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0 pointsneilk12y ago0 comments

Better. That's practically the only thing that needs to be on the home page.

You also need to explain who you are and why you're doing this, too. Right now it looks like you have an interest in selling something but you never explain what it is. It reminds me a lot of those sites which sell some miracle product, and are deliberately very long and vague, and it ends finally with some button to order an ebook or something.

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yajoe12y ago

At the bottom of the page I saw:

> An initiative by Zapier 2013.

Zapier is a company that makes money off sites having REST endpoints to push and pull data. It looks like Zapier would prefer that more sites have endpoints to accept push, and this marketing effort is a brand-campaign (think Public Service Announcement) to get more people to tailor their products to work with Zapier.

That explains why more emphasis was put on marketing, etc. The primary audience is not developers but PHBs and PMs to have sound bytes to parrot to developers.

(I'm not cynical, I work in advertising, most of my products already have 'REST hooks'...)

jqueryin12y ago

As I read through the website, I felt mislead by the title "REST Hooks - Stop the polling madness" in that I believed we were talking directly about reducing something like AJAX long polling for an alternative means of retrieving data from the backend.

Having felt that pain before, and not opting for WebSockets yet, I was hoping for some kind of simple alternative. I have a portion of code that occurs during a registration process that is currently polling the backend for status updates as to the worker queue's progress (it's a lengthy registration with several moving pieces and calls to multiple remote APIs).

IanCal12y ago

Try playing with WebSockets, they're pretty easy to get going. Is there something about them keeping you away? Or would it require quite a re-architecture?

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johnny2212y ago

server sent events? although they are push only. I can't tell if you also want write capabilities

bryanh12y ago

Bingo!

bryanh12y ago

Good point. For us (Zapier), we just waste a lot of time and resources polling. We talked to some of the SaaS services we integrate with and it is the same on their side as well. That is our motivation.

neilkOP12y ago

Great - if you're just up front about that I would read this.

Then again if I'm not the audience, well, I guess you know what you're doing.

logvol12y ago

Ditto.

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yajoe12y ago

At the bottom of the page I saw:

> An initiative by Zapier 2013.

That explains why more emphasis was put on marketing, etc. The primary audience is not developers but PHBs and PMs to have sound bytes to parrot to developers.

(I'm not cynical, I work in advertising, most of my products already have 'REST hooks'...)

jqueryin12y ago

IanCal12y ago

Try playing with WebSockets, they're pretty easy to get going. Is there something about them keeping you away? Or would it require quite a re-architecture?

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johnny2212y ago

server sent events? although they are push only. I can't tell if you also want write capabilities

bryanh12y ago

Bingo!

bryanh12y ago

neilkOP12y ago

Great - if you're just up front about that I would read this.

Then again if I'm not the audience, well, I guess you know what you're doing.

logvol12y ago

Ditto.

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