Feedster Developer's Contest

Published 12 November 04 by Justin French

After just attempting to sign-up and “do stuff” on their site, I’d rather be given the task of redesigning their UI, re-coding their forms, re-writing all that long-winded copy and revising their process’, but in the meantime I figure I can just enter the competition!

The catch is don’t use Feedster, don’t really know anything about what they do (or do differently to their competitors) and have no idea what APIs they have available. If I don’t have a clue, there’s not much chance of me writing anything useful, innovative or desirable.

That’s where you, my loyal readers come in. Hopefully some of you use Feedster, and have some ideas on what might be useful. If you can inspire me to write something that actually wins, you can have the iPod! I’ll take the fame, you can have the fortune. In the unlikely event that we win the top prize (2 iPods), we’ll split it.

Looking at the categories to be judged, my guess is I’ll have the most chance of winning “Best use of Feedster with a publishing engine like TypePad or WordPress” by building some form of plug-in for Textpattern or Wordpress (both PHP based). There’s always the “Oddest use of Feedster” and “Wildcard” categories, so let your ideas run wild!

Send me an email with your idea, and we’ll see what we can do. I’ve left comments open for this entry, but I’d rather have the ideas sent to me via email – no point giving away a good idea eh?