shields

Shields opened my eye to a fascinating new potential shape of project. Sometimes a project depends on hundreds of even thousands of custom integrations. Think about a something like TripIt - it works by accepting forwarded emails from different travel reservation sites, but that means somebody has to write hundreds of custom email parsers for those sites and then update them on a continuous basis. This is prohibitively expensive and frustrating and difficult to do. ... and then Shields came along and did exactly that by making it open source and using open source development processes to maintain those integrations with the help of hundreds of collaborators: https://github.com/badges/shields/tree/master/services I've been keeping an eye out for similar shapes of project ever since I noticed this. It feels like there's a lot of potential h