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I don't think you remember how the yahoo pipes worked. It was a brilliant mix of graphs for flow control, premade boxes for all common data manipulation and scr

I don't think you remember how the yahoo pipes worked. It was a brilliant mix of graphs for flow control, premade boxes for all common data manipulation and scripting for that extra feature if needed I miss them a lot and appreciate the effort here, but don't forget the visual model for data manipulation wasn't invented here but was testsd refined and proved functional by previous existing services

zeptomu 9y ago
> I don't think you remember how the yahoo pipes worked. True, I learned about it when it was already dead, but thought the goal was similar to the stuff Zapier offers and I would really like to try it. Not to automate stuff, but to checkout the visual editor.
- fiatjaf 9y ago
  Oh, Zapier is a programmer's nightmare.
  - robbiemitchell 9y ago
    Why/how so?
  - jameskegel 9y ago
    That's an odd response. Why do you feel that way?
  - bryanh 9y ago
    Funny you say that -- engineers are one of Zapier's best customer personas. Quicker and easier to implement functionality than deploying code to the cloud. Plus, non-engineers can take over maintenance so engineers can work on more interesting things. We also have code/scripting steps -- https://zapier.com/help/code/ https://zapier.com/help/code/ or https://zapier.com/help/code-python/ https://zapier.com/help/code-python/.
  - gsvclass 9y ago
    I work on Webmatr which is also for building integrations except its with Javascript code. The entire platform runs of API Specs (Swagger, Open API). I just posted it on Show HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14469734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14469734 or the direct link https://webmatr.com https://webmatr.com
- onli 9y ago
  Some screenshots from old Yahoo pipes that show a bit how that worked: https://imgur.com/a/p6uf0 https://imgur.com/a/p6uf0
- LoSboccacc 9y ago
  The pipes goal was to transform data upon a pull, not move data on triggers. The client was likely a reader, while those event system mainly push to api.
ryanoshea 9y ago
> It was a brilliant mix of graphs for flow control, premade boxes for all common data manipulation and scripting for that extra feature if needed I work for a startup that builds a dataflow app platform that fits that description nicely. We support gathering data from databases, files, APIs, etc., full graph-based flow control, strong .NET types on everything, tons of premade boxes for common operations, and support for C#/Python/R/F#/VB for custom data manipulation. Here's a quick example dataflow: http://blog.composableanalytics.com/2016/09/25/querying-data-in-spreadsheets-no-database-required/ http://blog.composableanalytics.com/2016/09/25/querying-data...

zeptomu 9y ago

> I don't think you remember how the yahoo pipes worked. True, I learned about it when it was already dead, but thought the goal was similar to the stuff Zapier offers and I would really like to try it. Not to automate stuff, but to checkout the visual editor.

fiatjaf 9y ago
Oh, Zapier is a programmer's nightmare.
- robbiemitchell 9y ago
  Why/how so?
- jameskegel 9y ago
  That's an odd response. Why do you feel that way?
- bryanh 9y ago
  Funny you say that -- engineers are one of Zapier's best customer personas. Quicker and easier to implement functionality than deploying code to the cloud. Plus, non-engineers can take over maintenance so engineers can work on more interesting things. We also have code/scripting steps -- https://zapier.com/help/code/ https://zapier.com/help/code/ or https://zapier.com/help/code-python/ https://zapier.com/help/code-python/.
- gsvclass 9y ago
  I work on Webmatr which is also for building integrations except its with Javascript code. The entire platform runs of API Specs (Swagger, Open API). I just posted it on Show HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14469734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14469734 or the direct link https://webmatr.com https://webmatr.com
onli 9y ago
Some screenshots from old Yahoo pipes that show a bit how that worked: https://imgur.com/a/p6uf0 https://imgur.com/a/p6uf0
LoSboccacc 9y ago
The pipes goal was to transform data upon a pull, not move data on triggers. The client was likely a reader, while those event system mainly push to api.

ryanoshea 9y ago

> It was a brilliant mix of graphs for flow control, premade boxes for all common data manipulation and scripting for that extra feature if needed I work for a startup that builds a dataflow app platform that fits that description nicely. We support gathering data from databases, files, APIs, etc., full graph-based flow control, strong .NET types on everything, tons of premade boxes for common operations, and support for C#/Python/R/F#/VB for custom data manipulation. Here's a quick example dataflow: http://blog.composableanalytics.com/2016/09/25/querying-data-in-spreadsheets-no-database-required/ http://blog.composableanalytics.com/2016/09/25/querying-data...