Curated stacks

STARTER BUNDLES

One API is a demo. The right five APIs are a product. These bundles are the combinations we would hand a junior developer on day one.

🎓 Portfolio Starter Pack

Six keyless APIs that between them can build a weather app, a Pokédex, a fake store and a country explorer — the fastest way to a portfolio that looks employed.

  • JSONPlaceholder — The most-used fake REST API ever — posts, comments, users, todos for prototyping anything.
  • DummyJSON — Fake store, users, carts, posts and auth flows — a full fake backend for front-end practice.
  • PokeAPI — Every Pokémon, move, berry and ability ever — the most complete free game API in existence.
  • RandomUser.me — Generate fake user profiles with photos, names, addresses — the Lorem Ipsum of people.
  • Picsum Photos — Beautiful placeholder photos from Unsplash source images, any size you want. Dead simple.
  • REST Countries — Every country on Earth — capitals, currencies, languages, borders, flags. A portfolio favorite.

🌦️ Weather App in a Day

Forecast, geocoding, sun times and reverse geocoding — everything a genuinely good weather app needs, all free, all keyless.

  • Open-Meteo — Free weather forecast, current conditions and historical data for any coordinates. No key, no signup.
  • Open-Meteo Geocoding — Turn city names into coordinates and back, worldwide, in many languages.
  • Sunrise-Sunset — Sunrise, sunset, solar noon and day length for any place and date.
  • BigDataCloud Free Geocoding — Reverse geocoding and locality info with no key and no signup.
  • REST Countries — Every country on Earth — capitals, currencies, languages, borders, flags. A portfolio favorite.

🤖 Bot Builder Pack

Personality for your Telegram, Discord or WhatsApp bot: facts, jokes, quotes, answers and dog pictures on tap.

  • Cat Facts — A random cat fact in one call. The hello-world of APIs, and it never gets old.
  • JokeAPI — Programming, general and pun jokes with safe-mode filters and categories.
  • ZenQuotes — Inspirational quotes from Zen masters and modern thinkers.
  • YesNo.wtf — Ask a yes/no question, get an answer and a GIF. Decision-making, gamified.
  • Dog CEO — Random dog pictures and the full breed list. The friendliest API on the internet.
  • Advice Slip — Random slips of advice — some wise, some weird, all free.

📊 Data Nerd Pack

Research papers, world economics, species and earthquakes — build dashboards that make people say "wait, that is real data?"

  • OpenAlex — 250M+ scholarly works, authors and institutions — a research goldmine, fully open.
  • Crossref — Metadata for 140M+ DOIs — papers, books and citations, free in the polite pool.
  • World Bank Data — Development indicators for every country — GDP, population, poverty, health and more.
  • GBIF — Global biodiversity data — species, occurrences and taxonomy from the world's museums.
  • USGS Earthquakes — Real-time earthquake data from the US Geological Survey in GeoJSON.
  • Hacker News API — Live Hacker News stories, comments and users via Firebase — no key, realtime.
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