Developer Space (D-Space)

• Cloud credits to help developers build products (Can we offer such credits or initial incentives?)

• Early access to pre-release APIs and SDKs

• Mix of Free/Paid Online courses both for the development and design

• Featured talks and articles for design, development, distribution and monetizing (Training modules to help developers market and sell their products)

• Spotlight: Featured startups are shown here (first hand lessons, challenges and tactics) (Featuring developer of the month gives them an incentive to participate and build products, etc)

• Getting invited to the startup launch events around the world

• Week-long bootcamps for early stage startups (Focused on the subject, Business oriented, practical tips, marketing and presentation skills) (Interesting but maybe out of scope for P4A)

• Mentorship from Startup Launch mentor network

• UX reviews by Google Developer Relations and Startup Launch mentor for selected startup

• Libraries and APIs

• Web Console

• JS Debugger

• Page Inspector

• Style Editor

• Profiler

• Network Monitor

• App manager

• Simulator

• Remote Debugging

• Responsive Design View (This feature can be useful for designers as well)

• Settings

• Layout Basics

• Styleguides

• Design Asset Library (A link to asset libraries for different platforms)

• Components guides

• Publishing and Monetization guides

• Developer Guide (CSS, Graphics, Wbe APIs, HTML, XML, SVG, UX, etc.)

• Accessibility

• Security

• Demos

• Featured Demos (Showcasing selected products not just on the D-Space, but on the entire platform)

• Hacks Blog

• Feedback channels in Stack Overflow

• Members can edit documentations and showcase their work

• Contributors receive Mozilla gear, invitation to Mozilla related events and considered for internships

• TestDay: Global, virtual events to test a particular product or feature. Meant to teach people the skills necessary to contribute to Mozilla  (Maybe every month a particular product is selected for testing, and review by the community)   

• All parts are created by an open community of developers. All services are free (You can find several pages that are not reviewed or completed)

• Sustained through donations

• SDKs

• Programs certificates (Xcode) (Offering certificate for commonly used programs)

• Programming language (Swift)

• TestFlight Beta Testing (Inviting internal & External testers)

• Review and Follow Guidelines after submission to App Store

• Bug Reporter

• iCloud Design Guide

• iOS & OS developer library (Guides, References, Release Notes, Sample Code, Technical Code)

• Apple Capabilities guidelines and Framework Reference (WatchKit, Touch ID, Apple Pay, etc.)

• Videos form Apple Worldwide Developers Conference

• iOS & OS videos

• Tech Talks

• Developer Forums (Paid Service)

• Annual Worldwide Developers Conference

• Subscription fee for technical support & resources and access to pre-release software

• Free Cloud Services

• APIs and SDKs

• Visual Studio

• Documentations for APIs and other references

• Developer Code Sample

• MSDN Library (Design & Development Tools and Languages, Mobile/Web/Office/Windows Development)

• Customer Access Program: Connecting promising startups with mature ideas to the Microsoft's global customers (Matching Products/Developers with an idea to the right backers, or customers)

• Local Innovation Centers to provide resources and support for students, entrepreneurs and startups (Low or No cost training)  (Interesting but maybe out of scope for P4A)

• Microsoft Virtual Academy (Courses, Live Events, Top students)   

• Channel 9: featured videos, interviews and talks

• Imagine Cup: Global Students Technology Competition  (For issues/ideas/questions that are raised by many P4A users)

• Developer Blogs and Forums

• Accelerators: for promising early-stage startups and first time entrepreneurs (3-6 Month mentoring/ technical guidance and connection to other startups)

• Local Tech Advisers   

• Know it Prove it: a month long challenge to improve your skill and complete a set of required modules (Leveling up your skills and turning consumers to producers)   

• Subscription fee for some of the services

• SDK Download

• App Testing (simple drag and drop)

• Live App Testing (App distribution in the app stodere prior to release to be tested by Amazon Testers)

• A/B Testing on the fly (Useful tool for startups and entrepreneurs)

• Learning Center (videos, documentations, case studies)

• Marketing tips (Distribution, Traffic, Trademarks)

• Amazon Coins Rewards to Customer to Improve Conversion

• Enhanced merchandising to improve discovery

• Free App of the Day (Featured merchandising)

• Developer Promotion Console (Increasing sales, monitoring results, controlling pricing options) (It's very interesting but I don't know how it can be used in the D-Space)

• Events and Webinars

• Amazon Blog

• Amazon Forum

• Amazon Developer Evangelist (Based on the developer's acquired badges, reviews and participation level, s/he can be nominated as an evangelist)

Code Climate: Automated code review for Ruby, JS, and PHP.

• Multiple ways of quickly understanding the state of code at a glance

• Uses many visuals to convey status:

  • "A" to "F" scale to indicate the grade of a particular item

  • Up and down icons to indicate when something has improved or declined

  • "Hotspot" sidebar widget to show where important trouble spots are e.g. https://codeclimate.com/tour/feed

  • In dashboard view, security issues are called out for easy viewing.

• Notifications for when status changes.

• Project Feed to monitor any changes on the code base

• Dashboard enables users to see multiple projects state at a glance

• Easy Toggle between test coverage and code quality

• List of all features

JS Hint: Scanning programs written in JavaScript to report commonly made mistakes and potential bugs e.g. syntax error, a bug due to implicit type conversion, a leaking variable.

• There is a sidebar which summarizes the code and identifies possible issues. As you hover over the identified issues, the related piece of code is highlighted.

Travis-Ci: Continues integration service used to build and test projects hosted at GitHub.

• Uses visuals to convey status:

  • Badges to show if the build is failing, passing, unknown or if there is an error

  • The items on the build history, pull requests and branch summaries lists are labeled to show the status of the pulled requests (started, passed, failed)

• Easy option to download log

Bit Bucket: Private Code Repositories to host, manage and share Git and Mercurial repositories in the cloud.

• Repositories can be shared with team members

• Quick options to Merge, Decline or Approve changes

• Commits are interlinked with JIRA and can be resolved from the Bitbucket

• Capability to track your activity as well as your teammates

Google Code: Runs a project hosting service that provides revision control, an issue tracker, and a wiki for documentation.

• It has the following 3 sections:

  • Project home: project info, features, members, links

  • Wiki: documentations, comments, change logs

  • Source: Browse (branches, tags, etc), Changes (revisions, affected files)

Reddit

• A self-governed, community sourced news sharing site

• Default view is a list of trending items from a select number of sub-reddits (or "Subs"). Trending items are based on the number of views / clicks / votes.

• User can search and subscribe to Subs of a wide variety of topics

• Reddit has multiple metrics and economies in place

  • Gold - gold tokens are awarded by other users to people to encourage more good behaviour and participation. Gold token can be purchased by buying a reddit subscription or by earning them through participation.

  • Karma - there are two types of karma a user can earn: link karma, and comment karma. Karma is awarded by other community members by "upvoting". Conversely you can lose karma through "downvoting".

Community-sourced content with a micro-economy.

What becomes most visible is often what is more popular. Popularity alone may not be a good metric.