Our pitch to you, Developers
Website widgets are a hassle for Publishers to install. We have built Extendy from the ground up with the intention of opening it up to third-party developers to build plugins that Publishers can enable in one-click from their dashboard. Thus, once the Publisher installs our snippet of code once, they’ll never have to touch code again.
If you already have a JavaScript plugin/widget built, you’ll soon be able to tweak it to conform with our plugin template structure and Extendy can serve as another distribution method for you to Publishers. We can either host your JS file or you can.
We’re not ready to open up to all developers, but if you’re willing to work with our platform in its beta (you may find bugs; you may figure out a better way for us to do something), then we’d love to hear from you.
Our pitch to Publishers
After you install Extendy, we want you to be able to easily add more functionality to your website in one-click—no longer messing with code on your site again. We’re building up our library of plugins to offer to you and soon will be opening up to third-party developers to directly build more plugins for you, but until that time, we’re taking requests.
Plugins for web services that have APIs are much easier for us to build. Examples of possible plugins: digg (show the latest items you’ve dugg to your visitors), last.fm (show the latest tunes you’ve heard, to your visitors), tumblr (show your latest tumbles to your visitors), if your visitor comes from a search engine we could highlight their search phrase in your content, etc.
The possibilities are limitless and we only have so much time in a day, so in order to prioritize what we’re developing, we’d love to hear what’s important to you.