Hi, I'm the founder of Coderloop.com, a programming competition platform. Our platform is able to test user submitted programs against a problem spec. We also support specs that require the user to write a program that interacts with an HTTP server (an example here http://www.coderloop.com/puzzles/islands ).
If you are interested we can build some puzzles dedicated to your API. :)
wibblenut|15 years ago
The scope for my contest would be more loosely based than solving a specific problem criteria, although that could be an added fun twist! I anticipate people would build apps for phones, plugins for other software, services to help users, etc. Many companies run competitions of this nature, e.g. Twilio.
I could run off some ideas for what's needed if you'd be interested in expanding Coderloop to support a contest like this?