Seems like the perfect kind of app to build on sandstorm.io, since it's something you'd probably want to own on your own servers.
I don't think Sandstorm can run daemons or cron jobs as of yet - the apps are stopped after a bit if the user logs off.
Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
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Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#32Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…
I rely on it for something that is pretty simple: notification if it's going to rain tomorrow. It doesn't rain enough where I live for me to be in the habit of checking, so having something sitting in the background that will remind me the ~5 times a year I care is really really helpful. I ride a bike to work so it helps me prep my rain gear. My morning commute time doesn't take into account finding gear and getting…
I use it for the exact same thing: I motorcycle in to work and need to make sure my rain gear is ready. But it only actually works about 25% of the time. It works so rarely that I haven't even remembered to turn it off.
Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#33One of the great things about IFTTT is the number of services that are plugged into it. (They number in the hundreds) this has about 10 which is nice but nearly enough. Also the ones that make it a killer app for me are the gApps integration which this lacks entirely.
Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#34Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…
I would love something like this to have a decent Waze applet. Yes I am too lazy to launch Waze before leaving home.
Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#35Seems like the perfect kind of app to build on sandstorm.io, since it's something you'd probably want to own on your own servers.
I don't think Sandstorm can run daemons or cron jobs as of yet - the apps are stopped after a bit if the user logs off.
I think support for cron jobs is coming soon, but the other challenge is that they're still working out the best way to allow apps to make outbound network connections. It's doable now, but requires administrator access.
Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#36Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…
A while back I had a long design discussion about using IFTTT to do essentially what pagerduty is doing. Notification relays and routing: Feed an event into it, and based on urgency and tags broadcast it to the correct feeds (irc channels, slack, email sysadmins, etc). You could theoretically create groups of people you want to contact this way.
No more screwing around with bridging protocols and every single bot implementing their own library to connect to a billion different messaging protocols.
But yeah, I'm not passionate enough about the idea to do it. And IFTTT wouldn't have been enough.
Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#37The front page does a terrible job of explaining exactly what this product does.
Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#38Why 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.
Alphabet/Google also buy things that may have a big impact on internet usage as a mechanism to deliver more ads.
Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#39Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…
I have tried it out for various things but the one I rely on most is "call and leave a message then get that message emailed to me" I ONLY use this feature for logging my work tasks and client visits throughout the day. Basically I always forget to record my time spent at various locations or when I do extra work outside of scheduled hours. I have ifttt as a contact in my phone named Bender. When I'm in my car going to/from client visits I can tell my phone "Call Bender" and I tell Bender what I'm up to, and anything I might want to note about times, mileage, etc. Hugely useful fallback for me so that at the end of the month I search my email for "voice memo" and I can process everything I haven't already captured. Especially when I have to run around putting out fires in multiple places I can easily forget exactly what I did and in what order.
Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#40Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…
I use Zapier/IFTTT to automate various aspects of my business (automatically shuffling emails between different lists, logging payed invoices into a spreadsheet, some basic expense tracking).
For personal use, I use it mainly to make sure I get an email about some high-priority sites I follow and to log my weight into a spreadsheet.