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Re: If this then that

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Post by jc123 »

linden wrote: post #9
utexaspunk wrote: post #5

Really cool idea, and nice site design except for one glaring thing- the size of everything! What the hell!? Is this designed for the legally blind? There isn't even an option in the settings to make things normal-sized... Fix it!

Thanks for the feedback, will work on tightening the UI a bit and getting a bit more on the screen.

Feedback for simplicity: is there a need for the term "Recipes"? Can't they just be called Tasks? Some Tasks can be public/shared, but another term doesn't appear to be needed.

Re: If this then that

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Post by Estragon »

ColinWright wrote: post #2

Anyone interested in this may care to read the discussion from 3 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2604921 To be honest, I still have a hard time figuring out how, where or why I would ever use this. Maybe I'm just too old, too disconnected, or too stupid to understand what it's all about, but in short, I just don't. I'd love a single, simple, concrete example of a relevant problem this solves. Don't ge…

I feel the same way about spreadsheets. Why would I fire up a clunky app like libreoffice to quuery a csv file I can have in a python data structure in seconds. But spreadsheets weren't made for the likes of me, and neither was this.

Re: If this then that

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Post by marshray »

Finbarr wrote: post #99
linden wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, obviously infinite loops will become an issue we will have to deal with as the service grows. Especially if we start running tasks at a much faster clip and not just every 15 minutes.

It's probably not too hard to solve the problem. You could create a directed graph where the nodes are triggers and the edges are actions and make sure there are no cycles created whenever a user turns on or creates a task. Caveats to the above are that you'd need to make sure that accounts in the channels are tied to single users (or join together the graphs of multiple users where they share channel accounts). You'…

Or if there were a way to leave the site and come back again - say a similar service starts up with any compatible inverse pair of inputs and outputs.

I have to admit, I look at stuff like this and my first reaction is "hmm, what could possibly go wrong... could we somehow use this to calculate prime numbers perhaps?"

Re: If this then that

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Post by jackie_singh »

Impressed! The only issue I have is with the lack of information about their real-world presence. Who are Linden, Jesse, and Alexander? Privacy policies alone don't exactly solve the issue of instilling trust.

Re: If this then that

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Post by tcarnell »

mcritz wrote: post #46

I've been using ifttt to: * Scour Craigslist for an apartment in San Francisco * Put indeed.com job searches for "UI Design San Francisco" into Evernote * Monitor airline fares for the cheapest time to buy a one-way ticket from BOS to SFO * Text me when the temperature in zip code 94103 rises above 68 to remind myself to get out and enjoy my new city. THANKS IFTTT! I couldn't have done it without you!

...yes you could - you can actually perform exactly those tasks using http://femtoo.com. Although IFTTT is great, Femtoo has the advantage that you can track changes and be notified, or fire events when content of ANY web page, not just those listed.

Femtoo also supports Notifo notifications (direct to your mobile) and optionally a URL callback, so you can even create your own event handlers.

For example, I have a Femtoo tracker that is monitoring the latest BBC news headline, whenever it changes, Femtoo calls the LiveDirectory.org API to update the BBC profile here: http://livedirectory.org/profile/bbc - as LiveDirectory.org is a pub/sub system, subscribers to the LiveDirectory BBC profile will recieve a webhook style callback.

Re: If this then that

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Post by tcarnell »

tcarnell wrote: post #117
mcritz wrote: post #46

I've been using ifttt to: * Scour Craigslist for an apartment in San Francisco * Put indeed.com job searches for "UI Design San Francisco" into Evernote * Monitor airline fares for the cheapest time to buy a one-way ticket from BOS to SFO * Text me when the temperature in zip code 94103 rises above 68 to remind myself to get out and enjoy my new city. THANKS IFTTT! I couldn't have done it without you!

...yes you could - you can actually perform exactly those tasks using http://femtoo.com . Although IFTTT is great, Femtoo has the advantage that you can track changes and be notified, or fire events when content of ANY web page, not just those listed. Femtoo also supports Notifo notifications (direct to your mobile) and optionally a URL callback, so you can even create your own event handlers. For example, I have a F…

Additionally, Femtoo stores every value of every change in content so you can see history data about flight prices with pretty graphs etc...oooohhh!

Re: If this then that

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Post by Feinux »

gxs wrote: post #19

This is the type of service that really brings the benefit of computing to the masses. Sure, everyone consumes on the internet, but something like this lets everyone experience the joy programmers feel when they make a computer do what they want.

yes, it's easy and simple to use, quick to add rules, even to an not so geek person who will not feel confused.

Re: If this then that

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Post by gaius »

robert-boehnke wrote: post #103
skymt wrote: post #41

A tip for Kindle owners: you can make an ifttt pipeline that sends RSS entries to Instapaper. Then on Instapaper's end, set up automated Kindle delivery. Presto, new posts from your favorite bloggers are now on your Kindle, entirely automatically.

Marco explicitly asks you not to use the send to Kindle feature 'to automate delivery of bulk content, such as entire feeds.' See http://www.instapaper.com/user/kindle

That just takes me to the Instapaper homepage.
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