Pokeman Go game has taken over few countries by storm in last 5 days. Daily Active Users has put Pokémon GO neck and neck with Twitter, and in a few more days, Pokémon GO will likely have more Daily Active Users than the twitter. At the same time, it added nearly 11 billion $ valuation to the Nintendo Company.
Pokeman Go uses Google Maps APIs. APIs powers Pokeman Go game. It's a great example how quickly you can innovate & re-use existing services via APIs to quickly build Apps, Scale to billions of API calls, Millions of APP Users.
A slack conversation by #APIGEEKs is the idea behind this post & a fun article that explains what if Apigee Policy names are replaced with Pokeman Go Characters for fun ? @kevinswiber & @Carlos Eberhardt came up with first few hilarious names & let me add more to the list here for fun. I will leave it to community to figure which names relates to which API Policy 😉
- Assignachu Message Puff
- Accelgor Conceldurr Puff
- Accelgor Entei Puff
- Excadrill Variluxxe Puff
- Steelix Colyster Puff
- Joltik To Xatu Puff
- Xatu to Joltik Puff
- Spinda Arces Puff
- Balbasur Accelgor Entei Puff
- Joltik Throh Probapass Puff
- Raichu Furret Puff
Feel free to add more in comments 🙂
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