shawnhooper,
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If you've built a SaaS that allows your clients to integrate with it via an API, I have one big request:

PLEASE give them a staging environment for testing their integration without having to buy another license (sometimes very expensive). Just include it.

astrovore,
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@shawnhooper recently we built a (very simple) integration with a third party via API. In order to test it we had to call them and then while they were on the phone they'd tell us if the requests we were making were having the desired effects. It was bonkers.

shawnhooper,
@shawnhooper@fosstodon.org avatar

@astrovore Ouch.

kevin,
@kevin@dice.camp avatar

@shawnhooper This is one of the most annoying things. Of course, all employers I've had didn't see the value in paying for that extra license so dev just had to suck it up somehow.

shawnhooper,
@shawnhooper@fosstodon.org avatar

@kevin It encourages cowboy coding.

But I also get it, with one of the vendors I have in mind, it would probably be an extra $5K a month.

Kudos to companies like Hubspot and Stripe who have done it right.

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