Jason M. Lemkin built a micro-app using Replit that taps into an undocumented Bizible API endpoint to automatically issue tickets. The app lets an AI VP of Marketing trigger comp-passes for SaaS fund CEOs, showing how APIs are becoming accessible to non-engineers.
that's an API for mobile apps. I'm like, I can't ask Amelia to do this. Like, she's so busy. She has time to do the agents, but that's it. So I'm like, why don't I just ask Replit to wire up a micro micro app where it goes into the Bizible API and I can just issue tickets for free? And it was very interesting. Not only does it work, and so I got an email back. I said to the CEO, I'm going to try this. I don't know if it's actually going to work. And I put him in, he's like, it worked. It was pretty exciting. So I was able to do something So a couple things that are interesting. One, I was able to do something that was technical without being an engineer. So it's another example of how the API is the future of software because we can all interface with APIs now, right? APIs used to be just for your engineers and used to be developers. Now anyone can access your API. So I could, uh, democratized. Um, the other interesting thing, this is just interesting, is that Bizibo is a bit of an older product that we used for ticketing. Replit was like, This is not actually documented in the API, but I found an undocumented way to do it. So it found a part of the API that was not documented in the docs and was able to issue the tickets. And now I have a little widget inside of 10K where I can tell our AI VP of marketing to issue these, these comp passes to our SaaS-er fund and other CEOs in an unsupported call in the API from a non-engineer. I mean, this is an API-first world.
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It's an API-first world, right?
I mean, I, I think I barely knew what API was before a year and a half ago with all these, like, I'm saying, I was like, okay, that's, that's the things that the engineers use for like the backend and the stores, all your data and all that. Now I'm like, hey, could you add this to your API? Or do you have docs for where your API can do XYZ thing? Like literally I was just asking our, our folks this morning 'cause I wanted to make another microapp for SaaStr
