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Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
- asow92 10y agoI can't take this website seriously. But the project seems interesting.
- ThisIs_MyName 10y agoYeah, another guy posted a better link: https://blog.trigger-happy.eu/pages/informations.html https://blog.trigger-happy.eu/pages/informations.html
- AstroJetson 10y agofor HN, that's not your best page to start with. I'd go with this one https://blog.trigger-happy.eu/pages/informations.html https://blog.trigger-happy.eu/pages/informations.html
- sofaofthedamned 10y agoWhy the heck haven't Google bought this, or at least made their own clone? It's a superb service.
- sandebert 10y agoPerhaps someone high up in Google uses it and doesn't want it killed after a couple of years? ;-)
- quickben 10y agoThe whole point of the service is to automate stuff so you don't have to open their webpage ever again if done properly. This doesn't bring advertising revenue in.
- foxmask 10y agoThis is why I like that project. User cant be disturb as this self hosting service is yours. You are the master on board :) Do what you want ; do what you need ; share or dont etc. It is a toy that renders service.
- zimmund 10y agoOn top of that, this kind of interactions are usually used by power users (individuals, not business), so it wouldn't be as popular nor profitable as they need (e.g.: Google Reader was a fantastic tool but they shut it down anyway).
- conradk 10y agoAre you sure ? What are you basing this on ? I thought Zapier was mostly business, and it's been running for a while now: https://zapier.com/ https://zapier.com/
- invisible 10y agoAlphabet/Google also buy things that may have a big impact on internet usage as a mechanism to deliver more ads.
- RA_Fisher 10y agoIndeed, that's the goal: reliable! :)
- emmelaich 10y agoI think there's an overlap with Google's services. With Google, I: 1. get a notification if the roads are busy on the way to work. 2. notified when bills (that I received via email) are due. 3. and more that I can think of right now. That's just with the Google (formerly Now?) app. With Allo and other apps Google's services are going to improve without you doing ANY ifttt-like rules.
- xparadigm 10y agoLoved the description of Trello. Kanban application. :)
- danso 10y agoThere's also the hugely popular Huginn, if you're on a Ruby stack (Trigger Happy seems to run on Django) https://github.com/cantino/huginn https://github.com/cantino/huginn
- tokenizerrr 10y agoHuginn is great, but I wish it was easier to chain stuff together. Node RED has an awesome UI, but the building blocks are aimed at something else entirely.
- tectonic 10y agoWhat sort of stuff do you find hard to build?
- tokenizerrr 10y agoScrapers of sites that involve some conversion of data. The main gripe is that you can't modify a flow of agents in a single interface, so adjusting stuff involves a lot of going back and forth.
- tectonic 10y agoAgreed- we hope for Scenarios to evolve into this eventually, but I agree that it can be clicky right now for big changes.
- mmanfrin 10y agoI never thought to use Huginn as an IFTTT replacement. I may have to spool up an instance; I wanted to before, but I have never thought of a compelling need that Huginn would solve.
- robk 10y agoAnother Huginn fan here. Super useful and so much more flexible than anything hosted like ifttt.
- pryelluw 10y agoOh and its made with django. Nice. Going to give this a test drive.
- simplify 10y agoSeems like the perfect kind of app to build on sandstorm.io, since it's something you'd probably want to own on your own servers.
- icebraining 10y agoI don't think Sandstorm can run daemons or cron jobs as of yet - the apps are stopped after a bit if the user logs off.
- mnutt 10y agoI think support for cron jobs is coming soon, but the other challenge is that they're still working out the best way to allow apps to make outbound network connections. It's doable now, but requires administrator access.
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- chrisper 10y agoWhy did IFTTT become so bad with the recent changes? Why did they have to "improve"? The updated app is horrible to use compared to the old one.
- kordless 10y agoThe change in the service is a direct reflection on their best guess at how to best answer the return on investments they have taken. These changes rarely benefit the customer's pocketbook, or at least IFTTT's version of a given customer's pocketbook.
- Splendor 10y agoI'm not sure but I'm not happy with the change. I thought they did a great job of making conditional logic easy for the masses through their 'recipes'. The new applets hide what little complexity the service previously had and now its just confusing to me.
- klinquist 10y agoIf you're on iOS (Android soon), try Stringify. Multiple ANDs/ORs/cascading actions, etc *I work for Stringify
- aceperry 10y agoThat's a name that I like.
- kmf 10y agoIs there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what are you doing with it? [1]: https://ifttt.com/discover https://ifttt.com/discover
- codezero 10y agoI rely on it for something that is pretty simple: notification if it's going to rain tomorrow. It doesn't rain enough where I live for me to be in the habit of checking, so having something sitting in the background that will remind me the ~5 times a year I care is really really helpful. I ride a bike to work so it helps me prep my rain gear. My morning commute time doesn't take into account finding gear and getting it on :)
- ketralnis 10y agoI use it for the exact same thing: I motorcycle in to work and need to make sure my rain gear is ready. But it only actually works about 25% of the time. It works so rarely that I haven't even remembered to turn it off.
- codezero 10y agoBummer. It works 99% for me but some ability to choose the percent chance threshold would help.
- boogadaboogada 10y agoSame for me. I never check the weather and had too many times the situation after a morning commute by train to be totally unprepared to the destination weather. With that simple recipe never happened again.
- nkg 10y agoI would love something like this to have a decent Waze applet. Yes I am too lazy to launch Waze before leaving home.
- vxNsr 10y agoOne of the great things about IFTTT is the number of services that are plugged into it. (They number in the hundreds) this has about 10 which is nice but nearly enough. Also the ones that make it a killer app for me are the gApps integration which this lacks entirely.
- andrewchambers 10y agoThe front page does a terrible job of explaining exactly what this product does.
- gegtik 10y agoi saw ifttt advertising an overhaul lately only to find you STILL can't join two conditions (eg. if I leave work AND its past 5pm, send a text)
- splitbrain 10y agoThis. IFTTT is much too simplistic for anything useful. Sure I can let it save all Gmail attachments to Google Drive. But if I want to do that for only certain attachments I'm out of luck.
- hasperdi 10y agoIf you want to achieve this, you can use Google Apps Script. I use it to forward certain mails to Slack and to do automatic Gmail clean up.
- k2xl 10y agoI love IFTTT, but one of the biggest missing features is the ability to do If This ... OR this ... Then That... And That And That. Unfortunately, all of the recipes are one dimensional - so you can't build recipes like "When my nest thermostats senses someone is nearby AND it is 8AM-10AM in morning and it is December or January then turn on the heat on. If IFTTT implemented this feature there would be a TON of killer recipes out there. There's a company out there called Yonami (www.yonami.com) that has an app for mobile that sort of does this - but unfortunately it is a bit buggy and doesn't integrate with as many apps.
- mpfundstein 10y agoHey. You can check out www.triggi.com . We support multiple conditions and actions.
- arcyus 10y agoA little nitpick, the slider is hugely unnecessary.
- foxmask 10y agoI wont be against some help for this main page :-) I just try to do my best .
- party_carpet 10y agoThe whole layout is lifted straight from a free bootstrap template aimed at cafe websites, slider images and all. I know this because I've used it for my girlfriend's cafe's site.