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Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Why did IFTTT become so bad with the recent changes? Why did they have to "improve"? The updated app is horrible to use compared to the old one.

I'm not sure but I'm not happy with the change. I thought they did a great job of making conditional logic easy for the masses through their 'recipes'. The new applets hide what little complexity the service previously had and now its just confusing to me.

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Why the heck haven't Google bought this, or at least made their own clone? It's a superb service.

The whole point of the service is to automate stuff so you don't have to open their webpage ever again if done properly. This doesn't bring advertising revenue in.

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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post #5

There's also the hugely popular Huginn, if you're on a Ruby stack (Trigger Happy seems to run on Django) https://github.com/cantino/huginn

Huginn is great, but I wish it was easier to chain stuff together. Node RED has an awesome UI, but the building blocks are aimed at something else entirely.

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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post #9

Why did IFTTT become so bad with the recent changes? Why did they have to "improve"? The updated app is horrible to use compared to the old one.

I'm not sure but I'm not happy with the change. I thought they did a great job of making conditional logic easy for the masses through their 'recipes'. The new applets hide what little complexity the service previously had and now its just confusing to me.

If you're on iOS (Android soon), try Stringify. Multiple ANDs/ORs/cascading actions, etc *I work for Stringify

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Why the heck haven't Google bought this, or at least made their own clone? It's a superb service.

The whole point of the service is to automate stuff so you don't have to open their webpage ever again if done properly. This doesn't bring advertising revenue in.

This is why I like that project. User cant be disturb as this self hosting service is yours. You are the master on board :) Do what you want ; do what you need ; share or dont etc. It is a toy that renders service.

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

#18
post #5

There's also the hugely popular Huginn, if you're on a Ruby stack (Trigger Happy seems to run on Django) https://github.com/cantino/huginn

Huginn is great, but I wish it was easier to chain stuff together. Node RED has an awesome UI, but the building blocks are aimed at something else entirely.

What sort of stuff do you find hard to build?

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Why the heck haven't Google bought this, or at least made their own clone? It's a superb service.

The whole point of the service is to automate stuff so you don't have to open their webpage ever again if done properly. This doesn't bring advertising revenue in.

On top of that, this kind of interactions are usually used by power users (individuals, not business), so it wouldn't be as popular nor profitable as they need (e.g.: Google Reader was a fantastic tool but they shut it down anyway).

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The whole point of the service is to automate stuff so you don't have to open their webpage ever again if done properly. This doesn't bring advertising revenue in.

On top of that, this kind of interactions are usually used by power users (individuals, not business), so it wouldn't be as popular nor profitable as they need (e.g.: Google Reader was a fantastic tool but they shut it down anyway).

Are you sure ? What are you basing this on ?

I thought Zapier was mostly business, and it's been running for a while now: https://zapier.com/

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