The key here is that SPL has the opportunity to only improve and grow SteemIt. This API doesnt seem to work and as you said the docs suck tuck. I think a lot of the devs, or the few that still have it working, are either too busy or like to keep it inside knowledge. If the reason for the API is to grow steemit and allow outside applications, then a quick walk through on how to get the transactions to work would help. I was able to get everything figured out except this aspect. But it almost seems as if its a secret. Usually github docs are self explanatory. This one is a mess. You guys are making bank and if you want this to grow as mentioned many times please invest the time/money to fix the documentation for this aspect of steemit. I would like to use it. Not to be rich but to improve how the process of accounts and transactions as well as amazing communities like SPL use Steem. SteemIt and steem has soo much room to grow still.
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I think you've hit the nail on the head, @nicnas. Unlike other platforms where people do stuff for free and the geek factor, here it seems to be all about how much money they can mine out of the system with 'first-movers' advantage. They don't want to help others as that would mean reducing their own chances for cornering the app market (which due to the nature of steem means even free apps can generate good income).
I don't think that is the case. I have only been here on steemit for a week and a day. I have seen a lot of Oh-Woh is me drama directed toward the people that have been here from the beginning, and I have seen the "Old Timers"Documentation available to help those developers than what is available now. Also, those early app developers had a much smaller knowledge base to ask questions of. My conclusion to seeing this thread is sour grapes. Never the less I have upvoted it, because I believe it is a sour grape thread, of someone wanting votes and attention. Just my view. bending over backward to help people. As @ned pointed out, there are apps available. Someone built those apps. Those apps that have been out for awhile, most likely had a lot less