# For a developer tool, the integration is the product

- Category: product
- Author: Mihai (https://indie.md/people/mihai-balint/)
- Source: https://indie.md/journeys/mihai-ocrskill/
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OCRskill's customers are developers, and what they buy is not the OCR model, it is never having to write brittle string parsing again. The API takes a schema and returns a typed object that matches it. For a developer tool, the quality of the integration (how few steps it takes to go from request to usable data) is the actual product, and the underlying technology is just how you deliver it. Spend disproportionate effort on the API surface, the docs, and the first five minutes. That is the part your buyer experiences and the part they tell other developers about.