I built the API directory ProgrammableWeb should have been

Every time I started a new project, I'd end up in the same loop: googling "best weather API," opening six tabs, finding three dead links, one behind a paywall, and two with docs from 2019. The public API landscape is massive and fragmented. No single place puts it all together in a way that actually helps you pick. ProgrammableWeb was the closest thing to that place. It shut down in 2023. Nobody replaced it properly. So I built https://patchbay.cc . What makes it different 3,100+ public APIs across 56 categories: geocoding, machine learning, finance, crypto, sports, and everything in between. Every API is tagged with auth type, HTTPS support, and CORS compatibility so you can filter to what actually works for your stack before you open a single tab. But the catalog isn't the interesting part. The technical decisions Liveness checking. APIs die quietly. patchBay runs automated checks that detect dead links, domain moves, auth changes, and HTTPS downgrades. 67 APIs are already flagged as