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APIMatic
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APIMatic is the company blog at apimatic.io, writing about programming and web. Since 2014, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “API Transformer – Convert Between Swagger, OpenAPI and Other API Spec Formats”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for tools that convert API specs, such as Swagger to OpenAPI and HAR to OpenAPI, and for generating client SDKs from APIs. Comments point to the tools rather than judging the blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Turn your OpenAPI spec into Context Plugins for AI coding tools, MCP servers for agents, SDKs and developer portals. Trusted by PayPal and Verizon.
Most-linked posts?
- API Transformer – Convert Between Swagger, OpenAPI and Other API Spec Formats3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-09-21
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-26
What Hacker News says?
Try out https://www.apimatic.io/transformer/ for converting Swagger Specs to OpenAPI
Comment linking /transformer/
on “Show HN: Mitmproxy2swagger – Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs”Submitted How to design a quick start guide for your API as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOpenAPI is just the latest version of swagger. Should not be hard to change. I was able to translate HAR to OpenAPI with this web site's free preview: https://www.apimatic.io/transformer/ I also see others are working on the same thing: https://github.com/dcarr178/har2openapi
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on “Show HN: Mitmproxy2swagger – Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs”Submitted Show HN: AI agents are bad at API integrations – we fixed it as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSDKs as well :) We have the previous version of APIs.io supported over here: https://apimatic.io/apientity/search Let's connect this too!
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on “APIs.io – The API search engine”Submitted Podcast on API Design with James Higgenbotham [audio] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionInteresting thoughts. I've always liked if we could have something like an `api.txt` file on a website, just like we have a `sitemap` file. The `api.txt` can simply be a text-based listing of links to API descriptions for all APIs exposed by that site publicly. Most API description formats already allow for the API name, category, endpoints, etc. so no need to reinvent the wheel there. A good idea would be to add th…
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on “API Discovery: Can we do better?”Submitted APIMatic: Generate Golang SDKs from OpenAPI Specs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've worked with API Blueprint as it seems to have the widest support across API tooling providers, along with a sane syntax. It's really nice to be able to spec out a blueprint and then simulate an API [1]. Also being able to run tests on the real API, but based on the API docs which describe expected behavior, has exposed many bugs [2]. I just recently watched the "Microservices Summit" from microservices.com/Data…
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on “Microservices, the Unix Philosophy, and the Richardson Maturity Model”Submitted Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering: A Three-Phase Workflow with Claude Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAuto-generated client side consumers for APIs already exist, and are quite useful: https://apimatic.io . If we can get producers to standardize all or part of their API, then we gain the ability to switch easily between providers and force them to compete on service instead of proprietary lock-in. Ideally.
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on “The Open API Initiative”Submitted API Transformer – Convert Between Swagger, OpenAPI and Other API Spec Formats as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNo, we built our first code generator from scratch in 2014 [1]. I don't think most of these projects existed at the time. Our current CodeGen has always been written-from-scratch, propriety code. Our focus is also a bit different from these projects: we aim to cover as much of the OpenAPI format feature-set while generating consistent, high-quality, well-designed SDKs (should be as good as a good engineer can produc…
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on “Adopting the OpenAPI schema to generate Plaid’s SDKs”Submitted What SDKs Are For: 12 Years On as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI recently wrote a blog to help teams decide between writing the SDKs for their APIs by hand or generating them using a code generator: https://www.apimatic.io/blog/2021/09/the-great-sdk-battle-bu... TLDR: There are a good many technical challenges to creating high-quality SDKs in multiple languages for a medium to large-sized REST API and most teams seem to underestimate the amount of effort required to build and m…
Comment linking /blog/2021/09/the-great-sdk-battle-build-vs-buy/
on “Adopting the OpenAPI schema to generate Plaid’s SDKs”Submitted Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering with Claude Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> I wouldn't worry about V8 vulnerabilities, there are many node servers running in production today, in general, and they are doing fine. The problem is your concept is more than just another server running V8. It's a server running V8 with code, which is nearly identical to the code running on my client (it gives me a peak at the server code structure), and which accepts a quite wide range of events allowing me to…
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on “Show HN: SyncNinja – Mirroring browser execution on the server”Submitted APIMatic – Type-safe SDKs for 7 languages from an OpenAPI spec as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHello all! I'm one of the creators of sdks.io over at https://www.apimatic.io/ Happy to answer any questions! We started this project at APIMatic to share our learnings about building and generating SDKs with the API community. We have helped dozens of API providers generate and deploy SDKs now used by millions of developers, giving us some confidence in the learnings we share in this resource. Next, yes, it is hard…
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on “Collection of best practices for creating SDKs for REST APIs”Submitted Show HN: Context Plugins – API context for AI coding assistants as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat's something that we are doing at APIMatic already. APIMatic[1] is a Code-Generation-as-a-Service[2] that generates SDKs for C#, Python, PHP, Ruby, TypeScript and Java from OpenAPI specs (and more formats). We help companies create a better Developer Experience[3] for their APIs using SDKs and API Documentation that are always up-to-date with the API implementation. We have a pretty solid customer base[4] and SD…
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on “Ask HN: SaaS Idea: SDK Generation for API's (OpenAPI / gRPC)”Submitted Jack Bridger from Scaling DevTools [audio] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFrom our benchmarks and internal tests, we’ve noticed a few trust signals developers look for. The first is simply what the model appears to be grounding on. If it’s pulling up SDK method names and library docs, developers feel much better about the result than when it looks like the model is piecing things together from web search, blogs, GitHub snippets, or other unofficial sources. We’ve also found that even amon…
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on “Show HN: Context Plugins – API context for AI coding assistants”Submitted Art of Developer Experience – Podcast about API design, docs, SDKs and tooling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted APIMatic Code Generator for OpenAPI Redesigns Their SDKs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Golang’s Simplicity Brings Complexity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Top API Specification Trends: 2019-2022 as a story · 1 points
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