 min read
Picture it: you're wiring up payouts. Your code calls POST /accounts/{accountID}/transfers, gets back a 2xx, marks the payout as done, and moves on. Then a slow response makes your retry logic fire, and you start wondering whether you just sent…
@apisio · · 3 min read
Say you are reviewing an OpenAPI file for a vendor integration. Halfway down, an operation carries an x- key you have never seen. It looks useful. You could build a small piece of tooling around it. Before you do, you…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You are about to hand an agent a budget. It will find services, call them, and pay for each call itself. You have heard that x402 is the protocol for this, and you want to know which providers in that…
@apisio · · 3 min read
A short piece of fiction, written by API Evangelist. The reader is imagined; the post, and every number and quotation from it, is real: "HubSpot vs Salesforce: What Each Costs And What Its APIs Let You Build," Kin Lane, November…
@apievangelist · · 3 min read
You are a developer with a deadline. Your team needs to pull account data from customers' banks, and someone in a meeting told you the APIs.io catalog has a page for exactly this. You open Open Banking & Account Data,…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You are the engineer who has just been told to let an agent schedule lab work. A patient needs a test, the agent orders it, then books someone to draw blood at home. Your first question is the one that…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You work at a small charity, and your director has asked you to find out which APIs are worth building on for accepting donations. You open the Nonprofit & Social Impact vertical on APIs.io, sort by score, and start reading…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You are sketching a new product on a Saturday morning. It might be a fitness tracker, it might be a small CRM. You have a list of things to wire in before you write a single feature: crash reporting, sign-in,…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You're on call for a service that listens to a payment provider's webhooks. At 3am your endpoint is down for a few minutes during a deploy. One event, an order confirmation, never arrives. In the morning a customer writes in,…
@apisio · · 3 min read
You are about to let an agent run your A/B tests. It will start an experiment, check the results, and maybe conclude it. Before you hand over the keys, you open the OpenAPI contract for Statsig's Experiments API and start…
@apisio · · 3 min read
A short piece of fiction, written by API Evangelist. The reader is imagined; the post, and every number and quotation from it, is real: "OpenAI API Pricing: What Every Model Costs Per Million Tokens," Kin Lane, November 6, 2026, https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/06/openai-api-pricing-what-every-model-costs-per-million-tokens/…
@apievangelist · · 2 min read
You run developer relations at a company that sells authentication. Last week a prospect asked you a simple question: can an AI agent register with your API, get a token, and act on a user's behalf? You said yes, and…
@apisio · · 4 min read
A short piece of fiction, written by API Evangelist. The reader is imagined; the post, and every number and quotation from it, is real: "Agents Will Not Look For An SDK Generator, They Will Look For A Problem To Solve,"…
@apievangelist · · 2 min read
A short piece of fiction, written by API Evangelist. The reader is imagined; the post, and every number and quotation from it, is real: "Rethinking The API Free Tier In The Agentic Age," Kin Lane, November 6, 2026, https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/06/rethinking-the-api-free-tier-in-the-agentic-age/ Marisol…
@apievangelist · · 2 min read
You are building a scheduling feature. A customer in Kathmandu books a call with a colleague who is in a place where daylight saving time just changed, and your code stores a zone name and does arithmetic from there. The…
@apisio · · 3 min read