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Nikolas Dimitroulakis

ApyHub Fusion - Build, test, document your APIs & collaborate in real-time

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Fusion is our answer to the bottlenecks we have observed in the entire API Lifecycle. We call Fusion "The "Notion-like API Client" since we designed it in order to help software teams REALLY collaborate in a way that has never been done before.

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Samuel
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Hi Product Hunters and Makers, I'm Samuel, creator of Fusion, the latest addition to the ApyHub API Ecosystem. We're thrilled to launch Fusion on PH! 🚀 ApyHub hosts over 110 APIs in our curated API catalog and operates hundreds of internal APIs that power our platform. This is why we have always been very meticulous about API management. However, the API clients (like Postman and even the newer, supposedly “modern” ones) that we used for building, testing, and documenting these APIs did not make our lives easier. We wanted something different, better and easier and we decided to do something about it. Fusion is the result! Fusion is built with the developer in mind. Inspired by tools like Notion, Linear, and Google Docs, it is designed to offer developers a tool they can truly make their own. Here’s how Fusion stands out compared to all other legacy API clients: 🧩 Composable Fusion Blocks: Each aspect of an API request is modular and composable, including headers, query parameters, form inputs, JSON bodies, and scripts. This offers developers, QA, and technical writers great flexibility, reducing redundancy and improving API test management efficiency. 📄Unified Fusion Documents: API specs, tests, and documentation are merged into a single, consistent document, ensuring that dev teams are always on the same page... Literally. 🦸‍♀️Slash Commands: Fusion’s secret superpower lies in its rich Slash Commands. Every new slash command that we add is a whole new feature. This way, adding more features and capabilities doesn’t compromise the developer experience: all these features stay “hidden” until they are invoked through the slash commands. Do you have some ideas about some new slash commands? Write in the comments below.👇 🙌 Keyboard-First Design: Fusion is built with a keyboard-first design, empowering developers to work faster, navigating between different Fusion Blocks and Docs seamlessly. 💬Real-Time Collaboration: Everyone – from frontend and backend developers to QA, technical writers, and product managers – can view, discuss, & collaborate on API specs, tests, and documentation in real-time. 🧙‍♂️Fusion AI: Fusion’s AI capabilities seamlessly integrate into all API development workflows, help with API documentation & testing, supercharging the entire API Lifecycle. Developers and engineering teams can save up to 60% of their time on building, testing, and documenting APIs. With Fusion, you have an API client that is as simple as you want it to be and as powerful as you need it to be. ⚡Exclusive PH offer: We are very grateful to the PH community, who showed us so much love and provided valuable feedback since our initial launch, which is why we are offering 25% off the Fusion Ultra plan for the first 6 months if you sign up using the code “PHFUSION25” . The offer is valid until the end of July 2024*⚡ We’ll be in the comments section below 👇 Have further questions and queries? Join the conversation on our Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/JZagJ...
Christine Orchard
@samuelkaluvuri Fusion sounds impressive, Samuel! Looking forward to trying the real-time collaboration features.
Samuel
Maker
@christine_orchard thanks Christine, please do go ahead and try out and get your team involved. It starts being more efficient to bring all the stakeholders together - from product managers, developers, QA, support and technical writers!
Annee Bayeux
@samuelkaluvuri Can't wait to see it - exciting times.
Samuel
Maker
@max_savonin1 Thanks Max. Regarding your questions. - We intend to make seamlessly integrate into the entire Software Development lifecycle - start from project management tools, git repos, CI/CD, and monitoring as well. - Fusion AI right now can help you generate documentation from just an API request / sepcs, improve existing documentation and also identify when your APIs start behaving differently than what is documented. Besides that Fusion AI also allows you to create client stubs as well as generate openapi specs from an api request. We continue to find more use cases where AI can reduce the manual efforts. Let's connect and discuss your thoughts on how to improve the security features for Fusion and your overall feedback on Fusion. Thanks again for your support!
Samuel
Maker
@leovs09 thanks glad. Hope you try it soon!
Kshitij
Makes handling APIs really intuitive especially for people coming from the no-code paradigm. Congrats on the launch :)
Nikolas Dimitroulakis
Maker
@kshitij11 thanks a lot! Indeed no coders also deserve some love :)
Edy
Maker
@kshitij11 Thanks you, our goal is to make handling APIs intuitive for both technical and non-technical teams.
Dan Robins
Looks like a cool product - best of luck with the launch!
Samuel
Maker
@dan_robins thanks for the support! Do check out the interactive demo!
Andreas Sohns
Fusion seems like an amazing tool! The composable Fusion Blocks and AI integration are impressive. Real-time collaboration is a huge plus. Congrats on the launch!
Samuel
Maker
@andreas_sohns Thanks Andreas. There are so many small details that we focused on in order to create a delightful developer experience. We hope you discover them all :) once you start using it!
RUBI
whoaaa, this is actually interesting
Samuel
Maker
@rubi5491 Glad you think that Rubi! Please go and check it out. I think it is quite powerful!
Nikolas Dimitroulakis
Maker
@rubi5491 happy you find it interesting Rubi. Are you a developer? How are you currently building APIs? looking forward to your feedback.
RUBI
@nikolas_dimitroulakis can this tool convert from OpenAPI to ApyHub document?
Nikolas Dimitroulakis
Maker
@rubi5491 yes you can import from open API and Postman (for now - we will keep adding more options)
Siddharth Dayalwal
Super excited to see this coming live. Kudos to the team and congratulations on this launch 🎉🚀
Samuel
Maker
@siddharth_hacks Thanks Siddharth, let us know if you can think of other ways to improve the developer experience!
Stefans Keiss
Fusion's keyboard-first design sounds intriguing. How intuitive is the learning curve for new developers?
Nikolas Dimitroulakis
Maker
@memphys_sk we designed it in a way to make sure that it becomes super easy for a developer to get started.
Samuel
Maker
@memphys_sk It really is cool Stefans! :) We have a Fusion Doc, for every workspace that has step by step instructions on how you can use different features of Fusion. This is another great power of Fusion Docs, that you can use them not only to build, test and document your APIs .But you can actually start preparing step by step tutorials for your customers or users to use your APIs and execute them right there on the Fusion Doc.. You should give it a try!
Matt Gruber
This product is wonderfully crafted, seamlessly guiding users through the entire API development and testing process. Beautiful UI and UX. Congrats on a great product guys!
Samuel
Maker
@matt_gruber Thanks Matt! We really focused on ensuring that it offers a delightful developer experience!
EAZY TIME
what is the benefit of using it over postman?
Samuel
Maker
@eazy_time There are many benefits but ill list some of the key benefits and differences: - Modularity: 
 In legacy API clients like Postman - every API request is a monolithic block - so you need to keep cloning every request if you want to make a few changes to the request.
With Fusion, every part of an API request is a Fusion Block, allowing you to compose these together and keep them in sync as well using Linked Blocks. So it creates tremendous efficiency when it comes to organising your APIs and tests. - Collaboration:
 In most of these legacy clients, collaboration is mainly around documentation and working on API collections, users cannot easily discuss and ideate around APIs. So you mainly end up using these API clients for testing and using other tools to collaborate with your team like slack, Jira etc. 
Within Fusion, you can collaborate with your team while you are testing the APIs, or documenting them or even designing them - collaboration happens seamlessly around the APIs. - Developer Experience:
 One of the major issues and complaints we see around the legacy API clients is that they are clunky and cluttered, so while they have a lot of features its a pain to find and use them. And each new feature added to the product, adds more complexity. With Fusion, you have a simple, dynamic and functional document that adapts to tailored for the APIs that you are designing. All the rich features are hidden away but just a simple, slash command away. So you can keep the interface as simple as you want or you make it as powerful as you need making for a delightful developer experience. Let me know if you see any other differences / benefits after checking out the interactive demo.
Andrey Budarevskiy
Hey, it's an interesting concept. I wish you luck and success! You might want to leverage CheckDEP by FeedNow.io to keep your software secure.
Samuel
Maker
@andrey_budarevskiy that's awesome - will definitely check it out.
Madza
Congrats on the launch guys! Awesome job on this! đź‘Ťđź’Ż
Samuel
Maker
@madzadev Thanks for the support Madza!
Nikolas Dimitroulakis
Maker
@madzadev thanks a lot Madza :) Thanks for all the support and looking forward to more ideas and feedback from you.
Niels van Rikxoort
Even as non-developer I sense something amazing here. Really getting the Notion-vibe indeed! Well done ApyHub!
Nikolas Dimitroulakis
Maker
@niels_van_rikxoort thank you Niels - glad you get the Notion vibe - what part resonated more with you? The slash commands?
Niels van Rikxoort
@nikolas_dimitroulakis the intuitiveness of it all in general. Seems you guys did an awesome job here.
Kim Sandoval
Congrats on the launch of Fusion, Team! 🎉 The design and functionality of the interface are impressive. I particularly like how visually appealing and well-organized the UI is, making it a joy to use. The color scheme is vibrant yet professional, setting it apart from other API clients on the market. Keep up the great work and looking forward to future updates! 👍
Samuel
Maker
@kim_sandoval thanks for the kind words Kim!
Daniel Zaitzow
Launching soon!
@samuelkaluvuri congrats on the big launch! Likely not a huge use case for me but it feels like a really powerful API tool for devs.
Samuel
Maker
@dzaitzow Thanks Daniel! Do share it with your engineering team, they might love it!
Robin Thomas
Fusion takes aim at the core issues of API management and development with its modular and composable blocks, unified documents, easy to use slash commands, and collaborative tools, all designed to resolve the key pain points of API development process. Looking forward to especially exploring how the AI integration can super charge efficiency ⚡in terms of making the overall API development process faster and easier to manage for dev teams. In terms API Documentation, how does Fusion API manage version control/conflicts of multiple team members working on the same document ?
Samuel
Maker
@robzt hey Robin, With Fusion we use an algorithm that is able to handle concurrent updates on a shared document and resolves conflicts among them. It's a different algorithm than what Google Docs has - but basically they do the achieve the same purpose - to ensure real time concurrent updates without conflicts. Regarding version control, we also use a similar approach to Google Docs where you can go back and see the previous versions and restore your Doc to that version.
Kehui Guo
Love how intuitive and organized ApyHub Fusion is. I previously found it hard to communicate with developers and data team on APIs and queries cuz I'm not highly skilled in that, but this is making it so much more accessible for multi-disciplinary team. Congrats on the launch!
Samuel
Maker
@kehui_guo Absolutely Kehui. We wanted a product where different stakeholders can come together and collaborate in one place - all the way from product managers, developers, qa engineers, devops, and technical writers. And we built it in such a way that everyone can easily use it intuitively.
Hakim Zerhouni
How does Fusion handle version control and documentation for APIs? Excited to see how it enhances our workflow!
Samuel
Maker
@hakz We use an algorithm that handles concurrent updates and resolving any conflicts that might arise. And we maintain a version history so that you can always go back into your version history and restore the API test / doc / design to a previous version. Its more like google docs in that regard, the version management rather than a much more stricter git-type of commits.
Gurdeep kaur
kuddosss!!! seems a very solid product, how can i get more detailed stuff like any help section to use this?
Sohail Pathan
@gurdeep_kaur Thanks, Gurdeep! We have created Getting Started with Fusion guide which you can access from here: https://apyhub.com/help?category...
Nikolas Dimitroulakis
Maker
@gurdeep_kaur sure. We have a help section ih the site plus an interactive demo in the homepage :) have a look and let me know if it helps :)
Ethan Zheng
Notion like api is interesting
Nikolas Dimitroulakis
Maker
@ethan_zheng well, Notion Like API Client to be more precise:) Notion is among the tools that really inspired us for its modularity, the slash commands and how it can extend to meet the needs of its users. The second on is Linear (for the simplicity of design)
Thet Lin Thu
Fusion makes API testing more efficient. Congrats on the launch, Samuel!
Samuel
Maker
@thetlinthu indeed Thet. Fusion should save upto 60% of the time in creating and maintaining API test cases for QA teams.