Rapanui, an Award-Winning eco-fashion company from the Isle of Wight, challenges developers to integrate an apparel API to their projects with the possibility to win free customisable t-shirts and to monetise further their works. The virtual hack challenge is on until August 1st on the hackathon platforms the Hackfest and the Hackerleague: http://www.the-hackfest.com/events/rapanui-api-hack-challenge ; http://hackerleague.org/hackathons/rapanui-api-hack-challenge. The clothing firm came up with this little challenge to introduce their first IT product to the developer community.
Rapanui’s t-shirt API is an apparel print-on -demand service inspired by the internet of things movement. It allows users to create and print personalised shirts and can be integrated to any application (web, mobile, software) that lets users manipulate images, draw or design, or simply has great visual elements. Using POST method and API keys, the API returns a clothing product URL for any image file sent from an app. Users can then checkout through a completely customisable cart, Rapanui prints, packs and dispatch direct to the customer. When a sale is made through the service, the profit is split fifty-fifty between the company and the app developer.
The API connection is developer friendly: the sign up for an API account is 100% free, with no subscription fee; a full installation guide covering IPhone, Android and web integrations is provided; and sample code for Objective-C, AS3, HTML5, etc. is supplied so that any coder can get connected easily.
Find out more at http://rapanui.io. Step-by-step installation guide – https://rapanuiclothing.com/api-integration-guide. The t-shirt API is a project of Rapanui clothing – https://rapanuiclothing.com.