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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

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Post by timjahn »

leak wrote: post #20
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!

If they continue expanding the channels, triggers, and actions available, I'd probably come up with more business uses and would pay for it.

(Off the top of my head, some MailChimp and Eventbrite integration would be nice.)

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

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Post by timjahn »

ihaveyourbuns wrote: post #12

Is this Yahoo Pipes 2.0?

I'm a pretty technical guy, developer, etc. After reading your comment, I popped on over to Yahoo Pipes, having never really used it.

I didn't 100% understand what you could do with Pipes based on the first page. I still don't. Is it just for RSS and blogs?

I took one look at the Ifttt page and instantly understood what it could do for me.

Big difference in my eyes.

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

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Post by linden »

vigilanteweb wrote: post #19

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.

Multiple accounts per channel is something we'd like to add. Not possible at the moment. Glad you dig it!

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

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Post by timjahn »

spindritf wrote: post #18

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

I'd venture to guess fine points like this will be tweaked over time. I don't want them storing my Wordpress admin credentials either, so I haven't activated that channel yet.

(I actually emailed them about this and am awaiting a response).

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

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Post by timjahn »

Jun8 wrote: post #17

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"?

Location integration would be amazing. Assuming I left my living room speaker on 24/7 (which is totally fine), I'd love to be able to get Rdio spinning up some tunes as soon as I get home from wherever.

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

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Post by StavrosK »

Jun8 wrote: post #17

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"?

Tasker does this: http://tasker.dinglisch.net/

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

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Post by parfe »

Great looking service with some deal breakers:

Needs Access to my entire dropbox account

Requests access to "Gmail" (I have no idea how much access that provides). Why can't it just set the To: Address on an outgoing email? Ifttt has been sending me emails no problem so far. The Gmail permission crosses a line. It doesn't help that Google doesn't explain what access I would grant.

Seems they took the easier path and just defaulted to full permissions. I'm sure enough people don't mind that it was the right decision. Just a personal deal breaker.

Also the Recipe filter needs a quick way to specify "Only my active channels." Or/also, my dashboard reads "8 Channels with 264 possible task combinations. " Why isn't this a link to existing recipes filtered by my active channels?

Ifttt provides no method for deleting your ifttt account or purging your external information.

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

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Post by timjahn »

hopeless wrote: post #29

Ifttt is an extremely well-designed and useful service. I look forward to the day they get a business model so I can rely on it

That's a really good point. A service like this has enough potential business use cases where I'm sure a lot of users would be willing to directly give them cash to ensure this is a long term company, not a flash in the pan startup.

Makes you think about the true intentions behind a startup/company.

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