API Spotlight

What it does

We're highlighting some of our favorite APIs, via a visual resource guide, to help with creating and enhancing your API. Read about thoughtful features from awesome API companies that will improve user adoption and experience.

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  Highlight2021 · launchdarkly.com · ▲318

  See and act on your webapp's issues and interactions

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  Tool Guide2022 · ▲88

  Stack share for tools & plugins

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  Highlight2022 · launchdarkly.com · ▲285

  Understand and debug customer issues with confidence

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  Rich Media Push Notifications Guide2016 · ▲61

  Do users love push notifications?

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  Apiwatch2023 · ▲14

  Keep track of the APIs you use.

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  Design Base2021 · designbase.vercel.app · ▲81

  Curated design resources for developers

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  /dev/null▲482

  a social network for devs

  Dev tools · 2d ago · dev-null.sh

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  Whiteboard (YC W26) – an open-source IDE for thoughtful software design▲423

  open-source IDE for thoughtful software design. Contribute to devdotfast/whiteboard development by creating an account on GitHub.

  Dev tools · 27d ago · github.com

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  Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things▲411

  Contribute to reladraw/reladraw development by creating an account on GitHub.

  Dev tools · 25d ago · github.com

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  OpenBot▲362

  Grok Bot alternative: free, local, open-source, multiplayer

  Dev tools · 22d ago · openbot.run

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  Talanoa▲343

  Hi HN, I’m a fullstack developer, and honestly, I’ve lost count of how many side projects I’ve worked on over the years. But one idea kept coming back to me: a different kind of email client. It first came to me in 2014: “What if we could handle emails more like conversations?” Every year, I’d revisit this concept in my “Build Notes.” Ten years later, no one had built exactly what I had in mind — so I finally decided to do it myself. That’s how Talanoa was born. I wanted something focused on people, not timelines. I was tired of marking messages as unread just to remember to reply later, or…

  Dev tools · 20d ago · talanoa.email

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  CoreSpeed▲332

  One MCP for everything your agents need: apps, memory, tools

  Dev tools · 28d ago · corespeed.io

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  I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node▲1,072

  Life & fun · 2018 · bitbucket.org

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  Loom for Desktop▲671

  Powerful video recorder. Now on Desktop.

  Dev tools · 2018 · loom.com

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  Handsome Illustrations▲644

  Create unique illustrations for websites & applications.

  Dev tools · 2018 · craftwork.design

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  Retool▲640

  Hi all, founder @ Retool here. We initially launched Retool on HN five years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494. The feedback was extraordinarily helpful then (e.g. we launched source control, on-prem, etc. based on HN comments), and we’re grateful for all of it. Today, we’re excited to get HN’s thoughts on one of our new products: Retool Mobile. It lets you build and deploy mobile apps in minutes, not days. The idea is there is a large class of line-of-business mobile apps, and the process of getting a simple form + button on a mobile device, in a native app,…

  Dev tools · 2018 · retool.com

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  Pts.js – A library for visualization and creative coding▲611

  Pts is a javascript library for visualization and creative-coding.

  Dev tools · 2018 · ptsjs.org

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  Retool – build internal tools faster▲592

  Build, deploy, and manage internal tools with Retool's unified engine. Connect to any database, API, or LLM. Leverage AI throughout your business.

  AI · 2018 · tryretool.com