In my journey as an API product manager, I have realized how little of the product management guidance that is out there serves API product managers. Check out my chat with ’s as we dive into the challenges of building API products
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| ex Twilio, Paypal | APIs | Fintech | Analytics | Mental Health | Women in tech Deepa Goyal’s Tweets
I may not always have the right solution. Sometimes all i have is a framework that might hopefully lead us to one of the right solutions.
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Something i slept on for a long time but now I can’t live without: hot sauce.
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🥇 The Top Application Utility of 2022:
👩🚀 🚀
stackshare.io/posts/top-deve
#StackShareAwards #postman
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Eating tandoori chicken is my favorite stress buster. Happy Friday my friends!
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Someone i know was speaking to a recruiter at Amazon and during the call the recruiter’s account was suspended: the recruiter had been laid off.
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Influence is not measurable, authority, ownership and accountability are.
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Thinking about question such as how many bullet points is too many bullet points becomes very important when you start to think about organizing and presenting large amounts of information, in API documentation for example.
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Is there an ideal number of items in a list? Actually, yes. Research has shown that the average human can hold about 7 items in their working memory at a time, plus or minus 2. By limiting the number of items, information is easier to process and retain.
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All lists should have a default limit of 8 items max., all kinds of lists. If you have 9 or more items in a list, this is an information structure problem.
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NYT did some data mining and analytics of Elon Musk’s twitter profile and tweet activity. Using the twitter API properly… it’s probably why the account is now private and the API is now paid.
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This one will be interesting to watch! I cannot help but thinking that making #API access paid either will not be a significant source of revenue, or it will become prohibitively expensive for too many, shrinking the size of the ecosystem. How will it end?
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Excited about sharing some updates from Postman in 2023! Thread below:
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Wait? I hired you cause you said you knew what you were doing. I don't know what I am doing!!
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All lists should have a default limit of 8 items max., all kinds of lists. If you have 9 or more items in a list, this is an information structure problem.
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We're excited to announce our latest product and versioning #updates! 🎉 From simplifying #onboarding and first-user experiences to extension, we’ve got lots to share with you. Read more from Postman Co-founder and CEO here:
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Too Many Acronyms (TMA)
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If points don't correlate well with time, I have two questions:
1. What the hell are they?
2. What the hell are they good for?
P.S. If they don't correlate with time, you're doing it wrong. If in fact you've ever really used them at all.
I don't recommend them, but they work.
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“Over 100 labs for developing apps using 5G services will be set up in engineering institutions to realise the new range of opportunities, business models, and employment potential," Sitharaman said.
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Listening to india’s budget 2023-24 : what does “apps for 5G” mean? Don’t the same apps work for 5G that work for everything else? Quote from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in thread.
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how do you know when you’ve picked the wrong tech stack for a project?
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If your audience are people who worked at AWS, you are required to use the word “flywheel”.
I don’t make the rules 🤷♂️
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If you were to anthropomorphize ChatGPT what would it look like?
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Is there a difference between SMB and SME? Is one term preferred over another?
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Getting set up to play with a mini SE drone.
step one: attach your phone to controller.
⚠️Fail⚠️
Phone too big lol
I’m a pro max kinda gal 😂
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Often in hard times, companies look for the "next" breakthrough or idea that will help them survive.
But in hardest times, the "core" saves you. It is worth finding your core product.. core idea..core differentiation and double down on it..rather than going outside of it.
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Google books API is also one of my favorite beginner APIs to play with. You can do some web scraping or just observe the contrast of what you see on a book’s page vs the API response for the same book.
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Explore ’s collection to get a hang of how APIs are discovered & explored by developers, sometimes without the documentation at all and simply starting with a postman collection. Shoutout to for the awesome video.
developer.paypal.com/api/rest/postm
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Follow ’s quickstart guide to creating a subscription. It is a great beginner project for someone getting started with APIs. It allows you to understand how simple business process translates to an API integration.
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You can also build a simple SMS app with Studio. Building one with functions (code) and one with studio (drag-and-drop interface) gives you a good context of how you can design products that enable developers differently.
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Build a simple SMS app with Serverless functions and assets with step-by-step guide here. Once you are set up you can try to evolve your app to do more things. twilio.com/docs/serverles
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API for beginners by is one of my all time favorite starter video that i recommend to all people getting into APIs.
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Product managers new to API product management often ask me how they can get started with APIs. In this thread, I’m going to start posting resources you can use as beginners to get started with APIs.
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Design strategy != Biz strategy
For the business, design is *strategic* but not *strategy*. How you get to the design, doesn't matter.
Strategy is determining which direction to go in. Design has a tiny part in that, if any
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As product managers, we sometimes are guilty of over-analyzing our problems.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for iterative discovery.
But there's something to be said for the problems that are simple enough to be solved with the first thing that comes to mind.
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