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Zapier (YC S12): An IFTTT For Business Users
- mikeknoop 14y agoWhile the IFTTT comparison is timely, our (Zapier) middle to long term strategies diverge significantly. We're big fans of what Linden has going on. We love the idea of making APIs usable for regular people!
- troels 14y agoActually - and I'm not just trying to be snarky here - but I don't get what you offer, that ifttt don't? Perhaps except the presentation is a bit more inclusive. Is that it?
- mikeknoop 14y agoFor now, the setup is similar (triggers/actions). But why aren't all of our users just using IFTTT? Primarily the allure to a business-focused app, with services they use today, and support on top. We'll naturally diverge more over time but the "easy" starting point when trying to sync lots of different services looks the same.
- newy 14y agoAmazing service. Works like a charm for piping notifications from various other apps into HipChat. Can't wait to play around with it more.
- bryanh 14y agoClickable to the site: https://zapier.com/ https://zapier.com/
- bretthardin 14y agoI have been using Zapier for Stripe to Hipchat integration for a few months. It is pretty nice and would suggest it to others. I have had a few bumps in the road, but overall I am happy with the service.
- bitsweet 14y agoThis is a great idea...I felt there was a huge opportunity missed by IFTTT (and it wasn't connecting to physical devices)
- dugmartin 14y agoVery impressed with the signup process. I hooked up a Pivotal Tracker to AIM integration in about a minute. Nice job.
- ernestipark 14y agoZapier's experience is great. I integrated emails that come to our help@ address to message our company HipChat so that we can respond to user inquiries ASAP. The flow of making a zap is very well thought out and they've really thought hard about the UI/UX. It took me just a minute to get signed up and integrate with my service.
- samstave 14y agoThis is the perfect engine to create a great support service: Use this to monitor alerts coming from various system monitors (BB, logwatch, etc..) and have it take the escalation actions that an on-call person would typically perform.
- ultrasaurus 14y agoI plan to use Zapier for a side project, but for alerting their fastest plan has a 5 minute lag (the free plan has 5 hours of lag) (Disclaimer, I work for PagerDuty which totally does what you're talking about)
- DanielN 14y agoThis hopefully one of many future congratulations to the Zapier team. Great job guys!
- Maro 14y agoI think I understand what IFTTT is, but I don't get the "IFFFT for business" tagline. How is IFTTT itself not for business? Is it just the different set of APIs supported? I assume IFTTT itself could add those at some point?
- eric-hu 14y agoI'm impressed with the triggers and actions available right now. Hooking up a trial account for Github commits to email me is destroying my 2008 Macbook Pro in Firefox. These drag and drop actions might need some optimizing--though I'll admit my computer is nearing 'unacceptably slow'.
- WadeF 14y agoYeah we've definitely not done a great job optimizing for older hardware/browser combos.
- sgaither 14y agoI'm new to this...so with IFTTT and Zapier, are they hand building their own APIs to these services?
- NickKampe 14y agoCongrats fellas, proud of ya!
- rboyd 14y agokudos fellas. startup weekend seems like just yesterday. you guys have been moving at warp speed. enjoy the ride!
- timjahn 14y agoExcited to see more people become aware of Zapier! I can't believe it was only 5 motets ago that Wade was showing me a demo of the product and listening to my crazy suggestions.
- iworkforthem 14y agoIf Zapier is able to keep the no. of spammers under control, the service is going to be great! Keep on rolling out more services to connect the various applications. Limitless..