What would be their business model?
Charge to use it?
::GASPPPPPPP::
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#32Is 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.
The first two times I saw Ifttt on HackerNews I went to their website and just thought it was a mantra of how to share information on the web. I thought they were just telling me that I should use Dropbox to upload files from my phone and then upload them to Facebook when I get home.
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#33Ifttt 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.
If you were up for it, you could automate this with something like X10.
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#34Great 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…
Other side of the coin:
Need my Dropbox access? Sure, here you go. Need my Gmail access, meh, why not?
I'm not horribly concerned with allowing them the access I've granted to Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Dropbox, and Evernote.
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#36This 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.
Why didn't you ask Linden when he was in the office?
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#37Great 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…
Other side of the coin: Need my Dropbox access? Sure, here you go. Need my Gmail access, meh, why not? I'm not horribly concerned with allowing them the access I've granted to Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Dropbox, and Evernote.
Yeah, I had no problem with the other junk.
But a "Whoops, we accidentally deleted all your stuff" in dropbox or gmail would be a tad devastating.
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#38Ifttt 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.
I'll pay someone 10-30 bucks if they recreate ifttt with a pinboard model. Keep it simple stupid, fairly cheap, and charge extra if you want to do things like SMS/Voice/things that require constant notification.
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#39This 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.
Why didn't you ask Linden when he was in the office?
I was on the phone and he only had a minute, so what would've have been a perfect alignment of planets turned into a near miss.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Charge to use it? ::GASPPPPPPP::
And have it easily replaced by whomever will run it cheaper. What does Instapaper cost? $1/month?
There are plenty of examples (Apple being the first one that comes to mind) of companies who charge a ton (and make a ton of money) for a product that is available elsewhere for cheaper.
Price isn't always everything in the consumers mind.