[mgadams3]

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

[wmeredith]

Twitter 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]

Let the sharecroppers do all the research, development, marketing, refinement. Then steal their thunder.

Been there, been done like that.

[jeltz]

It 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-pla...

[tiborsaas]

SoundCloud said the same and they turned their back on the developer community.

It probably happened to many other platforms too

[DigitalSea]

Twitter has famously done the same thing a few times as well.

[mgadams3]

There are lots of differences but yes, it's a calculated risk we feel good about given those differences.

[DonHopkins]

What 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]

Good question!

Here are their docs: 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.