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Back in August 2019 I started to use RapidAPI.com for personal Open Innovation (Heroku hosted) API related side projects :
Everything You Always Wanted to know About API Monetization* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
I could not remember how many times my mom asked: "Why don't you get money on all the work you did on spare time ? All your homework did even not pay you a single coffee !" And then..
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These side projects helped me to learn a lot about API monetization... and pretty soon I started to dream about deploying that kind of technology at an Organizational Level, at OPT-NC.
π So we started to deliver public Docker images π
ποΈ Shopping for developers : the Marketplace
Finally we were ready to showcase APIs on our marketplace :
π Benefits
That helped us a lot to explain how :
- To monetize APIs
- Structure APIs endpoints and data to be ready for its cloud usage, since the beginning of the project
- APIs documentation can or should be released
- Drastically decrease Time To Market, especially on innovation projects
- To promote APIs with demos & interactive integrations
- Impact internal culture by showcasing around APIs with Spotlights
- Talking and promoting popularity and public availability and performances metrics
- Worldwide Testing strategy and Test Analytics plans
- Increase internal innovation speed in our own organization
π€΅ Iddo Gino (Founder and CEO)
πΊ Ido's interview
Listen to this short interview as it explains very clearly how API strategy matters and why any Digital Organization should feel concerned to develop its services in a very efficient way :
π°π° 2022, March : RapidAPI nabs $150M at a $1B valuation
"RapidAPI nabs $150M at a $1B valuation, with its API marketplace now used by 4M+ developers"
RapidAPI nabs $150M at a $1B valuation
RapidAPI API marketplace now used by 4M+ developers; nabs $150M.
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π° May, 2020 : RapidAPI raises $25M more
"RapidAPI raises $25M more to expand its API marketplace"
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Great article :
What You Need To Know Before Exposing Your APIs
Thereβs no doubt that APIs are at the core of any digital transformation, but thereβs still a lot you need to know about exposing your APIs.Β