The FIRST Alliance - A whole new way to play

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Originally Posted by StevenB

I like the "API first" objective. Having a standard API for all this data is a plus, and the website looks really clean. At the risk of making a judgment before you've laid out your vision and roadmap, I'm unsure what this brings to the table. TBA already has an API, and the results web pages on the FIRST site, while ugly, are stable and easy to scrape data from.

What we need is not more APIs or more apps, but more data.

If someone can come up with a stable API for the twitter data that works from year to year, or a means for teams to collaboratively upload their scouting data, then we'd have something exciting, perhaps even game-changing. But right now, it's just the same data over and over again.

I think that we offer something unique and fresh by starting over, getting a lot of input from the FIRST community early on (ie right now), and working from that angle.

Our API is totally public and transparent. Anyone can access it. The fact that you said "the results web pages on the FIRST site, while ugly, are stable and easy to scrape data from" says there's a major problem FRC teams are facing - there aren't any good APIs out there! Our site is built on top of our API. So as we grow the site, our API grows along with it. Our data is literally your data.