4 Steps API Challenge
Published on 04.09.10
Take fuss-free copyright management to the next level.
Get your hands dirty with Myows’ publicly available API, fresh from the desks of our globally-scattered development team. This brings us one step closer to our platform-vision: helping the planet’s switched-on creative community help themselves. We’re looking for Myows members to help us add further functionality to the existing app at Myows.com. The brief is straightforward:
1- Use the new Myows API to develop a plug-in, add-on or stand alone application that assists other Myows members in registering, protecting and/or managing their rights
2- Develop this solution in a way that allow users to access key functionality in 4 steps or less
3- Implement your code and design with integrity, simplicity and elegance
We’re looking for plug-ins, add-ons and stand alone applications that improve the user experience and add useful functionality. To participate, you’ll need to create a thread before 15th May in our API forum category and provide a link to a demo of your app.
Fellow Myows users will have the opportunity to vote for their favorites from 15th till 31st May 2010. The winner takes home an Apple iPad (yeah, we’re self-funded!) and so does the runner-up (…yet generous!). We are also busy putting together a panel of industry heavyweights to award a jury’s grand prize of 1000$ to the app that best fulfills conditions 1,2 & 3 above.
Finally, any developer who creates an app we deem to be even vaguely useful and presentable will receive a lifetime Myows pro account (valued at over 1000$). Again – that’s just the kind of guys we are.
Feel free to create apps for resale (on Themeforest or CodeCanyon for instance) or build your own business on top of the Myows API. Obviously, we’d like you much more if you made your work available to the world for free, but we’ll get over it.
Feel free to run ideas and questions by the Myows team and other members by posting them up on the Forum. We are all here to help. Good luck. Be creative.
EDIT: Nettuts has published a video tutorial prepared by Dave:
How to Create an App with the Myows API (15 minutes).
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I just wanted to add that Jon and Dave have worked hard for the last 3 months to be able to create and release our API. So this is a very big step for Myows and I hope you’ll make the most of it. (Twitter has enough apps already!)
We are all looking forwards to seeing what the geniuses of our community can come up with, and will do everything we can to assist you in creating your kick-ass apps or plugins.
Together, we will make a big jump into the future, and turn Myows into one of the top apps on the web.
So lets get working now.
This is great! I’m excited and can’t wait to see all the great stuff that is going to come from this.
I suck at programming, though I’d love to collaborate with a programmer interested in doing this. I’d then do the UI of the application.
Thanks Mike and Daan.
I’m very excited too.
Daan, perhaps you could start a thread on our forum to find a developer interested in working with you?
Also, Nettuts published a video tutorial explaining how to create a simple app based on our API: http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/general/how-to-create-an-app-with-the-myows-api/
It’s time for some brainstorming I think :).
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Nice – another API Challenge where I can win an IPad.
But I think developing an idea for an app will be difficult :D If I will have an Idea for an app, thank I can develop it, because I have already worked with OAuth :)
Now I’m workin’ on a mindmap :D
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