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I might be your target market. I use google keep for online plain text type things. I can definitely see the power of being able to run scripts over these kind

by Fuzzwah 11y ago

I might be your target market. I use google keep for online plain text type things. I can definitely see the power of being able to run scripts over these kinds of notes. For years I had been using a system which was built around yahoo pipes and cron tasks. Pipes would suck in rss sources from a huge number of places, do some munging and logic and output another rss feed which I would process with a cron task to do various things based on what was in the feed. Then yahoo killed pipes. Can a script create a static output file?

viraptor 11y ago
Have you tried lambda + s3 instead of yahoo pipes + cron? (both time and http activation is possible) I've done something on lambda recently I'd use pipes for (if it still existed) and been quite happy with the result.
- iheartmemcache 11y ago
  I sort of wanted to find a use-case for Pipes and IFTTT, but I couldn't. I think I used it a few times to hunt for craigslist deals on vintage guitar amplifiers or something, but what specifically functionality do you (and OP) miss about it?
  - Fuzzwah 11y ago
    The most complex thing I used pipes for was to pull in content from basically every site around the web that I have an account on and aggregate them on a blog of sorts. The whole idea was that sites I use for things come and go. I could jump from service to service, update my pipes setup. If a site died I'd just find a replacement and move on. I always had all my content harvested and stored in my own db. Examples; * any youtube video I added to my favorites would be auto embedded on my blog * posts on blogger, wordpress, etc all pull into the one place * images fav'd on deviantart * pages book marked using diigo * photos saved to whatever photo site I was currently using Here's a screenshot from a long time ago when I originally set it up (2009): https://fuzzyslogicblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/a186d-pipeseditingfuzzy27slogic.jpg https://fuzzyslogicblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/a186d-pi...
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saola-app 11y ago
I'm glad to know there are folks of the same mind. It exposes saola.create and saola.append functions to create and append to a file.

by Fuzzwah 11y ago

viraptor 11y ago

Have you tried lambda + s3 instead of yahoo pipes + cron? (both time and http activation is possible) I've done something on lambda recently I'd use pipes for (if it still existed) and been quite happy with the result.

iheartmemcache 11y ago
I sort of wanted to find a use-case for Pipes and IFTTT, but I couldn't. I think I used it a few times to hunt for craigslist deals on vintage guitar amplifiers or something, but what specifically functionality do you (and OP) miss about it?
- Fuzzwah 11y ago
  The most complex thing I used pipes for was to pull in content from basically every site around the web that I have an account on and aggregate them on a blog of sorts. The whole idea was that sites I use for things come and go. I could jump from service to service, update my pipes setup. If a site died I'd just find a replacement and move on. I always had all my content harvested and stored in my own db. Examples; * any youtube video I added to my favorites would be auto embedded on my blog * posts on blogger, wordpress, etc all pull into the one place * images fav'd on deviantart * pages book marked using diigo * photos saved to whatever photo site I was currently using Here's a screenshot from a long time ago when I originally set it up (2009): https://fuzzyslogicblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/a186d-pipeseditingfuzzy27slogic.jpg https://fuzzyslogicblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/a186d-pi...

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saola-app 11y ago

I'm glad to know there are folks of the same mind. It exposes saola.create and saola.append functions to create and append to a file.