Great list of partners. I wonder if those companies will be seeding experts with their employees or if they're actually reaching out to their own communities?
The mature companies all have experts from their eco-systems, the younger one's that want more customer interaction and development have put in-house members forward.
The point of the program is to empower the most distinguished developers in the partners' communities, so our preference is to work with community experts.
We're (sendwithus.com) proud to be a partner -- I think this is really huge, having implemented many of these API's before. Just knowing what's possible with a product/API can be difficult, and pulling in an outside expert can really help at that.
I think it's also a really awesome way for a startup like us to test if there's value in us having services that share our subject matter expertise.
This is awesome news. Even though most of the APIs are really well documented, AirPair would be very useful for getting help with fixing those little bugs with integration that can take hours to figure out. I would have loved something like this when I was working on a project with Twitter's API a couple months ago.
At TokBox, we get many requests for help integrating our API to add live video chat into existing products. I think that AirPair's expert integration will be a great resource to offload some of that work to our community who are already familiar with our platform.
It's also a great way to endorse the community developers who you know are top-notch and have worked hard to establish themselves as leaders in your community.
The most popular API request right now is Stripe. I find this interesting, since their API is one of the best documented ones out there. It's just a reflection of how high in demand they are.
We're currently focused on just building the best network of experts. Developing products to streamline the help of our experts will be a part of stage 2 (great suggestion btw!!).
Yep, we hope that we can contribute to the popularity of our partners' APIs by helping them establish a healthy developer ecosystem and empower their developers to build businesses on top of those APIs.
