Ask HN: What APIs do you use the most?

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I love using AwGo library (https://github.com/deanishe/awgo) to make Alfred workflows in Go.

Wrote an article about how to write Alfred workflows in Go too here: https://medium.com/@NikitaVoloboev/writing-alfred-workflows-...

POSIX

For https://MoonlightWork.com:

- Segment (backend event tracking and frontend management of things such as Google analytics)

- Intercom (frontend customer chat)

- Stripe (payments)

- Slack (we use the Api to correspond chat users with user accounts, and to create private channels for ongoing jobs)

- Sentry (error tracking with lots of additional information)

- Kubernetes (local and production application hosting setup)

- Contentful (CMS for our blog)

- Imgix (CDN that resizes photos on the fly - which we use for profile photos and logos)

.net's System.Web and System.IO. Most of the code I write seems to use them somewhere. They're quite old, and not particularly well factored by modern standards, but I like their straightforwardness.

An internal API that I truly hate because of how poorly written it is. I’m probably going to rewrite it and quit.

Social Login APIs such as the FB api for apps I've published

POSIX, stdlib

Not the most, but pretty important for me: Purchasing Power Parity [0]

- [0] https://github.com/rwieruch/purchasing-power-parity

AWS SDK

For https://ably.io (Ably Realtime)

- Stripe (payments)

- PipeDrive & Intercom (CRM integration)

- Zapier (some automation between systems)

- Rollbar & Sentry (error tracking)

- AWS S3 (file storage)

- AWS Route53 & CloudFlare (DNS)

- AWS EC2 APIs (Infrastructure provisioning)

- AddSearch (search)

- Freshdesk (tickets)

- Sendgrid (email)

- Google Recaptha (captcha)

- APILayer (tax)

- Monitis & Uptrends (monitoring)

- Browserstack (browser automation)

We use 100s of services (https://blog.ably.io/94-tools-you-need-to-grow-your-startup-...), but I've only listed the key services where we integrate with their APIs.