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title: An API A Day
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date: 2016-07-11
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#### Keeps... other productivity away?
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[Update: GitHub org is available here with more info & rules.](https://github.com/apiaday)
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I've been in a bit of a slump lately, NodeMC hasn't
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been as inspiring and development has been a bit slow, other projects
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are on hold as I wait for third parties, so I haven't really been
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working on much development wise.
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#### So I can up with a challenge: **An API A Day**.
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The premise is simple -- Every day, I pick a new API to build an
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application with from [this list](https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/3wrswc/what_are_some_fun_apis_to_play_with/) (from reddit). From the time I start I have the rest
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of the day to build a fully-functional prototype, bugs allowed but core
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functionality must be there. And it can't just be a "display all the
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data" type app, it has to be interactive in some form.
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An example of this is [Artdio](http://gmem.pw/artdio), which was the inspiration for this challenge. I
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built the page in about 3 hours using SoundCloud's JavaScript API
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wrapper, just as a little "how does this work" sort of challenge.
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So how is this going to be organised?
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I'm going to create a GitHub organization that will house the different
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challenges as separate repositories. To contribute, all you'll need to
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do is fork the specific day / API, copy your project into it's own
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folder (named YOURPROJECTNAME-YOURUSERNAME), then create a pull request
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to the main repository. I don't know the specific order I personally
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will be going through these APIs, so chances are I will bulk-create
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repositories so you can jump around at your own pace, or you can request
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a specific repository be created.
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If you have any questions or need something cleared up, feel free to
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[tweet at me :)](https://twitter.com/gmem_)
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