Shawn Fanning I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly. – Shawn Fanning
Nir Eyal We originally started AdNectar to serve brand advertisers, but we’ve now found that our publishers are greatly benefiting from integrating our system. In addition to a new revenue source and the data our API provides, it turns out users actually prefer branded over generic virtual items. – Nir Eyal
Naval Ravikant People think about Bitcoin incorrectly. They think about it as currency or about gold or hoarding, speculation, about how much money do you make. When really, what it is is an API for programmable cash transactions. – Naval Ravikant
Naval Ravikant Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more. – Naval Ravikant
Miguel de Icaza With .NET once an API is published it’s available to all programming languages at the same time. – Miguel de Icaza
FamousPavel Durov VK is famous for its competitions among third-party developers who build alternative versions of VK on its open API. – Pavel Durov