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Merge's internal tooling allows non-engineers to build product integrations

Gil Feig · How this DevOps Tool Plans to Break $1m in First 9 months · Jul 19, 2021 · at 7:40

Gil Feig, co-founder of unified API platform Merge, explains how internal tools allow non-technical employees to build integrations.

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“Engineers and non-engineers are able to build integrations here because of a lot of the tooling we've built.”

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“I think that that's like, I think that, you know, it might be a little bit of overlap, but overall it's just a different market and I don't think we're making them irrelevant.”
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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Feig: Merge integrations are strictly API-based with no scraping
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Disclosure
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“We offer our pay as you go plan. So it's one cent per API request.”
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