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I really want to like these tools. Yet every time I consider Zapier or IFTTT, their integrations are a mile wide and an inch deep. I’ll see that they integrate
by Hnrobert42 3y ago
I really want to like these tools. Yet every time I consider Zapier or IFTTT, their integrations are a mile wide and an inch deep. I’ll see that they integrate with XYZ corp, but then it’s only with a handful of endpoints.
Like say I wanted to gather attendees from my Google Meet, Zoom, Webex, etc and send them to salesforce. I’d look at Zapier and see they work with Google. Then I’d look for Google Meet and see there’s nothing there.
I get that these connectors can only integrate with existing endpoints. I’m not criticizing. I’m just confused. How do people actually use these services?
- klysm 3y agoI find that these services are typically used to implement shitty half broken database replication. It’s obvious to anybody that’s worked on that sort of problem that it’s a fools errand and is going to result in terrible, brittle, untrustable data. However, their marketing and product success depends on you not knowing that.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoSimple integrations that would otherwise require dev time to build and maintain. As long as the workflows last just long enough for the value they’re providing, it’s a superior solution to a bespoke build.
- quasiuna 3y agoWe’ve used N8N for about 2 years, at scale, in production, self-hosted on a VM with docker compose. It’s phenomenal. We run every piece of client-specific custom integration work through it. Plumbing a few systems together is a piece of cake - either triggered by webhook or scheduled cron-like. There are tonnes of out the box nodes for common services, but for everything else the JavaScript code block and HTTP request nodes fill in any missing gaps. We’ve tried Zapier, Integromat and loads of others - N8N has nailed the UX for us.
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