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Re: Flow – Create automated workflows between your favorite apps

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Post by blahi »

phest wrote: post #32

I recommend digging into the available actions, this looks more flexible than anything else in this space (eg IFTTT, Zapier). There's control flow (if and while), and some actions aren't tied to any service: there's a "Recurrence" action that allows to trigger actions at specific intervals, an "HTTP" action that can send a request with any URL+method+headers+body+auth, there's a "Delay" action, FTP and SMTP output ac…

It's worth noting that this is just Azure logic apps with a front end. You can write API and Logic apps yourself and publish to your users.

Re: Flow – Create automated workflows between your favorite apps

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Post by mistermann »

keyle wrote: post #38

Side note - Is anyone else's CPU going mad on that page? Chrome PC just goes flat out sitting on that page. UPDATE: it's my adblocker. It blocks a part of the page and the javascript tries to constantly load it if it fails, resulting in about 1000 errors/second in the console :)

This might explain a long running mystery I've had when I have loooots of tabs open.

But then, how to find the tab that's stuck in that process? (In FF in my case.)

Re: Flow – Create automated workflows between your favorite apps

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Post by mistermann »

omarchowdhury wrote: post #33
mataug wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Should Zapier be worried ? Probably not, unless Microsoft suddenly forms a large division out of this and manages to get a 100 - 200 integrations going.

Zapier has a built in lock in in their business. Once you get workflows running why move them over to a new service.

Does Zapier allow you to download an xml backup of your workflow definitions?

If so, if a solid competitor arrives, that maybe has one killer feature, and they can read those xml files, you can move with minimal downtime.

Re: Flow – Create automated workflows between your favorite apps

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Post by dkarapetyan »

patomolina wrote: post #16
viraptor wrote: post #2

This seems like a IFTTT + pipes mashup? With multiple steps, simple logic blocks, and enterprise integration.

I don't know if IFTTT should be worried –or happy– about this.

Zapier is in the same game.

Re: Flow – Create automated workflows between your favorite apps

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Post by patife »

viraptor wrote: post #35
patomolina wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know if IFTTT should be worried –or happy– about this.

Maybe worried. I looked at IFTTT a few times and came back with "I'd like to use that, but I need a filter / processor in between". I suspect there are more people like that.

Pretty interesting. Which filtering or processing are you interested in doing?

Re: Flow – Create automated workflows between your favorite apps

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Post by Lio »

Off topic but the name, Flow, will get confusing fast.

Flow is already used by several projects including Facebook's Flow, a direct competitor to Microsoft Typscript.

Meanwhile FlowType.js helps with typography.

Not to be confused with Flowjs, which is for HTML5 file transfer.

This is probably going to end up in a search ranking dance off with whoever has the deepest pockets winning.

https://flowtype.org http://simplefocus.com/flowtype/ https://github.com/flowjs

Re: Flow – Create automated workflows between your favorite apps

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Post by keyle »

mistermann wrote: post #42
keyle wrote: post #38

Side note - Is anyone else's CPU going mad on that page? Chrome PC just goes flat out sitting on that page. UPDATE: it's my adblocker. It blocks a part of the page and the javascript tries to constantly load it if it fails, resulting in about 1000 errors/second in the console :)

This might explain a long running mystery I've had when I have loooots of tabs open. But then, how to find the tab that's stuck in that process? (In FF in my case.)

I had to close the tab while looking at the CPU % to work out that it was that tab.
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