First, sorry for the long delay in announcing our API Developer contest winners. But we're excited and ready to announce them now!

Winners!

Best Mash Up

RED SHOE BLUE SHOE : The current top five hottest shoes purchased on zappos, by political party, in real time.

This app was brought to you by the Fort Clover Hacker Team aka Derrek, Brandon and Max out of lovely San Francisco. Congrats on building a fun app! Maybe with the winnings they can hire a designer to create a new logo! We kid, we kid...

The team mashed up our Stats API (http://developer.zappos.com/docs/api-statistics#Statistic_Types) with Google maps API and census data on the 2008 US Presidential Election. It's nice to that Dems and Republicans at least have Sperry Top-Siders in common.

Prize: $500 Value prize = $250 Gift certificate + $250 cash

Most Fun and Weird App

Pricecrisis.com : A price game where you have to guess the price of the Zappos item before the counter runs out. You can submit guesses and we will tell you if you need to guess higher or lower.

Creating fun and a little weirdness is a Zappos Core Value (http://api.zappos.com/CoreValue/3)!!

This app was brought to you by Frank hailing from NJ. We were surprised at how fun this simple little game could be. Frank also integrated Twilio and you can play via dialing in! It's no surprise that Frank has previously won a coding challenge over at Twilio earlier this year.

Prize: $500 Value prize = $250 Gift certificate + $250 cash

Best Overall Application

OutfitHer - It's a way to play virtual "dress up" with Zappos clothing, shoes, jewelry, and accessories. You search for items you're interested in and drag them onto your avatar. Once you're done, you can generate a link that you can share with your friends.

This app was brought to you by Scott from Omaha. The app is simple to use and has a lot of polish and utility. Great work Scott!

Prize: - $1000 Value - $500 Gift certificate + $500 cash

Thank You!!

Congrats to all our winners and all the participants who took time to play with our API. This was our first contest and it exceeded our expectations in terms of entries and creativity. When Zappos took on opening up an API, we were hoping folks would build fun and creative things on it. And it's amazing to see that happening.

Full List of Entries

Here is a list of all the other entries. You all did great. THANK YOU!

• FavStyle.com - a site that helps people find and compare unique and fun shoes from Zappos. It is dead simple and highly addictive (via Jonathan N from San Diego)
• Zearch - Zearch is a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that gives a very brief summary of Zappos search results for certain queries. The intent of Zearch is to let a user get a rough idea of cost / selection on a product very quickly, without having to spend a significant amount of time or research. Requires either Firefox or Chrome. (via Steve P from Las Vegas)
• ShoeCollection Android App - Shoe lovers, keep track of all the shoes in your wardrobe and rate your Shoe lovers, keep track of all the shoes in your wardrobe and rate your favorite heels, flats, or sneakers with this Android app. (via Seni from Sunnyvale, CA)
• Coldfusion Library - A partial implementation of a Coldfusion library to interface with the Zappos API. This library calls the Zappos API and turns the results into Coldfusion objects to help Coldfusion developers. (via Shannon from MN)
• ZapAlert - ZappAlert monitors your Zappos wishlist once a day for a drop in price in any of the items you've saved. If the price of one of your favorite items has dropped, you'll receive an email alert with the photo, title, price, and link to add the item to your shopping cart. (via Jed W from Illinois)
• Zappos Android App - Jason W. from Stanford also created an android app

WE <3 Our Developers

Internal Entries

We also had a small handful of internal Zappos developers submit an entry! They weren't eligible for the fun prizes above, but they got a lil something for it. Those entries are in an upcoming post!