Before I start this post I would just like to officially say that Flattr has a really outstanding community of developers that we are so happy to work with. This list includes the awesome folks behind the Flattr IOS Manager App, Superfav, Flattrstar, Youtify, Fundd, and many more. As if it couldn't get anymore awesome here comes … Continue reading Introducing Fleddit – Flattr, Reddit mashup!
Category: Developers
Useful posts if you’re a developer looking for ways to make your product works with Flattr or want to build something on top of our API.
We love music. But we know that it's tricky to directly support artists on the internet. As a service trying to empower creators we don't like standing to the side just watching. So we haven't! For a long time we have tried to crack how we can help artists to get money for the great … Continue reading Flattring artists with Grooveshark
We have for a long time been blessed with a vibrant developer community. Until now the offspring of the developers and Flattr has been totally invisible. There have not been any place to find applications built for Flattr. Now there is. Say "Hello" to our new App Gallery! In the gallery you can find mobile … Continue reading Introducing Flattr App Gallery
Last October we released a public beta of our new and much improved Rest API. Since then the API has evolved rapidly and is now considered stable and more than ready for production use. The development of Flattr has been rather intense during the last 6 months and a lot of improvements have been made … Continue reading Phasing out old API, upgrade your WordPress plugins!
When we announced the Developer Challenge in January our biggest concern was that not enough developers decide to participate. Instead we had a much tougher problem - how to decide on the winner. In the end we had to pick one and here it is… The first ever Flattr Developer Challenge was won by Ahmet … Continue reading And the Developer Challenge winner is… !
Sunday midnight saw the deadline of our Developer Challenge. After gazing into the middle distance for about 30 seconds we decided to change the rules just a tiny bit and give all the teams an extra week to improve, polish, fix their products. Get user feedback, or approval by Apple to actually be downloadable from … Continue reading Developer Challenge – rounding up the submissions
When we announced the Developer Challenge a month ago we weren’t sure how much and what type of entries we would get. So happy to see that so far quite a few individual developers and teams have sent in their solutions. Podcasting seems to be the hot topic. If you haven’t joined yet then you … Continue reading 6 days left in our Dev Challenge!
Here at Flattr we spend much time on IRC and lately we have a new friend, Hubot. Hubot is a chat bot built by GitHub that helps us out with tasks ( for example pulling funny images from internet ) and informs us of new deploys and such. Hubot doesn't only work with IRC but … Continue reading Flattr ❤ Hubot
What better way to kick off 2012 than with a proper developer challenge? We’re inviting all software developers, hackers, code slingers to get their API hats on and mash up Flattr in a new and incredible way. Back in November we released a new and improved Flattr API v2. We’ve now rooted out the bugs, … Continue reading Developer Challenge, January edition – it’s a GO!
If you can't use JavaScript on your site (or don't want to) we also have a way of submitting things via URL's. Here is the documentation for how to use the URL submit. Please bear in mind that the button will not have a counter. The URL format for submitting a thing is the following: … Continue reading URL Auto Submit Documentation