Snowpal: Status Management API (SaaS and License)

Snowpal Status Management API: Go beyond basic statuses of simply knowing “who did what, and when”, and learn a lot more specifics about your team’s overall functioning.

We have added more APIs since the time of this write up and recording. Check out aws.snowpal.com for the latest list.

Introduction

We’ve all used Status Update Apps, and while a lot of them are fairly decent and help provide a reasonable sense of what a team is working on, they rarely go beyond the basics. This is primarily because the APIs they rely on are built to serve a rather basic set of requirements.

Highlights

• Status API includes over 70 REST Endpoints to help serve a fair bit of your backend status needs. Whether you are building a new application from scratch, or adding features/enhancements to existing apps, you can rely on the API to do a lot of the backend heavy lifting.
• Status reporting, who is working on what, are there any blockers, what are your team’s strengths and weaknesses, who is performing the best, which team members need improvement, and more.
• You can integrate the API into your existing systems in almost no time. The time between you deciding to subscribe to the API, and your development team writing their first line of code to leverage the API should be 30 minutes or lesser.

Start Building

At Snowpal, where our team continually builds complex products all the time, we noticed that a lot of our specific questions (read: the really important ones) weren’t answered by these generic APIs. So, we decided to create a rich set of Status Update endpoints to help us, and help you.

Clients

How you leverage this API depends on your needs. Build a Slack App, or a Native Mobile App, or a Web App, or Server Side Microservices. That’s entirely up to you.

Subscribe to API

You can subscribe to the API by clicking “View Purchase Options”. When you do this, you will be redirected to a Registration Page where you will be asked to enter some details. It should take no more than a few seconds, and once you’ve done that, we will send you an email with the API Key.

This email should take about 5 minutes to reach your inbox. If you do not see the email after a few minutes, check your spam folder. Do not hesitate to reach out to us if you need help.

API Features

Given that the API has numerous to satisfy a plethora of needs, it’s best to review the API Specification and related documentation to get an understanding of it. With that said, here’s a subset of the features it supports:

• Manage teams
• Manage team members
• Add admins
• Manage team statuses (as admins)
• Manage status (as team member)
• Add blockers, blocked by, etc.

Professional Services for Status API

Snowpal API: Our APIs are pretty much self serve but we are happy to provide professional services to help you get going even more quickly.

Introduction

Our Professional Service for Status API is designed to help our customers build Web Apps, Mobile Apps, Microservices, and more leveraging our robust, performant and feature rich Status API.

Highlights

• Build Web Apps, Mobile Apps, and Microservices seamlessly by collaborating with our expert team of consultants who will work with your team closely to reduce your Time to Market significantly.
• Work with a team that has been building software for decades, and has partnered with companies of all sizes. Whether you are building a new application from scratch, or adding features/enhancements to existing apps, you can rely on us to do most (if not all) of the heavy lifting on the server side.
• Status API has over 70 endpoints to cater to most of your needs, and is well documented. If you combine that with the expertise our team has in the underlying functionings of the API, you are looking at a release cycle that is going to be very attractive to your management and customers alike.

AWS Services

Our Service is built on the back of the a number of powerful AWS Services that we have all come to like, and adopt. To name a few:

• API Gateway
• Lambda (+ Layers)
• CloudFormation
• CloudWatch
• DynamoDB
• Simple Notification Service
• IAM
• S3

Key Deliverables & Process

1. Planning: Our team of consultants will meet with you and your team to understand your needs, discuss requirements, set up expectations, and define action items.
2. Demo: We’ll walk you through an existing consumer of this API so you can both visualize what the outcome could look like, and also see the power of the API, firsthand.
3. Engagement Model — Options:

• We are able to take your requirements from start to finish, and provide an end to end implementation so you have absolutely nothing to worry about.
• Our consultants can also integrate with your team, and work alongside your other team members, following your internal processes, to help wire our API into your systems.
• Or, we can do a combination of the 2 above. It’s what works best for you, really.

4. Milestones: We’ll break the entire project into meaningfully small milestones so you know we are moving along swiftly, and per your plan.

5. Support: We’ll work with you closely not just during the course of initial implementation and integration, but also once you’ve gone LIVE so we are available for any support you might ever need.

Getting Started

The onboarding process is quite seamless, and here’s all you have to do: All you have to do is this:

• Subscribe to this Professional Service.
• Our onboarding team will contact you to go over next steps.
• We will help kickstart your API Integration, and get your team off to a fast start by doing the following (and more):
• Walk you through the API Guides, and Reference.
• Help your team understand the Value Proposition of the API.
• Understand your requirements and timelines.
• Do a deep dive into your current, and future, architecture as it relates to the integration.
• Set expectations across the board.
• Get started with development work.
• Our development team will work with you throughout the engagement to ensure smooth delivery, up until the point deployment is completed effectively following best practices.
• Our support team will train your team along the way, and at the end of deployment as well.

This is a time tested model, and we will show you how to make it work for you as well.

For an example Production App that leverages this API, feel free to check out Snowpal: App.

Documentation

Postman API Documentation

Review the API Documentation. There are close to 400 Endpoints grouped into several categories to help serve a variety of your needs.

API Guides & Reference

Take a look at API Guides & Reference. Once you’ve gotten a feel for the lay of the land, you can check out the Recipes here.

Pricing

Contact us for custom pricing.

Products integrating Snowpal APIs

Here’s a list of a few Web and Mobile Apps that leverage the Snowpal APIs.

Snowpal Products

• Backends as Services on AWS Marketplace
• Mobile Apps on App Store and Play Store
• Web App
• Education Platform for Learners and Course Creators