I Turned My APIs Into README Badges — Here's Why
I've been running a small suite of web APIs — a dead link checker, an SEO auditor, and a performance monitor. The tools work. The problem is nobody knows they exist. I've tried the usual distribution channels. API directories with broken submission forms. Marketplaces where search results are ranked by popularity (catch-22 for new listings). Content marketing that gets views but zero referral traffic to the actual product. Then I had a thought: what if the product itself was the distribution mechanism? The Badge Insight Developers put badges in their READMEs all the time. Build status, code coverage, license type. Each badge is a tiny real-time widget that communicates something about the project's health. What if you could badge your website's health?   
