--- title: That List of 1000 APIs Does Not Do Me Much Good When I... description: A veteran API evangelist reflects on the futility of massive API directories and integration provider icon walls. After 16 years in the space, the author... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/that-list-of-1000-apis-does-not-do-me-much-good-when-i-just-need-to-be-capable-of-doing-something-ndtpzopf3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: That List of 1000 APIs Does Not Do Me Much Good When I Just Need To Be Capable of Doing Something | daily.dev og:description: A veteran API evangelist reflects on the futility of massive API directories and integration provider icon walls. After 16 years in the space, the author... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/that-list-of-1000-apis-does-not-do-me-much-good-when-i-just-need-to-be-capable-of-doing-something-ndtpzopf3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NDtpzOpF3.png og:image:alt: That List of 1000 APIs Does Not Do Me Much Good When I Just Need To Be Capable of Doing Something og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # That List of 1000 APIs Does Not Do Me Much Good When I Just Need To Be Capable of Doing Something **[API Evangelist](https://daily.dev/sources/apievangelist)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A veteran API evangelist reflects on the futility of massive API directories and integration provider icon walls. After 16 years in the space, the author argues that API discovery needs to evolve beyond listing thousands of APIs toward capability-based vocabulary artifacts that meet users where they are. The post explores early experiments with a 'vocabulary' artifact for the Google Analytics API and suggests that agentic AI, combined with new discovery approaches, may offer a path forward — but isn't the complete answer. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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