We need more folks sharing stuff like this to get people inspired to look under the hood. I just started playing with the API myself, but I'm a JavaScript guy, so everything is node / steem-js. My challenge is the lack of documentation. The API is documented as far as what functionality is available, but it's like pulling teeth to try and find the specifications for some of the objects that the methods require as arguments. I started writing up and sharing my efforts last night, hope to post more soon.