An API for startups in education

dev.oneschool.com

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OneSchool is looking for beta users to build the first products on top of its API.

The API is part of a larger OPEN movement to liberate data from schools and enable startups to build amazing products from that data. http://oneschool.com/open

I signed up at the bottom of that page, but I don't know how you're distinguishing students from teachers from developers in that signup form. I'm a developer that would like to checkout the API, assuming you have some data in it already.

That's a good point. I just added it to the form but if you want us to add that to your application email us at api@oneschool.com

It talks about "the country" - is that the US?

umm http://i.imgur.com/UGr3D.png

This is brilliant. How many schools are you guys at? I just signed up.

Maybe someone at OneSchool can clear this up: http://oneschool.com/students/

"We're the #1 app for college students at campuses around the country. Want to bring OneSchool to your campus? Email us and we'll get back to you faster than you can say "I need you now.""

Really? It's been awhile since I've been a student on campus, but I'd venture to guess that Facebook, Shazaam, Pandora, and Instagram are all more ubiquitous than OneSchool. In terms of use, at least, and probably in terms of install rate.

So I'm guessing that there is a specific category and specific use that maybe OneSchool is the leader in. But whoever wrote the copy for that webpage clearly does not think such distinctions matter or that OneSchool's customers are the kind to be bamboozled by such a claim. But I think most API developers do care about such things as granularity of data.

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