Agreed, this is an awesome idea. Medium clearly has a huge community of developers that use it as a reading platform. If they expanded the functionality and scope of their API I think some really awesome plugins would get made.

I know that as a growth stage startup they’ve got a lot on their hands when it comes to building. Why not let the users help you out and build cool things for you on top of your API! Loyal dev community + API expansion = growing the functionality of the platform for everyone.

Love your vision for the user products. Hopefully our friends at Medium will make some moves forward to help us, help them.