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The ajax call to steemit's api was a pain though. I was stuck on it, wasn't working with getJSON. Then I redid it with good old ajax and setting the type to POST (after recommendation by @netuoso), but didn't work neither. I tinkered with it until I discovered it needed JSON.stringify! The rest is history.

I hear you, that's the fun with programming :D
Yet it is highly rewarding once you finally get things working !