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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

Low-code and no-code integrations

All the tactics for growth that we saw so far in this chapter try to reach more people, increase awareness, and get more customers. However, once a customer is interested, they have to go through the learning curve to understand how the APIs that you offer are designed for successful integration. This would require development time and effort on the customer’s side, which can be time-consuming. This can also involve setting up additional infrastructure or tooling that can see customers take weeks, and sometimes months, to complete their integration.

Fortunately, you can build tooling to reduce friction for customers to integrate quickly so that they can start using APIs as quickly as possible.

No-code/low-code is a popular term for tools that require little to no coding. This allows users to use a GUI to make configurations that generate code for them. A good example of this is PayPal’s integration builder where you can check a...