address: https://api.snapbill.com<p>login: hnapi / h!jT2X!M<p>We're looking at launching our startup next month, and I'd love to launch with a fully functioning API. Since I haven't really got a developer network I was hoping that I could here some of your thoughts. I believe a lot of what I have done is unique (at-least a little) but wouldn't be surprised if someone points me to people doing the same thing.<p>The API is fully browseable through a browser and follows most of the standard REST API idioms. I know its not technically 100% REST, but the few things I chose to do (verbs other than GET/POST, /v1/ in url) I believe were good decisions - but are still obviously up for debate.<p>The API can output in HTML/XML/JSON/PHP(serialized)/PY(pickled). You can get each format either with an appropriate "Accept:" header, or file extensions (/v1/client/add.json). Some commands (such as POST /v1/invoice/136891/pdf) will always return a certain content type (in this case a PDF file).<p>GET requests are used for browsing the API. For instance "GET /v1" will return an index, but whats quite cool is "GET /v1/client/add" will return a form in order to create a client. The form code is available in all the exports. A "POST /v1/client/add" is used to add clients. In order to make testing in a browser simpler, adding "?post" to a URL will treat it as a POST request with the other variables.<p>Known issues:<p>a. The API is rather incomplete. I'm quite aware of that, but I believe what is up is enough to relay the style and content of the rest. I do have a couple of small issues (such as repeating fields - invoice lines, etc) but am busy working out plans for those.<p>b. BASIC AUTH isn't great. I have several other methods planned but for the initial launch it'll have to do.<p>c. Theres no documentation. I'll get something basic up by the time we launch and improve it from there. I honestly believe the browsable nature should be enough for now though.<p>d. I only created one user with test data for HN. Hopefully that won't be a problem :)<p>[if you interested in actual startup request invitation at http://www.snapbill.com and expect a Review my Startup sometime next month :)]