I remember there was a time when “web services” were the new hotness and everybody was gonna offer some API to whatever they had online.
What happened to this? We’ve even got the authentication part nailed down now thanks to OAuth! There is even API gateways that you can park in front of your stack that manage all the hard parts like granting client secrets to API consumers and showing registration screens to developers.
There is really nothing stopping you from opening up parts of your stack to developers and tinkerers so they can do cool shit. It even gets people to lock into your product that much more because now they’ve integrated some part of their workflow into your system in a way that might not be possible without your service!
So yeah. You already have these API’s exposed for your front end apps to use. Why not just slam a developer portal on top and let people access some of it? Who knows what cool things they’ll cook up!
What happened to this? We’ve even got the authentication part nailed down now thanks to OAuth! There is even API gateways that you can park in front of your stack that manage all the hard parts like granting client secrets to API consumers and showing registration screens to developers.
There is really nothing stopping you from opening up parts of your stack to developers and tinkerers so they can do cool shit. It even gets people to lock into your product that much more because now they’ve integrated some part of their workflow into your system in a way that might not be possible without your service!
So yeah. You already have these API’s exposed for your front end apps to use. Why not just slam a developer portal on top and let people access some of it? Who knows what cool things they’ll cook up!