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Is this Yahoo Pipes 2.0?
by ihaveyourbuns 15y ago
Is this Yahoo Pipes 2.0?
- mmahemoff 15y agoIt's a good example of a sweet spot between simplicity and power. Really IFTTT is a subset of pipes, but it's still "powerful enough" and the mental model is way simpler. You could say it's 80% the power/usefulness of Pipes for most users, but 20% the complexity/learning curve. Some of this is also down to the interaction design and polish too.
- timjahn 15y agoI'm a pretty technical guy, developer, etc. After reading your comment, I popped on over to Yahoo Pipes, having never really used it. I didn't 100% understand what you could do with Pipes based on the first page. I still don't. Is it just for RSS and blogs? I took one look at the Ifttt page and instantly understood what it could do for me. Big difference in my eyes.
- jc4p 15y agoThe first two times I saw Ifttt on HackerNews I went to their website and just thought it was a mantra of how to share information on the web. I thought they were just telling me that I should use Dropbox to upload files from my phone and then upload them to Facebook when I get home.