What we're building — MVP scope & what an API is

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plot directly by pressing the spacebar. I'll just keep it pressed. So what I'm trying to build is a Chrome extension, which can help me extract membership request emails. So basically, membership request will have questions. And I want to extract those questions. And then I'll have an Apps Script call, which will basically put all that information inside my Google Sheet. One thing that you need to learn is how to make something smaller. What a lot of these companies did, which kind of helps with the membership request and stuff, they added a lot of extensions. What does the extension means? Email connectors, they wanted to send emails themselves. They wanted to have an option to directly sync with other email providers. Now I knew that I'm trying to create a minimum viable product. Whenever you're creating a product, your goal is to create a minimum viable product, not the total replica of what someone has been building for a year or maybe longer. So what I did was I was like, look, I don't have to put these emails into the email provider. That recent time, I learned about Apps Script. If you don't know what Apps Script is, Apps Script-- I'll quickly Google that. I mean, Apps Script is kind of a JavaScript, but it basically works on Google products. So this is how it looks like, script.google.com. And if you're building anything above Google products, you have this option of writing JavaScript. It's literally JavaScript, but few differences. Apps Script, right? So what I was like, well, I can just extract the information from the UI, make an API call. API is basically just like a web page. So for example, this is a web page. This, again, is a web page where you can enter information. API is something which does not have the UI. API just works on Get, Post, these kind of requests. So what does the Get, Post does?…