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Re: If this then that

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Post by vrikhter »

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…

IF t-shirt is less than Instead of signing up for tons of email lists and notification systems you are creating your own. You only get contacted when you WANT to be contacted.

Love it.

Re: If this then that

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Post by dhawalhs »

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 just created an email alert for rain. Being a bike commuter this might turn out be really useful.

Re: If this then that

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Post by corin_ »

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.

While I did start by thinking "am I zoomed in on this site for some reason" the large size has actually grown on me. Overall I really like pretty much every aspect of the design.

On a seperate note: for phone calling, it said US only but it seems to work for international numbers as well. (Was wanting to see if I could set up a nice wake-up call...)

Re: If this then that

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Post by alexmr »

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…

What I like about this is the potential to become a platform for little useful scripts (recipes). I know there are a hundred ways I could send twitter favorited links to instapaper, but this made it dirt simple and easy enough that my parents could do it. Any single recipe may not be that amazing, but the combination of a bunch of little useful ones could be.

Re: If this then that

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Post by rjh29 »

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.

I don't know, most websites have a font size that is far too small for comfortable reading. I found your choice of size refreshing!

Re: If this then that

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Post by gxs »

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.
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