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API Analytics for Product Managers

By : Deepa Goyal
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API Analytics for Product Managers

By: Deepa Goyal

Overview of this book

APIs are crucial in the modern market as they allow faster innovation. But have you ever considered your APIs as products for revenue generation? API Analytics for Product Managers takes you through the benefits of efficient researching, strategizing, marketing, and continuously measuring the effectiveness of your APIs to help grow both B2B and B2C SaaS companies. Once you've been introduced to the concept of an API as a product, this fast-paced guide will show you how to establish metrics for activation, retention, engagement, and usage of your API products, as well as metrics to measure the reach and effectiveness of documentation—an often-overlooked aspect of development. Of course, it's not all about the product—as any good product manager knows; you need to understand your customers’ needs, expectations, and satisfaction too. Once you've gathered your data, you’ll need to be able to derive actionable insights from it. This is where the book covers the advanced concepts of leading and lagging metrics, removing bias from the metric-setting process, and bringing metrics together to establish long- and short-term goals. By the end of this book, you'll be perfectly placed to apply product management methodologies to the building and scaling of revenue-generating APIs.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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The API Analytics Cheat Sheet

Integration guides and tutorials

Integration guides and tutorials are resources that provide step-by-step instructions for integrating the API into a particular environment or platform. They are an important part of a good API experience, as they help developers understand how to use the API and get started with their own projects.

Here are a few best practices for creating integration guides and tutorials for an API:

  • Make them easy to follow: Integration guides and tutorials should be clear and concise, with step-by-step instructions that are easy to follow.
  • Include examples: Including examples of how to use the API can be very helpful for developers, as it allows them to see how the API can be used in practice.
  • Provide troubleshooting tips: It’s inevitable that developers will run into issues while integrating the API. Providing troubleshooting tips and resources can help them resolve any issues they encounter.
  • Keep them up to date: As the API evolves...