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Instagram did this a long time ago with their API - they require you pass a Permissions Review [0] where you submit your featureset along with a website landing

by css 8y ago

Instagram did this a long time ago with their API - they require you pass a Permissions Review [0] where you submit your featureset along with a website landing page (ex. for a product offering) for review by a human who then can accept or deny your application. [0] https://www.instagram.com/developer/review/ https://www.instagram.com/developer/review/

nkozyra 8y ago
This is also the approach Facebook has taken in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica debacle. Everything has shifted back to the walled garden approach. Twitter had destroyed a wide ecosystem of applications that promoted their brand several years ago via a similar approach. FB has done (and may be again doing) the same. The message remains clear: don't build your business on another business without contracts and guarantees. When the utility of having you as a promotional instrument wears off, they will dump you.
- css 8y ago
  > don't build your business on another business without contracts and guarantees Or even with them: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/
  - meesterdude 8y ago
    That's... amazing. These two tweets really show just how WTF this was > A vendor notified us of their acquisition at 6am this morning and shut down their APIs 30 minutes later, creating a production outage for npm (package publishes and user registrations). The sheer unprofessionalism of this is blowing my mind. > It takes weeks to negotiate and sign an acquisition. You didn't find out at 6am. You couldn't give us a week? Even a couple of hours to take your service out of our critical path and avoid an outage? Fucking shocking behavior.
thoughtpalette 8y ago
The number one reason I stopped developing an Application based on IGs API. The hoops you have to jump through was insane. Full paragraph explanation for each permission you're requesting. (meh) Video of the app working. Only can use personal account for testing/polling API.

by css 8y ago

nkozyra 8y ago

This is also the approach Facebook has taken in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica debacle. Everything has shifted back to the walled garden approach. Twitter had destroyed a wide ecosystem of applications that promoted their brand several years ago via a similar approach. FB has done (and may be again doing) the same. The message remains clear: don't build your business on another business without contracts and guarantees. When the utility of having you as a promotional instrument wears off, they will dump you.

css 8y ago
> don't build your business on another business without contracts and guarantees Or even with them: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/
- meesterdude 8y ago
  That's... amazing. These two tweets really show just how WTF this was > A vendor notified us of their acquisition at 6am this morning and shut down their APIs 30 minutes later, creating a production outage for npm (package publishes and user registrations). The sheer unprofessionalism of this is blowing my mind. > It takes weeks to negotiate and sign an acquisition. You didn't find out at 6am. You couldn't give us a week? Even a couple of hours to take your service out of our critical path and avoid an outage? Fucking shocking behavior.

thoughtpalette 8y ago

The number one reason I stopped developing an Application based on IGs API. The hoops you have to jump through was insane. Full paragraph explanation for each permission you're requesting. (meh) Video of the app working. Only can use personal account for testing/polling API.