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Cultivating an app ecosystem on their platform is a publicly stated goal of Zoom. Cutting off any start-up building on it would be counter-productive and lead t
by mgadams3 6y ago
Cultivating an app ecosystem on their platform is a publicly stated goal of Zoom. Cutting off any start-up building on it would be counter-productive and lead to their competitors gaining the advantage of innovation on their platform instead.
See: https://marketplace.zoom.us/competition https://marketplace.zoom.us/competition
- jeltz 6y agoIt would not be the first time a company cuts off parts of their app ecosystem. Strava has done so for example. https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/07/strava-relive-cc-app-platform-dispute.html/comment-page-1 https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/07/strava-relive-cc-app-pla...
- tiborsaas 6y agoSoundCloud said the same and they turned their back on the developer community. It probably happened to many other platforms too
- DigitalSea 6y agoTwitter has famously done the same thing a few times as well.
- mgadams3 6y agoThere are lots of differences but yes, it's a calculated risk we feel good about given those differences.
- DonHopkins 6y agoWhat features does Zoom's developer API support? Which do you use, and how do you like them? What other features do you hope they support in the future?
- mgadams3 6y agoGood question! Here are their docs: https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api But we use everything around recording, including live streaming. Zoom has a great team of folks in the developer forums that are really helpful. My biggest gripe would be that not everything that breaks gets documented and logged so it can be really frustrating when our service breaks b/c their webhooks are down and there is no status on their end that this is the case. We had a list of a dozen thing we wanted them to support when they started and they are all now in there... so pretty happy w/ progress.
- wmeredith 6y agoTwitter used to say the same stuff and they cut their dev community off at the knees once they got big enough (mostly because of said community building out their feature set).
- specialist 6y agoLet the sharecroppers do all the research, development, marketing, refinement. Then steal their thunder. Been there, been done like that.