Releasing AddThis on Cloudflare Apps: Making Disciplined Product Design Decisions

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This post details the technical decisions and implementation for integrating the AddThis share buttons app into the Cloudflare Apps platform. It describes the process of paring down the AddThis feature set to a simple floating sidebar for faster launch and user feedback. The technical challenge of storing unique configuration settings without requiring user registration was solved by using a JS global variable with Cloudflare's INSTALL_SCOPE technique and the AddThis Smart Layers API to render tools and save settings.