Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors
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Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors
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Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors
#2Very interesting idea I hadn't heard of yet; does anyone know how they deal with services that do not have APIs conducive to this type of application? Or are all of the recipes pre-constructed by the IFTTT team to be sure the data in/data out constitutes a valid use of the service APIs in question?
Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors
#3Can some of that money goes towards building an API for Daytum.com? :)
Anyway, glad to see that this service will grow, it's really useful.
Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors
#4Very interesting idea I hadn't heard of yet; does anyone know how they deal with services that do not have APIs conducive to this type of application? Or are all of the recipes pre-constructed by the IFTTT team to be sure the data in/data out constitutes a valid use of the service APIs in question?
There are some existing recipes, however - you as a user aren't restricted by those recipes. You're free to create any recipe with almost any API supported by IFTTT as long as there are valid trigger points.
Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors
#5Very interesting idea I hadn't heard of yet; does anyone know how they deal with services that do not have APIs conducive to this type of application? Or are all of the recipes pre-constructed by the IFTTT team to be sure the data in/data out constitutes a valid use of the service APIs in question?
There are some existing recipes, however - you as a user aren't restricted by those recipes. You're free to create any recipe with almost any API supported by IFTTT as long as there are valid trigger points.
It's also worth mentioning that your tasks apparently can get turned off. It happened to me when I had a Twitter account tied to an RSS feed where no updates were posted in a couple of days. Bam, task automatically shut down.
It seemed a bit weird and was completely unexpected, so I probably wouldn't rely too much on it initially, until you have used it for a while.
Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors
#6Congrats Linden! Integrations have massive potential, and ifttt is paving the way.
Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors
#7This is an awesome service. I reached out trying to get a channel for NewsBlur, since Google Reader is there, but they said that there's an API coming and I should just wait for that. Kind of unfortunate since this is one of those services that--while brand new--a number of my users have asked for.
I bet it's a good feeling when users of other services are banging on the door asking for integration with ifttt.
Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are some existing recipes, however - you as a user aren't restricted by those recipes. You're free to create any recipe with almost any API supported by IFTTT as long as there are valid trigger points.
It's also worth mentioning that your tasks apparently can get turned off. It happened to me when I had a Twitter account tied to an RSS feed where no updates were posted in a couple of days. Bam, task automatically shut down. It seemed a bit weird and was completely unexpected, so I probably wouldn't rely too much on it initially, until you have used it for a while.
Sorry to hear your task got turned off. You should have gotten a notice via email about it. We monitor tasks that have trouble running (in this case perhaps the feed was down?) and always make sure to ping the task owners about it when we turn them off.
Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors
#9Big time congrats to Linden and his team. Ifttt is a really good tool with lot's of potential.
Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors
#10I just signed up and starting exploring Ifttt, and WOW. This is EXTREMELY useful and practical (at least for me). My kind of site/app.
A few uses off the top of my head:
- When searching for a new apartment or house and using Craigslist as one of your sources, use Ifttt to get a text/email when a new, relevant Craigslist post appears matching your search criteria
- Automatically add a new Wordpress blog post to Buffer when published