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BUILD FOR DEVELOPERS

Book about Application Developers as Customers in The API Economy

Jarkko Moilanen

Successful APIs focus on primary customer and apply developer-first product strategy. You will learn what kind of team and approach you'll need to craft APIs your customers will love. Book provides guidance towards successful Business to Developer marketing (B2D). Without proper B2D marketing your efforts have been in vain.

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Product and customer-centric approach with APIs will take you to success, but developer-centric will make you the industry leader

Audience

Dispite the fact that I love application developers, this book is written for business decision makers and marketing people in API Economy. After reading this you hopefully understand what your API consumers need and want to build best possible digital services. Successful APIs focus on primary customer and apply developer-first product strategy. You will learn what kind of team you'll need to craft APIs your customers will love. Book also provides guidance towards successful Business to Developer marketing (B2D). Without proper marketing your efforts have been in vain and waste of time and resources.

Three main topics

The book is built around three themes, each of which is one part of the book. The three themes are wrapped up in final Developer Portal focused concluding fourth part.

Part I - APIs as products

In the part one you'll learn why APIs should be seen as products and what it means in practice. We will use existing great productised APIs as examples to avoid purely theoretical viewpoint.

Chapters:

  • API provides access to value proposition
  • Beyond data APIs
  • Primary customer is developer
  • Key to success is multidisciplinary team
  • API Business Model patterns

Part II - Developer-first approach

In the second part we'll go through features and aspects on API development to focus on while keeping primary customer - application developer at the center. You will learn what kind of team you'll need to craft APIs your customers will love and why APIs mentioned in part I are successful.

Chapters:

  • Solve my problem!   
  • Developer eXperience
  • Embrace open source
  • I don't want to poll your API
  • Tools tools tools!
  • Easy self-service on-boarding
  • Sales & Support
  • Getting started vs detailed documentation

Part III - Business to Developer marketing

In the third part we'll guide you towards successful Business to Developer marketing (B2D). You'll learn how to get started and things to avoid. Without proper marketing your efforts have been in vain and waste of time and resources.

Chapters:

  • What is B2D?
  • Tone of voice and style in B2D
  • Developer advocacy
  • Developer Relations
  • Events and Channels

Part IV - Developer portal binds all together

All the topics discussed previously are wrapped up in separate concluding part about Developer portals.

Chapters:

  • Developer portals
  • First impression matters
  • Must have elements

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Jarkko Moilanen

Igniter and co-author of best-seller API Economy 101 ("API-talous 101") book in Finnish (soon to be translated to English). Read more (in Finnish) from https://apitalous101.fi, Tivi TOP100 ICT-influencer 2017 & 2018. Master of Social Sciences (innovations & hacker culture), PhD in information science (ecosystems).

Jarkko is leading API economy expert in Finland, experienced speaker at international events, long term API and open source community builder (API:Suomi) and passionate API Developer eXperience (APIOps) developer. Jarkko was leading APIs based value chain business and community development at APInf Oy during 2017.

Currently Jarkko is leading APIs driven Platform of Trust Developer Program. Responsibilities include development of platform Developer eXperience, portal development and community relations.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

Defending your civil liberties in a digital world.

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From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990—well before the Internet was on most people's radar—and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.

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