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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

Providing developer tools

API documentation is an important part of the API experience because it provides developers with the information they need to use the API effectively. However, it is only one part of the puzzle. There are several other things that can help make the API experience better for developers, such as the following:

  • Sandbox: A sandbox is a testing environment that allows developers to try out the API without affecting production data. This can be especially useful for testing out new features or debugging issues.
  • GitHub repositories: If the API is open source, hosting the code on GitHub can make it easier for developers to contribute to the project and collaborate with the development team.
  • Developer communities: Developer communities such as Stack Overflow provide a place for developers to ask questions, get help, and share their experiences with the API.
  • SDKs: These are libraries that make it easier for developers to use the API, often by providing...