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The news here is the AI reading the API docs, assembling requests, and iterating on them until it works as expected.

This sounds simple, but is time consuming and error prone for humans to do.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579818

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Nango (YC W23) is an open-source developer infrastructure for product integrations.

We power the integrations of Replit, Semgrep, Motion, Vapi, Exa, and hundreds of other AI companies.

Small but highly experienced team, hard technical challenges (scale + infra devtool running untrusted user code), tons of ownership, direct customer contact, growing very fast.

We are looking for a Staff engineer who can touch every part of the stack and is passionate about dev infrastructure.

Website: https://nango.dev Jobs: https://nango.dev/careers

Especially if you use pipedream for integrations in your agent or product.

(I’m one of the founders)

Nango (YC W23) is an open source product: Developer infrastructure for product integrations.

We power the integrations of Semgrep, Motion, Vapi, Exa, and hundreds of other B2B software.

Small but highly experienced team, hard technical challenges (scale + infra devtool running untrusted user code), tons of ownership, direct customer contact, growing very fast.

We are looking for a Staff engineer that can touch every part of stack and is passionate about dev infrastructure.

Website: https://nango.dev Jobs: https://nango.dev/careers

Examples: - Low latency to show X last emails a person had with a specific email address

- Enriching data from the emails/calendar with other data from your product (E.g. mapping email recipients to contacts)

- Knowing when a calendar event has changed (sometimes also possible with webhooks)

- Detecting deletes (maybe also possible with webhooks, not sure for gmail/calendar)

A lot of teams use us for their Gmail & Google calendar integrations.

If you want to run complex queries across large parts of the data, syncing + indexing on your side will be necessary. Limits on filters, pagination & rate limits make it infeasible to search across most of a user's inbox without tens of seconds to minutes of latency.

But before you sync all the data, I would test if your users actually need to run such queries.

Both Gmail & Google Calendar have a query endpoint that searches across many fields. I would start with a simple tool for your agent to run queries on that, and expand from there if necessary.

Both Nango and Composio could do this for you.

With Nango, you would also get syncs on the same platform, if it turns out you need them.

Hope this helps!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45464145

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Nango (YC W23) is an open source product: Developer infrastructure for product integrations. We power the integrations of Semgrep, Motion, Vapi, Exa, and hundreds of other B2B software.

Small but highly experienced team, hard technical challenges (scale + infra devtool running untrusted user code), tons of ownership, direct customer contact, growing very fast.

We are looking for a Staff engineer that can touch every part of stack and is passionate about dev infrastructure.

Website: https://nango.dev Jobs: https://nango.dev/careers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583980

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Email me on robin @ and happy to find a solution for your use case

With something like https://nango.dev you can get a single server that covers 400+ APIs.

Also handles auth, observability and offers other interfaces for direct tool calling.

(Full disclosure, I’m the founder)

Free for OAuth with 400+ APIs & can be self-hosted

(I am one of the founders)

Nango is an open-source platform for product integrations with 300+ APIs.

B2B SaaS use us to connect their product with all the other SaaS their customers use. Learn more here: https://www.nango.dev

We are a late-seed stage, YC-backed startup and fully remote (US & EU).

Hiring for fullstack engineering roles (EST timezone) and an entrepreneur in residence (also EST based).

More details: https://www.nango.dev/jobs

Our experience was exactly like OP describes: https://www.nango.dev/blog/why-is-oauth-still-hard

There are also more flexible solutions like https://www.nango.dev

It handles the API-specific complexities (auth, retries, webhooks, per-customer config, pre-built templates) but allows you to implement the exact use case + data model you need.

It's open source/source available.

(disclaimer: I am a founder)

Auth with external APIs is surprisingly difficult. OAuth is a mess[0], many APIs require parameters other than an API key or access token, and platforms like Stripe or GitHub even create their own custom auth protocols.

We first launched Nango Auth on HN 1.5 years ago[1] when it only supported 40 OAuth APIs.

Since then, it has expanded beyond OAuth into an end-to-end solution for API authentication:

- Supports 250+ APIs[2] and almost a dozen auth modes: OAuth 2.0, OAuth 1.0, API key, Basic auth, and a half-dozen custom formats

- Pre-built UI to help users pick & connect the API (including guides to find their API key and other required parameters)

- Automatic credentials validation on connect

- Secure, encrypted credentials storage & automatic token refresh

- Detects expired/broken access tokens

- Very detailed logs for quick & easy debugging

More than 300 companies use Nango Auth in production for their product integrations: From fast-growing AI startups (Respell, Beam, Levity) to established SaaS players (Typeform, Semgrep, Electric) and even public companies. We also run a Slack Community[3] with 2,000+ engineers building product integrations.

Nango Auth is a part of Nango[4], our source-available product integrations platform. While Nango itself is a paid product, our auth product (Nango Auth) is free for unlimited use, forever. It’s our small way of giving back to the community. You can either self-host Nango Auth or use our free cloud option.

We hope Nango Auth can be helpful for your next integration, and look forward to your feedback!

Demo video: https://www.loom.com/share/e704192eb5ba42479803135db1ceccd8

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/NangoHQ/nango

Landing page: https://www.nango.dev/auth

[0]: https://www.nango.dev/blog/why-is-oauth-still-hard

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34693233

[2]: https://docs.nango.dev/integrations/overview

[3]: https://nango.dev/slack

[4]: https://www.nango.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42127681

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