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The only standard that’s going to survive, I think, is email. Anything accepts email - almost anything can send email. So for example in Aether Pro we’re build
by rolleiflex 7y ago
The only standard that’s going to survive, I think, is email.
Anything accepts email - almost anything can send email. So for example in Aether Pro we’re building email pipelines so you can tie your CI to a ‘subreddit’ and all messages coming from that CI would appear under, without polluting everyone’s inboxes. It can also trigger further actions based on parsing those emails as well. It’s messy, but it’s the only thing that kind of works with anything.
We’d love to be able to rely on APIs of other tools, but those are just never there, or too fragile, or the API owners think the data they are ‘leaking’ is too valuable to let go, so email it is.
- abhiyerra 7y agoFunny you mention this. My friend runs a jewelry business and one of the things he needed to do was move something from Etsy to asana. There was no API so we used Zapier’s email parser to parse the order emails to send into Asana. Works pretty well. https://parser.zapier.com/ https://parser.zapier.com/
- rolleiflex 7y agoThat's interesting! Any yes, that's what we're going for, but in a way that also allows you to see the messages too, not just use as triggers. So you could bind your `support@` email to it and answer with humans as well. It's all in the context of providing an internal gathering space that isn't just a notification-heavy Slack channel. Reddit-style forums work surprisingly well for both humans and robots, so it's pretty nice.