apimetrics at&t hackathon slides april 24 2015

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Hackathons and APIsOr

Getting Your App to Do Something

David O’Neill | [email protected] | +1 206 972 1140

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APIs – Interaction and Frustration…• Getting your app to do something interesting

probably means using APIs• There are LOTS of APIs• No, really there are


Where to start?

… at the beginning.

If you intend to have external services working, or use APIs – start early, don’t leave it until 5pm Saturday or you’re get as far as this train….


You need to get from A to B

Or from this

To this…


How can we help?

• APImetrics – We monitor APIs and make them easy to use

• What we have• A library of sample API calls for many of the popular services

like• Facebook• Twitter• Tumblr• Instagram and more

• Our API library also has examples of what the call will look like in a variety of languages for you to cut and paste

• Time for a demo…


DEMO TIME!


Other help….

AT&T API Status Board – so you can sanity check if it’s you or them

http://apimetrics.io/att-developer-api-status

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http://apimetrics.io/att-developer-api-status/




What we’re offering

• Prize to the first team to make a successful API call using APImetrics that:• Uses Oauth• Isn’t already in our database ‘Community Report’

• In addition to the prize, you’ll get a year of Pro Service for FREE! Worth $1,800

• Next 5 runners up get Developer Accounts

• This is against the clock… and we’ll use the timestamps of a successful HTTP 200 code logged in our database


Finally, Top Tips for Hacks

Don’t leave your APIs to Saturday eveningPick them, get them workingPrototype early onBuild your app around them

Here’s a puppy – they help me relax

Have fun!


David O’Neill | +1 206 972 1140 | [email protected]

http://apimetrics.io

apimetrics at&t hackathon slides april 24 2015

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