To my phone, specifically to standard apps so I could make a server that does what they cannot.<p>For example, I could send usage reports sms to my gas provider from a home dashboard. Auto-check incoming calls with few web services and block them. Parse notifications and delete irrelevant ones. Add reminders via simpler ui or parse from notes.<p>In the end I’d probably end up with my own phone-control webapp and would rarely visit standard apps.
A charity API. When people outside my contacts list first email me, I would (auto) generate and send a charity donation link to them, and once the donation is verified, I'd let their mail through.<p>I've been thinking about a captcha-like "prove you're not a bot/spammer" system for emails and I think charity donations would be a good test of that.
> There are many awesome APIs in the world<p>...and not enough people are taking advantage of them.<p>So this is my wish : Not more and more APIs, but a better use of what we got.<p>How ? Better no-code web data extraction, and its integration with the tools we already use (excel...)<p>Example ? <a href="https://coda.io/product/packs" rel="nofollow">https://coda.io/product/packs</a>
A good, reliable api to archive web pages in multiple formats and extract the article text. The best are very expensive - look up Diffbot, it’s the best I’ve found but at $299 a month, it’s expensive. I’d happily pay per web page extracted, but the upfront minimum is too much.