API consumer focused
Developer Portal Survey 2018
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Details

Survey is directed at developers who use developer portals. Survey is part of long term API Economy related research. Survey is implemented with LimeSurvey and all responses are anonymised.

Purpose

Aim is to collect information about developer preferences, what works and what does not work. Results can be used in designing new developer portals, drive more trafic to APIs accessed via more attractive and developer focused API portals. Results also help in understanding what kind of content works in B2D marketing.

Survey participation is anonymized

Target audience

The survey is targeted at application developers who utilize APIs in building new apps.

Survey structure

First set of questions is about expectations. What kind of items developers want to see when they enter portal?

Second set is empirical material based.

The last part is background information about respondents.

Data policy

Although universities are not involved in this research, it is conducted according to principles of proper scientific research. Results might end up in academic article written next year. Collected data (anonymised) will be uploaded to Github for others to consume (in further research).

Survey does not ask for your email, name, address, age or gender information. Questions related to your background are in the last section and those are not mandatory.

Since survey is answered anonymously GDPR does not apply. Read more about API Economy Hacklab data policy

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It takes about 10-15 minutes to complete survey.

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Research enablers

Timeline of the research

Planned timeline of the research. I'm doing the research on my freetime and thus timeline is rather relaxed.

  • July - Aug 2018

    Background research

    After the summer I went through previous research about developer portals. I also visited plenty of portals and discussed the topic with my developer network members.

  • Sept - Oct 2018

    Prepare and test survey

    In September I crafted the survey for most parts. In October survey was tested by a developer (API Consumer) to verify that it makes sense.

  • Nov 1st - 20th 2018

    Survey open!

    Survey will be open for 20 days.

  • Nov - Dec 2018

    Analysis and publication

    The results are analyzed and blog post will be written in Medium.com. Survey data is uploaded to Github.

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Researcher

Survey is academic and follows good academic practices.

Jarkko Moilanen

Researcher, API Economist, Author of API Economy 101 -book

Survey is conducted by Jarkko Moilanen, PhD (Peer Production Driven Ecosystems). Jarkko has conducted several surveys among hacker and 3D printing communities.

For the past 6 years Jarkko has focused on API Economy and Developer eXperience (DX) is his passion. Jarkko is also igniter and author of API Economy 101 book (in Finnish), founder of APIOps (term coined by Jarkko 2015) and API Finland communities, organizer of APIdays Nordic 2016.

More information about Jarkko can be found from LinkedIn

Contact information

For further questions, contact details below

Jarkko Moilanen (PhD)

Email: jarkko@vimo.fi
Twitter: @kyyberi