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Zapier is a god send for the non developer portions of a company. I work in marketing. Marketing projects are inherently speculative, you don't know what they will achieve until they're done. Add to this that dev teams at every company have full sprints planned for months. Getting a marketing project done through the dev team is months of exertion and sweat. Or... get Zapier approved by security, get platforms plugge…
Our customers of [Streak](www.streak.com) use zapier heavily to connect to all their other tools so we have a ton of experience with it. We're currently building an alternative for our users natively into our app (we think we can make a more optimized experience for our app). I think we've stumbled onto a pretty key product insight - we're basing our automation tool on a spreadsheet. Zapier is clearly optimized for n…
Clay is basically Zapier applied to a spreadsheet UI https://www.clay.run/ You can set up each column to hit an integration. As a cell is populate either by hand or from the result of an integration, it triggers other cells to evaluate.
Our customers of [Streak](www.streak.com) use zapier heavily to connect to all their other tools so we have a ton of experience with it. We're currently building an alternative for our users natively into our app (we think we can make a more optimized experience for our app). I think we've stumbled onto a pretty key product insight - we're basing our automation tool on a spreadsheet. Zapier is clearly optimized for n…
I had designed a similar system for consultant customisation of complicated business rules, although I failed to deliver it. I had intended to: * Have one workbook per business function. One inputs sheet (variables in), one sheet for the formulas, one outputs sheet (variables out). * Use a sort of test driven, self documenting approach. When developing with clients, it is easiest to ask them about specific examples,…
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Right - it sounds like you're processing data at a very different scale from the typical Zapier user.
Yeah, potentially, though I think you’d be surprised at the size of teams still using it.
What do you use Zapier for? I feel like I live in a cave. Over the past 10+ years, I’ve yet to understand what use cases people use for things like IFTTT/Zapier/etc. I clearly must for alone I’m not understanding. Can someone please help me understand their specific use case. I’m genuinely curious.
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Great convo, thought I'd share some valuable zaps I've used over the last few years to save $$$ on headcount, dev time, and burn/debt on unproven ideas/experiments. - Slack - pipe all kinds of events into special #channels to cross teams can check one spot for external happenings: new users, new sales, support chats, form/data submissions - Forms > CRM/Sheets - shouldn't be understated. Using lead page or no-code CRM…
Piping user data into Sheets is literally my nightmare. Especially if there's any sort of editing or data transform in sheets, there's 0 traceability of the change.
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Piping user data into Sheets is literally my nightmare. Especially if there's any sort of editing or data transform in sheets, there's 0 traceability of the change.
Is there any way to lock a Sheet from edits except for API-based changes?
>The process of companies building products that strip away use-cases from horizontal platforms is called “unbundling”. Is there a more plain English explanation what this means? I didn't understand their explanation, and then they showed Zapier that seems to be a service that relies on automating some tasks based on one or more other service .... that seems to be very "bundled" in my mind now that you've got two or…
The graphic in this short article [0] that shows the numerous companies "unbundled" from Craigslist is worth the click and will help you instantly understand the concept. [0]: https://thegongshow.tumblr.com/post/345941486/the-spawn-of-c...
So I'm pretty sure this is the technology revolution that we're all sleeping on. Like, self-driving cars? VR? Meh. Accessible programming? A safe environment for folks close to a business problem that lets them solve that business problem on their own?! That's cool. Like for me, in my experience as a software engineer, there's basically four types of employees: The tech-naive domain expert, the tech-friendly domain e…