Code as Craft

Our friends at Aviary are organizing a ginormous Photo Hack Day this Saturday the 20th, and we’re psyched to be there! What makes this hack day so amazing? The winning hack will be featured on the NASDAQ billboard in Times Square.  Seriously! This is a photo-themed hack day, so we’re looking for hacks that do […]

UPDATE: We were blown away by the response at Maker Faire Detroit, with over 800 people playing Whack-A-Treasury!  We also received three Editor’s Choice ribbons from the editors of Make: magazine! Next stop: World Maker Faire in Queens September 17 and 18. In the meantime, we’ve put our source code on GitHub.  Check it out! Maker Faire, […]

Some of the most productive tools out there come from the command line and so when you’re testing REST-based requests it makes a lot of sense to use the command line tool curl. But since the OAuth protocol uses 3-legged authentication, and there are several tokens and other intricacies to handle, it makes curl very […]

Wow!  Judging took a lot longer, and was a lot harder than we expected.  In all, there were 34 eligible entries.  We were especially happy to have 8 mobile entries, spanning the gamut from iPhone/iPad to Android, Blackberry, and Windows mobile.  This is great news for everyone who’s been wanting to browse Etsy on their […]

Note: This is the third update to the original post from September 15th. Four finalists in each category (buyer tools, seller tools, mobile) have been notified and the final round of judging is underway to determine who will win the three $5,000 grand prizes and the five $500 “honorable hacks.”  We appreciate your patience and will announce […]

Etsy is sponsoring its first-ever application contest. To enter, create a new and fully functional application using the exciting new features in Etsy’s API v2. Your app should fall within the broad categories of Buyer Tools, Seller Tools or Mobile.

Today I’m pleased to announce the pilot program of Etsy’s new read-write API, version 2. For a few months now, we’ve made veiled references to “the next version of the API” in response to bugs and feature requests for our current API, but hadn’t made any official announcements or given a timeline.  Behind the scenes, […]