APIs For Fun And Profit

If APIs are “crack cocaine for developers,” as Mashery CEO Oren Michels told Jolie O’Dell of Mashable.com, then Michels is a dealer. His company specializes in creating and managing APIs for companies from Netflix and MTV Networks to Etsy and Cafe Press, and has recently published a survey on how developers use APIs.

Whether for fun as a side project or for serious profit as an entrepreneurial endeavor, developers love to use APIs (Application Programming Interface).

Mashable.com chatted with Michaels about best practices for monetization, strategies for building on someone else’s platform, how to survive in a rollercoaster-like ecosystem of third-party apps, and other topics of concern to API-happy developers.

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