APIs are fun to tinker with while learning and can also save you huge amounts of time while building new products or features.
Here are some I found last week, with some ideas of how you could use them
Bannerbear - This API lets you generate unlimited variations of images & videos based on templates you designed ahead of time. There are so many ways you could use this to streamline design processes, such as automating OG images on a blog or e-commerce site, but what’s more interesting to me is that there are whole products that can be built with this.
For example, it could be used to create a Chrome extension that lets people easily generate quote images to share on Instagram while they browse the web. The new video API is also super interesting and I’m sure there are loads of use cases I haven’t even thought of.
Waitlist API - This simple API does what it says on the tin. It makes it easy to create a waitlist with a referral system, so you can create some buzz about a product or feature before launching. It handles the leaderboard/referral link type stuff so you can get your waiting list up and running without having to re-invent the wheel.
Oil Price API - Another API that does what it says on the tin - it gives you live & historical oil prices. You can use this to set Oil price alerts or look for patterns between oil price fluctuations and changes in other data sets (Crypto, Flight prices, etc).
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Thanks for mentioning us, Ramy!