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(Zapier cofounder) Super excited for this. Tool use for LLMs goes way beyond just search. Zapier is a launch partner here -- you can access any of the 5k+ apps

(Zapier cofounder) Super excited for this. Tool use for LLMs goes way beyond just search. Zapier is a launch partner here -- you can access any of the 5k+ apps / 20k+ actions on Zapier directly from within ChatGPT. We are eager to see how folks leverage this composability. Some new example capabilities are retrieving data from any app, draft and send messages/emails, and complex multi step reasoning like look up data or create if doesn't exist. Some demos here: https://twitter.com/mikeknoop/status/1638949805862047744 https://twitter.com/mikeknoop/status/1638949805862047744 (Also our plugin uses the same free public API we announced yesterday, so devs can add this same capability into your own products: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35263542 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35263542)

sharemywin 4y ago
The problem with Zapier is zaps are to expensive at scale.
- roflyear 4y ago
  Well, that and you trust Zapier with a lot of stuff.
- tbrock 4y ago
  And Zapier are unwilling to work with you to reduce that cost even at a scale of 1 billion requests per month.
  - WadeF 4y ago
    Email your use case: wade at zapier dot com. Happy to take a look.
    - tbrock 4y ago
      Too late, we spoke with someone on the team three years ago who told us he couldn’t help and we’ve moved on.
  - deleted 4y ago
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sharemywin 4y ago
Also, isn't OpenAPI going to eat your business model? Don't get me wrong alot of platforms seem like they go bye, bye. Hey, ChatGPT I need to sell my baseball card. Ok I see there's 30 people that have listed an interested in buying card like yours, would you like me to contact them? 20 on facebook marketplace, 9 on craiglist and some guy mentioned something about looking for one on his nest cam. by the way remember what happened the last time you sold something on craigslist.
dwohnitmok 4y ago
To echo sharemywin, bluntly I think OpenAI just demolished your business model. I think I'm probably going to be advising people to move off Zapier pretty soon because it won't be worth the overhead.
93po 4y ago
I saw a startup recently that's working to automate interactions with applications that are either not web apps (in which case you'd run a local instance of it) or a web app that doesn't provide an API to do certain (or any) actions. Is this something Zapier is looking at, too? It would really expand what's possible with the OpenAI integration and save people a tremendous amount of time to not be forced to jump through hoops interacting with often crappy software.
- Nilef 4y ago
  Can you share the name of the startup?
  - 93po 4y ago
    I don't recall unfortunately, but IBM is also doing this: https://research.ibm.com/publications/blueshift-automated-application-transformation-to-cloud-native-architectures https://research.ibm.com/publications/blueshift-automated-ap...
    - whoami_nr 4y ago
      I believe it was adept.ai that he is talking about.

sharemywin 4y ago

The problem with Zapier is zaps are to expensive at scale.

roflyear 4y ago
Well, that and you trust Zapier with a lot of stuff.
tbrock 4y ago
And Zapier are unwilling to work with you to reduce that cost even at a scale of 1 billion requests per month.
- WadeF 4y ago
  Email your use case: wade at zapier dot com. Happy to take a look.
  - tbrock 4y ago
    Too late, we spoke with someone on the team three years ago who told us he couldn’t help and we’ve moved on.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]

sharemywin 4y ago

Also, isn't OpenAPI going to eat your business model? Don't get me wrong alot of platforms seem like they go bye, bye. Hey, ChatGPT I need to sell my baseball card. Ok I see there's 30 people that have listed an interested in buying card like yours, would you like me to contact them? 20 on facebook marketplace, 9 on craiglist and some guy mentioned something about looking for one on his nest cam. by the way remember what happened the last time you sold something on craigslist.

dwohnitmok 4y ago

To echo sharemywin, bluntly I think OpenAI just demolished your business model. I think I'm probably going to be advising people to move off Zapier pretty soon because it won't be worth the overhead.

93po 4y ago

I saw a startup recently that's working to automate interactions with applications that are either not web apps (in which case you'd run a local instance of it) or a web app that doesn't provide an API to do certain (or any) actions. Is this something Zapier is looking at, too? It would really expand what's possible with the OpenAI integration and save people a tremendous amount of time to not be forced to jump through hoops interacting with often crappy software.

Nilef 4y ago
Can you share the name of the startup?
- 93po 4y ago
  I don't recall unfortunately, but IBM is also doing this: https://research.ibm.com/publications/blueshift-automated-application-transformation-to-cloud-native-architectures https://research.ibm.com/publications/blueshift-automated-ap...
  - whoami_nr 4y ago
    I believe it was adept.ai that he is talking about.