Interest in Netlify add-on development?
As many of you know, Netlify is pretty awesome and growing.
They have a promising add-on marketplace in Beta. Only FaunaDB and Very Good Security are available for now.
Surely, there are great opportunities in that nascent marketplace!
Anyone already working on something?
A little brainstorm of add-on ideas could be fun... I'll go first:
- Automated lighthouse reports after every build
- Automated alerts when a new version of your SSG is available
interesting...i love the lighthouse idea. along the same lines i've found webpagetest pretty useful. But how are these add-ons any different than using a Saas product straight up that exists already? looks like the add-on will help you use a 3rd party using your netlify credentials. In return, you'd still have to do things the 3rd party way in order for the add-on to work rt? for example - you want to use mailchimp, how is the integration and usage of mailchimp different as a standalone vs as a netlify add-on?
These add-on are different because they seamlessly integrate in your workflow. For instance, lighthouse reports would make sense because you'd want to trigger them right after a push to production. If there's an add-on, no need to set-up webhooks or anything.
Something like a mailchimp add-on could make it stupidly easy to send emails after a certain action on your website, somehow.
But, if your point is that one should have a product to start with, like FaunaDB and Very Good Security, I think you're right. Unless developing an Add-on that is extremely specific to the Netlify platform itself.