Webhooks, Polling, and Now Tasks — A Third Way to Hand Work to AI
Webhooks and polling both fall short when you ask an AI to run a job that takes a while. Here's why we built Tasks and how they work, explained with the same delivery analogy.
New features, practical tips, and stories to help with your API integrations.
Webhooks and polling both fall short when you ask an AI to run a job that takes a while. Here's why we built Tasks and how they work, explained with the same delivery analogy.
3Min API is now in the Claude connector directory. An honest account of a Google Form, three months of silence, and four days to approval. Connect on any plan.
3Min API has joined ChatGPT Plugins. Without writing code or renting a server, you can now build, test, and invite collaborators to your APIs from inside your ChatGPT conversations. We walk through what changes — with a small wine business scenario.
How we built and submitted 3Min API as a ChatGPT App. We picked the standard MCP SDK only (no OpenAI-specific wrapper), implemented OAuth 2.1 (RFC 7591/8414/9728) plus an API Key path for CLI tools, and learned to mark destructiveHint/openWorldHint conservatively after one rejection. The same code covers Claude Connectors as well.
A beginner's guide to JSON that closes out the wine shop owner's story. Starting from a spreadsheet, we follow the recursive structure of keys, values, objects, and arrays — ending with a today-you-can-do-it practice where you write one of your own business events as JSON, no prior knowledge required.
A non-developer's guide to APIs told through the wine shop owner's story — why an API is a 'safe gateway', why building one is hard, and what you can try today without any prior knowledge.
From paper ledgers to spreadsheets to databases — a relational database primer for non-developers, told through the growth story of a small wine shop.
What AI does well, what it doesn't, and the two things every small business must prepare — a practical guide to data and APIs.
Learn how to receive order data through 3Min API and automatically log it to Google Sheets and send Slack notifications using n8n — no code required.
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