The HubSpot App Marketplace (Part 4): Tools to Build with and Platform Vision

With the HubSpot App Marketplace just a few months old, we've been really happy with not only the amount of development that's happening on the HubSpot Platform, but also the amount of HubSpot customer adoption that we've seen to date.  HubSpot App Marketplace apps have been installed by over 70% of HubSpot customers and trial users to date.  There are over 30 apps in the marketplace with some really exciting new apps coming soon including a new PPC spend analysis app, a webinar integration app and a new press release app.

I also wanted to highlight some tools for developers that will help aid interaction with HubSpot's APIs.  Apps that integrate with HubSpot's APIs have proven to be the most valuable to customers and have had the highest adoption rate to date.  We thought that creating wrappers for these APIs would help the development community use our APIs, so enter hubspot.github.com - the HubSpot Development Tool Chest.

Today, we have wrappers for Python (called PySpot), Ruby (called rHAPI) and PHP as well as some other tools that we like including a Twitter Bootstrap sandbox (more on this later). We'd love to hear what you think about the wrappers so we can improve them to make it easier for developers to work with the APIs.

I also wanted to share a slide deck form the recent HUGS Conference (HUGS stands for HubSpot User Group Summit).  The deck lays out some vision for the Platform in general, includes some information about future APIs that are close to coming out as well as some other useful ideas for building apps.  Enjoy!