Yo Channel

https://ifttt.com/channels/yo

by brettcvz • 12 years ago

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brettcvz• 12 years ago

New startup idea: "A single-tap, zero character way to control your life"

Edit: The above should be seen as a bit tongue-in-cheek.

minimaxir4• 12 years ago

This depends on your definition of "control." (specifically, the fact that you can only have one of these recipes active.)

sp3323• 12 years ago

Really? Why can you only have one active?

sp3323• 12 years ago

This reminds me of the alien language from Stargate. They had plans to make a whole language, but the vocabulary used in the show actually got smaller and smaller until they just had one word, "Kree!" It's a command that means "do what you're supposed to!" The alien overlords would just yell it at whomever was standing around, like punctuation.

Leszek• 12 years ago

Lampshaded in one of the episodes where O'Neill asks what "kree" actually means, and the reply is that it's something along the lines of "yoo-hoo".

burke• 12 years ago

Hey now, there were at least two words. Chapa'ai meant "stargate". I guess "tok'ra" and "jaffa" count too, but I can't even think of any others.

Probably the least developed language of all time.

minimaxir4• 12 years ago

It should be noted that Yo's 15 minutes of fame are up: it's tanking in ranking in both App Stores.

http://i.imgur.com/IEjkirh.png

dennisnedry• 12 years ago

I've already heard NPR's MarketPlace refer to Yo even getting 15 minutes of fame as an indication that a "tech bubble" could be looming. What next, some kid makes an app that lets your phone dial somebody with one click? Oh wait, that's called Speed Dial.

IanCal• 12 years ago

A single tap, zero character communication tool capable of triggering an action on a remote service. Is that just a button?

jjsz• 12 years ago

Yeah. It can be used to call waiters without investing into a raspberry pie / arduino and a bunch of rotary devices for each waiter when they all have phones.

eli5• 12 years ago

Wouldn't a text message do that too?

LeicaLatte2• 12 years ago

Bubble!

LeicaLatte2• 12 years ago

OK.

But Bloomberg is with me now - http://www.bloomberg.com/video/is-the-yo-app-the-latest-exam...

eli5• 12 years ago

Does anyone know how IFTTT decides which channels to add? I assume some of them are paid?

I'd probably pay a few dollars for a version that was more open and supported e.g. webhooks. But I guess that's Zapier.

mikeknoop• 12 years ago

Curious what your looking to rig up, any reason Zapier doesn't fit the bill for you?

kevinebaugh• 12 years ago

We're always listening for new Channel ideas over here: http://ift.tt/ChannelSuggestion We're also working on a way for developers to build on IFTTT. Check that out here: http://ift.tt/platform

What sorts of Recipes would you like to set up?

eli5• 12 years ago

The big one is HipChat, which I've already suggested at least twice :)

Otherwise, it would just be cool to be able to use IFTTT as part of custom little programs. For example, I have a script that notices when a url on our server suddenly gets a spike in traffic. It would be cool to be able to have push to a IFTTT API and have it trigger whatever actions I want. Likewise, it would be cool to have webhooks so that I could have some custom action that's triggered by IFTTT. Maybe this is outside the scope of how you want people using the service.

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