Necessity is the mother of all invention. It's been proven time and time again, and for blooming tech company Mashape (mash + shape, pronounced muh-shape), the story is no different.

The idea for a mass-market API store was born out of the work three young Italians had been doing for another tech company, in which they sold an "explosion" of APIs, in the words of CEO Augusto "Aghi" Marietti. Thus, the concept for a free marketplace for APIs, providing developers with much-needed middleware and accessible implementation tools, quickly took form.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano