Want to make a WordPress App for Kiva

[Rohan]

I have read your TOS which says "Be your own brand" which is a little
confusing. I am planning to make a free wordpress plugin, host it at
WordPress.org so that people can display new loans/borrowers etc on
the sidebar of a website. There are a lot of non profit websites that
run on wordpress and would like to use this app.

What I want to know is, since you mention that the use of APP_ID is
recommended, does that mean that the app will be hosted on Kiva among
other apps OR not (since you asked to 'be your own brand')?

I am an engineering student looking to make no money out of this app,
and I would like it if it is featured on Kiva for the free and
unconditional use of all wordpress site owners. Is there a way to get
it listed on the Kiva apps page http://www.kiva.org/apps and do you
encourage it? Or does 'be your own brand' subtly mean that 'feel free
to build any app using our API, just don't get us involved' ?

[Kevin O'Brien]

The app id just gives us a good way to see who is using the API and give us a way to troubleshoot if you run into issues. Use something unique so it will be easy to find if need be. 

As for the Terms of Service, I think they stand for themselves, but you can see examples of the other apps and can model your app after them. 

As for getting your app featured, I think we basically try to feature apps that are found useful by the community, so assuming you write a good app and users find it to be useful, then we'd probably invite you to write a blog post about it for our engineering blog and potentially feature it, but it's really all about the community and how useful your app is so there are no guarantees that your app will appear listed somewhere. 

Cheers,

-k

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[Martin Butt]

Hi Rohan,

We are happy to have anyone use the API to create useful apps for the community.

"Be your on brand" is our way or encouraging developers to create apps that are branded in their own right. And to not just call their apps things like:

Kiva Web

Kiva App

Kiva Whatever

An app_id is just a string that identifies your app. We encourage its use, so that you can get statistics about your apps performance. We are also in the process of forcing the app_id to be a reverse notation domain name. So, if your website is kiva.somecoolkivaapp.com, then you should add app_id=com.somecoolkivaapp.kiva to your requests.

Good luck!

Martin

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[Noah Balmer]

Hi Rohan, 

"Be your own brand" came about, in part, because we don't want independent developers making apps that appear to be built by Kiva, and can potentially be misleading to end users.  End users should know that they're using a third-party product, not something developed by Kiva.

If you want an app listed in the app gallery, just drop us a note here with a link and description, and we can add it.

Also, thanks for working on this project!  We like it when people find good uses for the API, and I hope the terms of use don't seem unfriendly. 

-Noah