IFTTT Triggers Loyal, Nerdy Following

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/28/ifttt-triggers-loyal-nerdy-following/

by atularora • 15 years ago

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olefoo3• 15 years ago

I want ifttt to charge money or drop ads on the emails I have it send, or something that makes it so that the service itself will have staying power.

Also, box.net if you read HN, pay them to make adding you as a channel a priority.

mikeknoop2• 15 years ago

You might keep an eye on Zapier (our startup, https://zapier.com) if you're looking for a paid service. Similar functionality for a lot of things - still building and iterating.

olefoo3• 15 years ago

I can see what you're doing and even sort of admire the hustle. But in the grand scheme of things ifttt.com will always have the stronger brand.

For one thing, they work now, and I give them my auth proxies because they do useful things for me. I don't have to give them my email on the promise of a "Sneak Peak". (You may want to fix that, the word you want is "peek".)

And as a fast follower you come off as a bit sleazy; your efforts here and in the comments of the TC story, and the fancy landing page with no test drive make me think that the product isn't quite ready. And I'm not seeing the value add, if I need some of what you're offering, why do I need you to middleman when most of the services you name have their own APIs? Are you saving me enough time and headache that you're worth the bother? Why should I trust you with my business?

In my world, at the moment; IFTTT is a toy with potential, I want them to add more channels, I want them to open up the API so I as a service provider can register channels both inbound and outbound. I want them to have a business model that works because I like them and they are useful. I want to be able to set up searches with plexusengine or duckduckgo and pipe them to my flipboard; I want to copy the text of articles about things I care about to a folder in box.net; and based on what I've seen; IFTTT can do that.

Whereas I only have your vague promise that I might be able to do all that some time soon maybe with a product you're not willing to show the world yet. IFTTT seems focused and capable, you guys... seem like a hype machine in search of something that works.

j_s• 15 years ago

Essential IFTTT (IfThisThenThat) - Programming Workflows for Humans using the Web's Social Glue

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/EssentialIFTTTIfThisThenThatPr...

Scott Hanselman explained IFTTT as a simplified Yahoo! Pipes.

nvk2• 15 years ago

It's a great service, I've been using for a couple weeks now. I'd pay 4.99 a year for it.

foobarbazetc• 15 years ago

You've just summed up why it'll never go anywhere apart from acquisition: $4.99/year/user is not enough to run any sort of business.

It's a very hard concept to scale, both business wise and tech wise.

nvk2• 15 years ago

I'm not incredibly familiar with their setup, but as a consumer i can say with confidence that is not a service that i would pay a cent more than 0.99/mo

dlsspy• 15 years ago

I tried out IFTTT (it tells me) three days ago. It's never run any of my tasks, though. I'd really like to see something awesome happen.

linden• 15 years ago

Happy to help debug in case its a problem on our end! http://ifttt.com/contact

rglover• 15 years ago

I'm a big fan of IFTTT. It's dead simple and works as advertised. Excited to hear they're getting support from Betaworks (where the idea will actually grow and be developed properly, not just mined).

ajays• 15 years ago

IFTTT reminds me of Yahoo Pipes http://pipes.yahoo.com/

sprobertson• 15 years ago

These guys did a good job of making the same API connection concept a lot less obtuse... I can't wait to see more projects like that in the future (hint hint)

IFTTT Triggers Loyal, Nerdy Following

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