Would you like to find the best website to showcase your software? Or rather… the best place to display your API? Well, if that’s the case, we have an excellent API marketplace for you! If you are interested (and we think you surely will be), in this post we will provide you with all the information you require.
An API is a middleware that sits between two applications and allows them to communicate using predefined rules. In practice, APIs are typically used to allow client-side applications to access an otherwise protected database. At a high level, APIs simply establish communication between two applications. They can’t communicate directly, as they don’t have access to each other’s code, so they have to run a cable between them and send signals over the line. The API defines how those signals should be sent. Almost every application running on your computer uses an API of some sort to communicate with thousands of other things. In practice, the term “API” is commonly used to refer to web-based APIs that form the link between the server and the client or between the server and a back-end service.
Most major tech companies have publicly available APIs and extensive documentation on the structure and how their API is used. The APIs are fairly standardized. They will almost always be accessible via HTTP and typically return JSON data, which means that any programming language that can make HTTP requests and decode JSON can talk to the API and get data from it.
But selling such software is not an easy task. Above all, if we take into account that gigantic companies like Google take all the clients with their APIs. That is why this Zyla API Hub, marketplace was born.
The Zyla API Hub service will help you showcase your software, or rather, your API!
For brands and companies, it has become essential to be able to sell and set up a digital store, hence the rise of digital marketing and being able to spread the word. Although, it is not necessary to have your website or platform to do so, since you can use a marketplace or, in this case, an API marketplace. An API marketplace is a platform where different developers can sell their APIs. Or, put another way, it is a kind of online shopping center, an intermediary between sellers and customers.
The popularity of this Zyla API Hub platform has been increasing, since on the same website, the user is able to find different APIs without having to scroll or consult different web pages. Therefore, this site is the ideal place to showcase your API!
In order to publish your API in the Zyla API Hub Marketplace, you must enter the website, register (but not before confirming your account by email), and contact an advisor, who will help you throughout the process of publishing your software. Once you publish it, the ads will start and that’s it! Customers will start arriving! That’s what an API marketplace is and because of that, we think it’s the best place to showcase your software. The best place to sell your product and get money with it.
Also published on Medium.