The week we announced our latest blockbuster, DudaAPI. Our new API opens up functionality that was previously unavailable to our partners and developers. Now you can integrate Duda into your own website to automate actions such as creating mobile sites, accounts, providing analytics and more. The complete documentation for doing this can be found at http://www.dudamobile.com/api-docs/
To help developers get started, here are a few use cases that we’ve put together as examples of how the API can be implemented. This really is a big one, guys, and we encourage all developers to experiment with DudaAPI to find new ways to incorporate it into their service!
Use case 1 – The Full Monty
You already offer top notch web services to your customers and feel that now is the right time to add a mobile option. With DudaAPI and DudaWhite, you can recreate the entire DudaMobile experience under your own brand. From site creation to editing and ongoing management, your customers can use our award-winning site builder, branded with your colors and logo. We even support single sign-on, so your customers can get into your version of the editor to update their mobile site directly.
Use case 2 – Boiler Room
It’s all about sales and nothing closes new business like a preview of a mobile site. Using API calls included in DudaAPI, potential clients can get a before and after preview of their mobile site right on your website. Sales teams can easily generate sharp previews ahead of calls or even right in front of prospective clients. This is a fantastic example of how DudaAPI can work for both DudaDesign and DudaWhite partners.
Use case 3 – Money Ball
Numbers are important! Your clients want performance and you give it to them. DudaAPI can pull site analytics into a consolidated dashboard so your clients can see their mobile activity right alongside traditional web metrics, advertising campaign performance or any other data you provide.
We’ve featured three partners already using DudaAPI in our press release earlier this week, and their stories were just too good to keep out of this post. They range from a small, two-person shop up to a large company with 350,000 customers. Take a look and see how each partner leverages DudaAPI to gain new customers and increase revenue.
DreamHost, a global web hosting and cloud services provider, partnered with DudaMobile last month to give their 350,000 customers the ability to easily create a mobile site with the single push of a button from within the DreamHost dashboard. To accomplish this, DreamHost embedded a fully-branded version of the DudaMobile editor into their own platform using DudaAPI.
“We’re dedicated to providing the best possible tools so our customers can mobilize their websites in a way that doesn’t require them to start from scratch,” said Simon Anderson, CEO of DreamHost. “We want to give our customers everything they need to build a site that works in a multi-screen world, and we’re proud to be working with DudaMobile, the leader in the mobile website space.”
AfterFive by Design, a medium-sized web design and professional web hosting company, used DudaAPI to create mobile versions of their client websites immediately after integration. Prior to using DudaAPI, the company considered hiring a developer to create more functionality in its mobile platform but thanks to DudaAPI, they no longer needed this costly hire.
“Our team was spending a lot of time manually creating mobile website previews and mock-ups, taking away our ability to cater to several customers at once,” said Todd Morrissette, founder of AfterFive by Design. “Since using DudaAPI, requests for mobile websites by our customers have easily quadrupled. It frees up time for our team to easily showcase a new mobile website and gives our customers all the tools to create these websites themselves on our platform. DudaAPI’s magic was a hit out of the gate and only took a day to implement.”
Two-person company, Cohlab, partnered with DudaMobile to help reduce the barrier of entry for the numerous small businesses looking for a quick and easy mobile web solution. To separate itself from the competition, Cohlab was very keen to find a unique way to make their mobile site creation experience as intuitive as possible. With DudaAPI, Cohlab was able to create new sales strategies to market to their SMB audience.
“All of the barriers of entry for creating a mobile website are removed with DudaAPI,” said Cliff Robbins, co-founder of Cohlab LLC. “DudaAPI is a very powerful and painless scenario to give our clients previews of their converted mobile websites. From a coding standpoint, the top-notch integration of DudaAPI is a much cleaner process for everyone and allows the created mobile websites to sell themselves. DudaAPI has easily surpassed our expectations, especially with its extensive documentation and attention to site security.”
These three use cases and example companies represent just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the capabilities of DudaAPI. As the mobile web becomes more and more integrated into consumers daily lives, providing your clients with a mobile option is simply no longer an option, it’s an absolute must. With the release of DudaAPI comes an incredible opportunity for developers and agencies of all sizes to innovate their service, grow their client base and drastically cut development time.
For the full documentation on how to implement DudaAPI visit http://www.dudamobile.com/api-docs/.