Developing Applications for 2Performant networks is meant to be fun and rewarding. As a developer you can make something that is distributed and used across all the 2Performant production platforms. Aside from the knowledge that people from all over the globe are using your application you also receive significant compensation if it creates results for Affiliates and Merchants.

There are three types of applications:

• Tool Widgets - small "sidebar apps" that affiliates can use alongside their regular content (like a widget that shows products that affiliates want from each merchant). Affiliates Only.
• Tool Modules - advanced constructions that add functionality to user's websites (like a price comparison module, a directory, or whatever else). Affiliates Only.
• Utilities - apps that extend the functionality of 2Performant. For example a Google Base Product Feed -> 2Performant Feed convertor. Merchants / Affiliates.

Getting Started 

• App Architecture
• see how apps are supposed to look like, and how 2Performant integrates with them.
• Download PHP example (Skeleton) application (php API wrapper included)
• use this as the building block for your app and it will take care of all the gory details
• Download Ruby example (Skeleton) application
• ruby version

• Extending the Skeleton applications
• from raw Skeleton code to a working and integrated App Howto
• Social Reactions - an opensource 2Performant/Twitter Widget mashup 

• Getting out of the IFrame
• Hooks
• Detecting if Users have Affiliate Cookies

• Tool (widget/module) <-> Utility Combination Apps

• API

Mailing Lists

• 2Performant Developers - Discussions about APIs, OAuth, Applications. Technically focused.
• 2Performant Developers RO
• You can have your own localized Development Group. Let us know.