Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors • Hacker News Board

Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors

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Post by kmfrk » Wed, Jan 04, 2012, 6:55 PM UTC

linden wrote: post #8

kmfrk wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I got the e-mail, but the only take-away I got from it was sad trombone.

From what you're saying, you did it as a service to me, the user, and not to yourselves to save resources, which is what the e-mail notification sounds like - which annoyed me a bit, I have to admit.

I'll give it a second shot and send you an e-mail when or if it happens again. :)

Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors

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Post by ihaveyourbuns » Wed, Jan 04, 2012, 7:02 PM UTC

Is this Yahoo Pipes 2.0?

Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors

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Post by linden » Wed, Jan 04, 2012, 7:07 PM UTC

kmfrk wrote: post #11

linden wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I got the e-mail, but the only take-away I got from it was sad trombone . From what you're saying, you did it as a service to me, the user, and not to yourselves to save resources, which is what the e-mail notification sounds like - which annoyed me a bit, I have to admit. I'll give it a second shot and send you an e-mail when or if it happens again. :)

Ok sounds good. Perhaps we need to revisit the tone in that email, it IS intended as a service to you. If something isn't working as expected we wanted to make sure you knew about it. Its on us to make sure to get you more precise information about what is going wrong. Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors

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Post by ryanmolden » Wed, Jan 04, 2012, 7:09 PM UTC

I agree, great service. I use it to monitor posts to the support forum for the product I work on. People at work think I am constantly monitoring the forums to respond so quickly for questions I can answer, but no, I just follow links from SMS messages that ifttt sends to me.

Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors

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Post by mmahemoff » Wed, Jan 04, 2012, 7:10 PM UTC

ihaveyourbuns wrote: post #12

Is this Yahoo Pipes 2.0?

It's a good example of a sweet spot between simplicity and power. Really IFTTT is a subset of pipes, but it's still "powerful enough" and the mental model is way simpler.

You could say it's 80% the power/usefulness of Pipes for most users, but 20% the complexity/learning curve.

Some of this is also down to the interaction design and polish too.

Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors

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Post by perfunctory » Wed, Jan 04, 2012, 7:15 PM UTC

What would be their business model?

Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors

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Post by Jun8 » Wed, Jan 04, 2012, 7:15 PM UTC

Ifttt is awesome! I was wondering if there is a similar app for mobile devices that I can create rules like "if I am at home (judging by WiFi) then ..." or "if the battery falls below 20% then turn off BT"?

Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors

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Post by spindritf » Wed, Jan 04, 2012, 7:23 PM UTC

I wish they supported Dropbox by accessing only a single directory, I'm a little reluctant to give it access to all my files.

Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors

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Post by vigilanteweb » Wed, Jan 04, 2012, 7:32 PM UTC

This service is great. I'm really excited to see it grow. Congrats on the funding. It would be great to be able to login to multiple accounts of the same service. Might already be a feature, but I wasn't able to get that set up. Sent a support email. Hopefully that can be added. Really pumped about where this will go.

Re: Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors

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Post by leak » Wed, Jan 04, 2012, 7:36 PM UTC

timjahn wrote: post #10

I 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 Buffe…

I was going to make fun of the name but then decided to try it and same exact reaction. It's so damn awesome and easy to use. I think this is something I'd even consider paying for. Nice work Ifttt team!