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on Feb 7, 2013 | hide | past | favorite



I like the idea. However, the website is poorly executed because it took me too long to figure out what it is you guys do.

"On Webshell you write scripts in the API Editor and once pushed on Webshell's server, you can call them as a new API" is just not descriptive enough because it says nothing about integrating/aggregating multiple APIs through the Webshell API.

Poor spelling and grammar only made understanding harder. That said, the product is impressive. Let me also point out to those that missed it, the project is open source [1]. I just hope the creators add a licence file - because IIRC you can't just appropriate source code without a licence.

On a side note, I really like this other service called Zapier [2] that makes "your service talk to others".

[1] https://github.com/webshell/APIs [2] https://zapier.com/


On a side note, your page specifies

    <meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="fr" />
but is in English, therefor Chrome offers to translate it from French to English.


It would also be nice if your page was proofread by a native speaker...


I think you need to make a better job at explaining what webshell is, I only see buzzwords where I understand it actually is a "one javascript interface to many different apis" which is really awesome.

Also, I think you should show more prominently the APIs you currently support, there should be a link in the sidebar of the page you linked in HN.


I'm not really sure what this service does. Is it "workers" as a service? I.e. It aggregates twitter feed each second, but I can query it from my app whenever I want it? The same way I could do that with a worker?


Nice project. Have you guys looked at ql.io?


Thanks. Yes we know ql.io. from our knowledge ql.io is more for server side API scripting, focused on data.

With webshell, we are more focused on services execution, as for client side as server side.

For example we enable custom HTML views for GoogleMaps, Google Chart, Twitter feeds or other APIs.

The main difference is that we combine all kind of APIs. We also made a platform on top of the language.

This plaform enables to re-use each script as a new REST/JSON API by other developers, thanks our file system designed as a kind of "Github for APIs."




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