As in, "do you have an open API? That company has an open API, can you integrate with them?" And the more sinister cousin, "it shouldn't be that difficult. They have an open api, here is the documentation"
It is always some motherfucker who doesn't have to do any of the work (usually a marketing exec or ops manager) who thinks all you have to do is put their key to our lock and just give it a turn and everything will line up and the door is open.
"What do you mean this will cost $30k? It's just an open api, all the instructions are there". Argh. Fuck off
CE's Resident Scotsman.
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