Business objectives

Any successful product has to be aligned with business objectives. Otherwise, what you have is a set of features that don’t generate any outcome favorable to your business. Understanding the business objectives that you want your API to support helps you during the API design stage. There are choices that you’ll make that depend on how you want your API product to align with your business goals. Let’s look at some possible business objectives to consider while designing an API product. The first, and perhaps the most obvious objective is to increase your revenue. When you think of a product, you immediately think of how you can make money with it. To generate revenue, your API product needs to add value to the customers using it. Without value, users won’t want to pay for your API, and you won’t be able to generate any revenue. Adding value can be done by providing features that solve problems that users have but also by using...