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  • Redefining our SDKs Developer Experience
    3 projects | dev.to | 18 Feb 2025
    After evaluating multiple SDK-as-a-service vendors, including Speakeasy, Fern and Liblab, we selected Speakeasy as our strategic partner. Speakeasy’s philosophy aligns with our mission to deliver an outstanding developer experience. Here’s why we’re excited about this partnership:
  • 7 SDK Generator Tools for APIs in 2025
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  • The Stainless SDK Generator
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Apr 2024
    Lots of these have been popping up lately, they all seem really good.

    https://buildwithfern.com/

  • Fern: Toolkit to generate SDKs and Docs for your API
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2024
  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Dec 2023
    Fern | https://buildwithfern.com | Founding Backend Engineer | $160k + equity | On-site NYC | Full-time

    At Fern, we're creating the modern developer experience platform. We work with developer-focused companies to generate SDKs & API documentation. We're looking for a Founding Backend Engineer to help us scale with our users. You'll join a small team (3 of us) and will be a product owner who designs, builds, and ships weekly.

    Learn more at https://www.buildwithfern.com/careers

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Nov 2023
    Fern (YC W23) | Founding Engineer | New York City | $130k-$160k + 0.5-1.0% equity | Full Time | Open Source | https://buildwithfern.com

    REST APIs underpin the internet but are still painful to work with. They are often untyped, unstandardized, and out-of-sync across multiple sources of truth. With Fern, we aim to bring great developer experiences to REST APIs.

    Our stack is Next.js + Vercel, Express (Node.js) + FastAPI (Python), Postgres DB + Prisma ORM, and AWS CDK. We're open source: https://www.github.com/fern-api/fern

    We closed a Seed this year from top-tier US investors, including Y Combinator, Abhinav Asthana (Postman CEO), Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox co-founder), and Ian McCrystal (Stripe's Head of Docs).

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  • Show HN: REST Alternative to GraphQL and tRPC
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    Thank you for your encouraging words and insights!

    There are indeed popular DSLs and code to openapi solutions out there. Many of which are easy to plug in to the openapi-stack libraries btw!

    I guess I personally always found it frustrating to try to control the generated OpenAPI output using additional tooling and ended up preferring yaml + a visualisation tool as the api design workflow. (e.g. swagger editor)

    But something like https://buildwithfern.com, or using zod as substitute for json schema may indeed be worth a try as a step before emitting openapi.

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2023
    Fern (YC W23) | Founding Engineer | New York City | $125k-$175k + equity | Full Time | Open Source | https://buildwithfern.com

    REST APIs underpin the internet but are still painful to work with. They are often untyped, unstandardized, and out-of-sync across multiple sources of truth. With Fern, we aim to bring great developer experiences to REST APIs.

    Our stack is Next.js + Vercel, Express (Node.js) + FastAPI (Python), Postgres DB + Prisma ORM, and AWS CDK.

    We closed a Seed this year from top-tier US investors, including Y Combinator, Abhinav Asthana (Postman CEO), Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox co-founder), and Ian McCrystal (Stripe's Head of Docs).

    Apply by emailing [email protected]

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