How do sales/marketing/ops teams test APIs without using engineering resources?
2 by dirtbag__dad | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Say I’m a first sales hire and I want to run outbound email tests using different APIs to enrich or filter my data. There are a handful of data sources I can choose from. I don’t know what’s quality vs junk, and I don’t know what data will show results. I’m excited to try it all, but my engineering team has very limited bandwidth and I’m not technical. Is there a tool that I can use to call the APIs I’ve found? It would be infinitely better to be self sufficient than to hammer engineering while I’m exploring what works and what doesn’t. Tools like Zapier _might_ be helpful here, but something that I can easily do batch API requests would be the dream. Any suggestions?