florianmartens
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Comment · 1 year ago
Nice. This is interesting and maybe I can connect this with pipe0.com to add emails, phone numbers, etc.
Comment · 1 year ago
The value of clay is is not its code base IMO. Clay connects many providers that each have licenses starting around $100-150/mo. Even if you open source your solution, users would still have to purchase subscriptions individually, manage their usage, etc. This can get expensive quickly. On top, it takes time and is annoying. Lastly, there's complexity to self-hosting the AI and web scraping stuff. I'm unsure if there are many GTM teams willing to put up with hosting this themselves.
Fun fact, you can actually rebuild the entire core functionality of clay using https://pipe0.com with ~1000 lines of code.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this. I'm building https://api-fiddle.com and need to have this on the map as a potential default format for the editor.
Comment · 2 years ago
Try api-fiddle.com as a replacement for stoplight.io :)
Comment · 2 years ago
I've bookmarked your blog and will follow along to see what kind of solution you come up with in the end :)
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah, I think even if you are fairly technical it's still pretty hard to manage a growing OpenAPI doc that is good enough to generate clients, sdks and docs from it.
I think that we'll soon be able to help you generate mock clients as well. Probably by generating a first pass with AI and letting you adjust the details manually. This way it could be one-click.
Comment · 2 years ago
That's really cool. We're on a similar path with https://api-fiddle.com
We're trying to build the best tool out there for team that want to build api-first and speed up development and code generation this way.
I'm happy you wrote this article!
Here are a few questions for you: - Do you think the mock API is the best way to get Feedback from stakeholders? - How do you merge your changed OpenAPI document into your master documentation when it's time for prod? - How do you share your draft contract with e.g. a frontend engineer so they can get started building the UI?