One of the things Matt men­tioned in the State of the Word this year was the rise of WordPress as an app plat­form. After that keynote many peo­ple took it as their queue to come up to the Happiness Bar and ask ques­tions about using WordPress as the back­ground layer for apps. The inter­est is def­i­nitely there.

In light of that, I enjoyed Matt Eppelsheimer’s post yes­ter­day:

The WordPress plat­form essen­tially man­ages con­tent and authen­ti­ca­tion for us, gives us frame­works to build cus­tom UI and our own func­tion­al­ity, and offers extra fea­tures in the form of plu­g­ins devel­oped by a large com­mu­nity. It gives us every­thing we need to rapidly build our own cus­tom tools that fit our own process, style, and needs.

We’re tack­ling the low-hanging fruit first: We’re cus­tomiz­ing P2 to make our inter­nal dis­cus­sions less reliant on third party lim­i­ta­tions, and we’re build­ing a Parking Lot for action-oriented dis­cus­sions we’ve iden­ti­fied to iter­ate on the way we work.

There’s more to it as well. Rocket Lift wants to build their task and project man­age­ment on top of WordPress and per­haps take on an account­ing plu­gin. I know both of the Matt’s ¹ behind Rocket Lift and am stoked to see what they come up with. Should be fun.