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Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by addicted44 »

mikeleeorg wrote: post #11
wiremine wrote: post #6

Pipes where awesome! The product seemed to have influenced a few products (off the top of my head): 1. IBM's Node Red [1] 2. AWS IoT Things Graph [2] I'm sure there are others? [1] https://nodered.org/ [2] https://aws.amazon.com/iot-things-graph/?nc=sn&loc=3&dn=6

Though not exactly the same thing, I like to think of these as spiritual successors: https://ifttt.com/ https://zapier.com/

I agree. When I first heard of it, IFTTT was basically Pipes done right for me.

In many ways Pipes was far too ahead of its time. The Web simply did not have as much computation and reason for integrating data between different web apps at the time.

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by mikeryan »

diggan wrote: post #21
Mizza wrote: post #9

Pipes was _awesome_. I built many personal services with it - (and even a few low traffic production services!) Really tragic they killed it, that's when I knew the Mayer era of Yahoo would be nothing more than a hatchet job. I wish they made it F/OSS as part of the shutdown. Nothing has filled the void.

As someone who just briefly used Pipes for a couple of things and don't remember the service fully: What unique features of Pipes do you remember that nothing else been able to replicate?

We built apps for Yahoos connected TV platform (it was based on the Konfabulator widget engine) back in the day. Getting API support from clients (broadcast networks) for niche platforms was next to impossible and trying to aggregate all the data via multiple calls on constrained devices wasn’t feasible either.

We used pipes to aggregate multiple services into a single API a few times at Yahoo’s recommendation and it worked pretty well. Also helped get around some CORS issues IIRC.

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by justwalt »

psadri wrote: post #16

Thanks for posting and the nice comments. Glad to have built something that people found useful...

Congratulations on having created something that many people seem to have a fond opinion of. That must feel good.

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by x__x »

stevenjohns wrote: post #24

I used Yahoo! Pipes in a somewhat greyhat way. I started pulling in data from Reddit's RSS feeds for certain subreddits and using that to create and post content for fairly spammy Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook pages. I'd parse the titles (for example, change things like "cake day" to "birthday") and adding hashtags at the end. You could ensure only top content made it by setting a minimum karma limit. It was a way of…

I used to use pipes for a network of real estate listing websites. I would combine Craigslist, Ooodle, Trulia and some others and then place Adsense ads around the feeds.

My sites were getting a lot og organic search traffic, but were ultimately dropped for not having unique content

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by peteforde »

madrox wrote: post #26
peteforde wrote: post #25

I was at the O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference session that functioned as (what I remember to have been) the Pipes launch party. Everyone involved with the project seemed young and full of optimism, and while they didn't know exactly how Pipes would make money, I remember being as impressed with the UI as I was the forward-thinking ideas that motivated the project. Keep in mind that in 2006, IE 6 was still omnipresen…

I remember that ETech. Back when Yahoo was doing a bunch of things that were cool and not profit-driven, like FireEagle. In a lot of ways that tech was all ahead of its time. It's a shame the monetization schemes weren't similarly evolved. If it were, Yahoo may still be more relevant today.

I met one of the FireEagle devs there, at the same ETech event, and he was a really great person. We proceeded to bump into each other a few more times over the years, specifically at the Ajax Experience conferences. He really tried to convince me that Yahoo wasn't all that bad, although he eventually did have to move on.

As evidenced by the previous paragraph, I've forgotten his name which makes it exceptionally difficult to reconnect.

Consider this a HN "missed connections" attempt. ;)

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by jotm »

stevenjohns wrote: post #24

I used Yahoo! Pipes in a somewhat greyhat way. I started pulling in data from Reddit's RSS feeds for certain subreddits and using that to create and post content for fairly spammy Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook pages. I'd parse the titles (for example, change things like "cake day" to "birthday") and adding hashtags at the end. You could ensure only top content made it by setting a minimum karma limit. It was a way of…

Oh you bet Pipes was a godsend for anyone gaming Google SERPs at the time!

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by thrownaway954 »

Mizza wrote: post #9

Pipes was _awesome_. I built many personal services with it - (and even a few low traffic production services!) Really tragic they killed it, that's when I knew the Mayer era of Yahoo would be nothing more than a hatchet job. I wish they made it F/OSS as part of the shutdown. Nothing has filled the void.

https://ifttt.com/

Re: Yahoo Pipes

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Post by thrownaway954 »

thrownaway954 wrote: post #38
Mizza wrote: post #9

Pipes was _awesome_. I built many personal services with it - (and even a few low traffic production services!) Really tragic they killed it, that's when I knew the Mayer era of Yahoo would be nothing more than a hatchet job. I wish they made it F/OSS as part of the shutdown. Nothing has filled the void.

https://ifttt.com/

This one looks promising from an open source alternative that you can host locally:

https://github.com/huginn/huginn

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