You could develop both a protocol and a product that implements that protocol. That might be able to make it used much more than otherwise. People can write the

You could develop both a protocol and a product that implements that protocol. That might be able to make it used much more than otherwise. People can write their own implementation if they do not want the official one. You might have some optional features (which might be more complicated ones), that it can also be used without, in case the user does not want them, or if an alternative implementation does not include them. (There is no need to advertise this, although it should be documented.)