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Merge
Company blog · merge.dev/blogaibusiness
Merge is the company blog at merge.dev, writing about ai and business. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often ““Don’t interview like Google, if you’re not building Google””. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mention Merge as a unified API that offers one generic integration across many platforms, such as CRM or payroll systems. Threads also cover its job postings and how it compares with rival tools.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Merge is the universal context engine for AI. One platform connects your agents to company data, tools, and models to reinvent what your business can do.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-03
- “Don’t interview like Google, if you’re not building Google”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-01
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-09
What Hacker News says?
I wish API integrations never took that long! But it's dependent on who you're integrating with and what your product looks like. I'm the engineering manager of the payroll integrations team at a company that does workplace savings plans. Sometimes even when you're making calls to dozens of different endpoints they're easy, but other times, you end up guessing at how to access undocumented functionality within a Gra…
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on “Devin is now generally available”Submitted AI that builds integrations for B2B SaaS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMerge | https://merge.dev/ | Staff Backend Software Engineer and Engineering Manager | San Francisco and New York City | Full Time See the job postings here: - Staff Backend Software Engineer ($200,000—$250,000): https://boards.greenhouse.io/merge/jobs/4828404004 - Engineering Manager ($180,000–$260,000): https://boards.greenhouse.io/merge/jobs/4613674004 === Merge is a single API to add hundreds of integrations to…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)”Submitted Writing Great Error Messages as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf it's like https://www.merge.dev/ (another "Unified API") then the idea is they provide an abstraction layer to the other API. You build against one generic spec for a given entity ("Person", "Company", "Ticket", etc), hook up to the API, and whatever platform-specific model is squished into that generic model. You end up with only one integration to cover all instances of "CRM systems" or whatnot. Obviously you a…
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on “Show HN: Nango – Open unified API for product integrations”Submitted “Don’t interview like Google, if you’re not building Google” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDefinitely a difficult problem you're taking on here, but I don't see anything specific to LLMs here? How or why are you marketing towards LLMs? How do you compare to the larger players here already Nango[0] and Merge[1] ? I'm curious how you're thinking about data access / staleness? It's great that you're handling the oauth dance, but does that mean every end user of the product has to auth every product they inte…
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on “Show HN: Poozle – open-source Plaid for LLMs”Submitted “Don’t interview like Google, if you’re not building Google” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCheck out merge : https://www.merge.dev/
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on “Feedback- Universal/Unified API for Logistics/Supply Chain”