Last year when we added our Code Examples page we started off by offering a basic PHP script which you could insert into your webpages. We later expanded it with a proper function and opened a GitHub account.

Since then we've been looking at ways to expand the types of software that work with our API, our open approach to including third party developer clients and third party code on our example page has been a great way for us to increase the exposure of our API and to allow our customers to use the API more easily.

Earlier this year we added several more Minecraft plugins to the Examples page, four in-fact. And those plugins have resulted in many new people using our API.

Two weeks ago we further expanded the examples page by giving it a new interface that allows us to share many more code examples. One of the latest ones we've added is a C# console app assembly example written by a third party developer.

In exchange for writing that example he received a paid tier account for a period of five years with the volume of queries he needs for his software. We love doing deals like this because it benefits both parties. He had already written the integration code for his own software and simply by sharing it, he has secured access to our API for several years.

We want to do more of these kinds of deals and so if you have some code examples for C++, C, JAVA or Node.js please let us know about them, we would love to give you a paid account in exchange for sharing your code, plugin, class or function with us and not only will we feature it on our website but you'll receive full credit and we're more than happy to link to your personal website, GitHub projects and Twitter account.

We've spoken previously about third party software that integrates our API and our stance is still the same, you can integrate the API however you wish in any software you release and you are free to monetise the software you make, you don't owe us a penny of your revenue. We make our money by selling access to our API and so for us the client software is not a profit centre. We can prove our stance by actions as we do advertise a paid Minecraft plugin on our examples page which was written by a member of the Minecraft community and is not affiliated with us in any way.

So if you have the skills to make some great client software that you want to give away for free or sell at a profit, to you we say, hitch your wagon to our star, let us worry about maintaining an always accessible and accurate proxy detection API while you make great software.

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