We have no problems with OSS API clients. (I've mentioned previously, but given that it is 2015, I'd expect most developers given the task "Do something with a novel API" to immediately start looking for the OSS client rather than sending in raw HTTP requests.) Our community has several of them ready to go: https://discuss.starfighters.io/t/helpful-external-tools/136
The more the merrier!
We'd prefer if folks exercised discretion with regards to posting solutions; many of our players find the existence of them anywhere demotivating.
All the Really Good Hackers are now heads-down writing ridiculously fast, OSS-but-completely-incomprehensible clients in Erlaskelleron that will be unbeatable for performance, ease of use, and phoning home trading strategies.
Please send me an email. I will give you a invite code to the beta, which will let you create an account to put your client up on the forum thread. (HNers who did not already spend a metric truckload of time writing clients: give us until tomorrow afternoon, please.)
"We have per-level leaderboards which give people a meaningful number to golf on, and additionally, we have discretion to (automatically or after human review) award additional badges for going above-and-beyond on a level. We’ll also do that outside of levels, too — I can imagine issuing badges for people who, e.g., write OSS clients for our API, submit documentation patches, responsibly report security issues, etc." - http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/08/20/designing-and-building-s...
The more the merrier!
We'd prefer if folks exercised discretion with regards to posting solutions; many of our players find the existence of them anywhere demotivating.