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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 jcitme »

rokhayakebe wrote: post #42
parfe wrote: post #28

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…

We need a privacy graph service, one trusted API we sign up to and give it all access. Then developers can simply access different level of our services through this one api.

Nice idea, with one big flaw: nobody will trust it. Either at first, or when it starts getting too big...

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

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Post by smackfu »

dgurney wrote: post #45
parfe wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Wow, can 3rd-party services actually delete all your data if they wanted to? It's not just read-only access?

Dropbox has two types of authorization, entire dropbox level and app-folder level. IFTTT allows you to type in a full dropbox path instead of being restricted to /ifttt, so it requests the full access. It would be nice if they offered you the choice, and then if you picked the app-folder, the paths only allowed /ifttt.

It also looks like DropBox doesn't have access levels beyond that. If you have access, you can use any of the API, upload / download / delete / etc.

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

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Post by StavrosK »

Karunamon wrote: post #54
StavrosK wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

+1 for Tasker. And to Locale above, Tasker actually has support for Locale. The things you can do with those two apps combined is absurdly awesome.

Have you noticed any significant battery drain? I'm not using either because of my already short battery life.

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

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Post by brandnewlow »

timjahn wrote: post #21
leak wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

Or advertising... (Hi, Tim!)

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

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Post by Karunamon »

StavrosK wrote: post #63
Karunamon wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 for Tasker. And to Locale above, Tasker actually has support for Locale. The things you can do with those two apps combined is absurdly awesome.

Have you noticed any significant battery drain? I'm not using either because of my already short battery life.

Locale sucks battery quite a bit simply because it's a location tracking app, with all of the consumption that entails. It works for me though because my phone, if not attached to me, is charging on my desk at home or at work.

Tasker much less so.

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

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Post by ThaddeusQuay2 »

seltzered_ wrote: post #38
timjahn wrote: post #30

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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.

It's your lucky day! Make a detailed list of what you would want from such a service, divided into levels, and indicate how much you would pay for each level. Place the list here, or email it to me, and I'll try to build your ultimate ifttt clone. I like pinboard and ifttt, but I see ifttt as struggling to transition to a paying model because they are spending way too much time, money and energy supporting a large user base for free.

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

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Post by mminer »

perfunctory wrote: post #16

What would be their business model?

As a (hypothetical) company with an API of my own, I'd be willing to pay to become a supported channel. This may be unwise initially -- once ifttt's third-party API is ready they'll want as many services as possible on board to strengthen the value proposition -- but perhaps there are scenarios where it makes sense. That is, charge the companies benefitting from increased traffic and awareness rather than the individuals using the system.

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

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Post by seltzered_ »

nuttendorfer wrote: post #50
herbivore wrote: post #48

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What do you mean by pinboard model?

You pay once to sign up, this fee increases with the ammount of users.

yep. pinboard has both a "pay us one-time" model for bookmarking and an "annual-fee" model for special features like pdf archives.

That seems reasonable and fair, then again I'm sure he can pull it off well because as far as i know pinboard's a one-man bootstrapped company.

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