Hi mates 👋
Am going to dedicate myself to dev & open source communities.
I want to build an API that solves something, and I'm looking for your suggestions: what problems in your day-to-day dev life that you would love to have it automated/have it available programmatically?

Colleages that don't write readmes, unit tests and want their shit merged even if the build fails

A virtual ODBC wire-protocol server!

Context:
We have like 30+ databases, in several sites . Some DBs are PostgreSQL, some are Oracle, MongoDB, Redshift, MS SQL server... and many of each.

State of the art:
Apache superset has this AMAZING feature where I can run queries in any connected SQL data source (SQL Lab). but only manually.

Use Case:
I wanted an "virtual DB", some sort of reactive API that allows for connection to ALL of those DBs using the standard ODBC protocol.

Advantage:
It would be then a single IO point to configure security and user access restrictions. Pretty much every data tool can connect to an ODBC data source, but it is a bitch to configure security and user access in many data sources. A single port for all the databases would be great!

Some days ago I tried to find an API with all countries names and their divisions / provinces, and their cities.
Maybe you could write something like that, and make it as flexible as possible; like, having different names for the divisions and as many nested subdivisions as required.
What do you think?

how about solving your own problem. an API place for ideas and voting and discussions. something along the line.

@alexbrooklyn
I can tolerate the rest if we're working on a tight schedule but literally what in the fuck is the last one?

How can anyone reasonably demand their code be merged if it's failing the build smh

By your username, I'm guessing you're a fellow culer. Can you please write an API that sends me an email when Barca finally start to pick up the pace and end this crisis?

I just need a reminder on when I can go back to watching football again after today's nightmare

@c3r38r170 I think there are already such API. Couldn't you find them or do they miss some features?

@useVim thanks for the suggestion, what I actually want to build is a tool or API that helps developers technically speaking

@RexGalilae hahaa this made me laugh and cry 🥺

@azizfcb Nah couldn't find one. I didn't search that long tho'.