Why Pipedream?
dylanjpierce.com
Why Pipedream?
1–7 of 7 posts
Re: Why Pipedream?
#2I was expecting an article about the etymology.
Re: Why Pipedream?
#3Yahoo Pipes is back!
Re: Why Pipedream?
#4I was expecting an article about the etymology.
I was expecting the old video game.
Re: Why Pipedream?
#5I, too, am excited about Pipedream.
I think it needs more no-code support for some of the fundamental abstractions needed for scripting, especially ETL:
- Branching
- Looping
For example: Recently, I built an integration from ForwardEmail to Airtable using Pipedream and realized I needed a secondary nightly automation to clean up the records so the Airtable base didn’t exceed my limits. Now, Pipedream happily executes a step that returns an array of Airtable records. Problem is, as far as I can tell, Pipedream has no native concept of “loop through every entry in the array”, so I had to hop into Javascript code to create a for loop.
Re: Why Pipedream?
#6Too expensive.
Re: Why Pipedream?
#7I, too, am excited about Pipedream. I think it needs more no-code support for some of the fundamental abstractions needed for scripting, especially ETL: - Branching - Looping For example: Recently, I built an integration from ForwardEmail to Airtable using Pipedream and realized I needed a secondary nightly automation to clean up the records so the Airtable base didn’t exceed my limits. Now, Pipedream happily execute…
Yup it's something that's been on the backlog for a bit and we're trying to solve for.
Here's the issue if you'd like to follow: https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream/issues/193
It is possible to make a custom source for ForwardEmail, and then emit 1 action per row, but that requires writing code outside of the GUI.
Definitely hear you on this pain and we're working on it.