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Every success story has a humble beginning. ✨

RapidAPI is the world's largest API Hub, but did you know it all started with a GitHub repository?

Our story: All you need to know about us 🧵👇🏻

📌 It all started with HackGenY. What was it?

Before RapidAPI was actually RapidAPI, @IddoGino, the founder, was involved in a non-profit organization called Hacking Generation Y (HackGenY).

HackGenY aimed at getting teenagers excited about learning to code.

HackGenY achieved its goals by commencing a 36 hours long hackathon where participants could solve real-world problems with their coding skills.

This way, they ignited the spark of interest in the participants. 🔥

But HackGenY faced a problem here …👇🏻

Creating a Full Stack app within 36 hours was almost improbable — as building everything from scratch was not feasible.

Thus started the first foray into the world of APIs, and RapidAPI came into existence: 👇🏻

No one thought that a simple GitHub repo would become the largest API Hub in the world.

Originally RapidAPI started as a GitHub repository - collecting the best APIs and code examples of using them to help find and select APIs that will make their development faster.

Now we are much more than just a single GitHub repository.

🎯 Our Mission: Empower developers around the world to create transformative applications and companies.

📌 Challenges for API Developers?!

There are thousands of APIs you can integrate with your software to make excellent products.

However, there are three major challenges faced by developers when working with APIs. Let me explain: 👇🏻

1. API Discovery challenges for API developers:

With tens of thousands of APIs, how do you find the right API that provides the data and functionality you need. How do you know if the random API you found meets your performance requirements? 🔍

2. API Connectivity challenges for API Developers:

Every API uses a different data format, networking protocol, and authentication strategy - meaning developers waste a lot of time creating the 'plumbing' to integrate with those APIs.

3. API Management challenges for API developers

After the application integrates with APIs, developers must stay on top of the APIs' uptime and performance to understand the impact on their apps. This requires a huge investment of time, infrastructure costs, & whatnot.

📌 RapidAPI can make your life as an API Developer easier by solving these 3 key challenges:

🔘 Discover: 35K APIs (world's largest API Hub)
🔘 Connect: APIs use a single API key for integration
🔘 Manage: APIs and analyze API analytics in a single dashboard

So what are you waiting for?

Head over to RapidAPI.com/marketplace?ut… — register your FREE account and start building your projects with thousands of excellent APIs. 😉