Hacking on Rd.io at Spotify - Only Two APIs??
This is part of my experience when I attended the Spotify NYC hackathon in 2013.
Recently, I found the original CrowdPlay codebase and looking through the code.
Seems like my memory of the events and what the code show are different.
One thing I seem to emphasize is that there was two APIs integrated for CrowdPlay - Rd.io (music) & Twilio (telephony)
Well, looking at the code, I seem to connect to the following APIs:
Considering all the things that happens in CrowdPlay, using multiple APIs made things easier - especially Echo Nest’s lookup feature!
Funny thing, Echo Nest is now part of Spotify, so I technically did hack on the main sponsor’s API, I just had to wait a couple of years.
😅
Looking at the codebase, I find there are more contributors than I remember