API

OK Shift: Manage your workplace shifts via text message

Oct 28, 2014

Blog, Projects

API, Development Projects, Hourly Workers, OK Shift, Restaurants, Twilio

The idea was simple: why isn’t there a good system for hourly workers (60% of the US workforce) to swap their shifts out via text message? Enter OK Shift, a text message-only based system that allows hourly workers to swap their shifts via text message, and get those swaps approved by managers. The system allows…
A Personal API

Oct 13, 2014

Blog, Projects

API, Apple, Cloud, Data, Facebook, Google, Personal API, Protocol, Technology

Why is the API model traditionally built around a central entity node connected to many consumer nodes, rather than the other way around? Why is it possible for me to connect with various APIs from cloud services like Twilio and Dropbox but I can’t create an API for myself that allows companies to connect with…