Headless e-commerce has been growing lately. See the MACH Alliance [1] to find out about closed-source platforms in this space. One thing to note is that we can see more and more specialization, new categories, such as headless loyalty/PIM/search etc., appeared on the market. Earlier this year, I wrote a short article [2] explaining what problems these APIs try to solve (sorry for the clickbait title).

[1] https://www.machalliance.com/members

[2] https://dev.to/voucherify/whats-mach-and-how-it-can-make-you...

A series on building modern business apps https://www.voucherify.io/blog/building-an-online-marketplac...

We're going to start more business-oriented dev challenge soon, more info https://dev.to/msedzielewski/voucherify-developer-challenge-...

I would use the table to summarize even further: Many problems are self derived or due to (lack of good) process.

And going further I'd say that even the process part is self derived. If you ask a programmer, he'll often say he hates process, meetings, and decisions where he wasn't in the majority (the last one only indirectly). But he also loves the results of process: quality, aligned decision making, people in other departments considering his previous work on a topic.

The thing with self derived problems is that you can't do much from the outside beside trying to show with examples and experiences that other ways are possible.

Last but not least I personally feel that if you mostly or only have self derived problems left you belong to the happiest group of people on the planet. Sadly human nature does not make us happy if we get everything we want. We're still relatively unhappy.

Thanks, I think the frequency numbers are important to know how different the issues are. The paper is quite a bit to digest but this is probably what most people who click the link are really after.

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Great, thanks for the rec! Looks like they just got swagger support added in which is important to us. We'll give the trial a go.

Sending out coupons, kidding. For a niche API platform like ours (https://voucherify.io) getting SEO right seems to be the best "growth hack". Other than that, top-notch customer service does wonders.

I really like your site. I have an API-based service for software licensing. How important has language bindings/SDKs been for developer on-boarding? Just curious, as I don't have bindings ready and have detected a little bit of friction because of it. I also don't have an admin dashboard yet. Joys of releasing a beta early. :)

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