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Zapier (YC S12) Raises $1.2M Seed Round
- ashrust 14y agoNice job guys, this is going to be a big industry.
- caseorganic 14y agoWell deserved, and way overdue!
- bryanh 14y agoThis article ended up pretty light on details, but a lot more information about us here: https://zapier.com/blog/2012/10/31/zapier-100-connected-services-year-review/ https://zapier.com/blog/2012/10/31/zapier-100-connected-serv... via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4723588 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4723588
- asparagui 14y agoCongrats! I really like the startup weekend pic in the garage. >:3
- mikeknoop 14y agoYup I highly encourage anyone interested in the back-story to give the above blog post a read. It is an overview of our last year (from inception till now). EDIT: HN link here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4723588 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4723588
- timjahn 14y agoGreat post outlining the history/journey of you guys. Must read for sure!
- cdelsolar 14y agoCongrats! You guys have a great service.
- 255martyn 14y agoHey congratulations!!! Zapier.com is a great idea wonderfully executed.
- wamatt 14y agoFantastic story, and I was initially excited for, and promoting Zapier. But then a simple request for single folder Dropbox access, seemed to fall on deaf ears. I don't have a personal agenda other than good citizenship and concern for best practices that affect the community. If you're dumping a file to my Dropbox, why do you need full read access to all folders? If you adding a note to Evernote, why do you need full r/w access to my entire note store? etc etc The simple answer is often it's not needed. For example, Wappwolf gets it right in this case (http://i.imgur.com/Ug5Fi.png http://i.imgur.com/Ug5Fi.png), by allowing the freedom to choose. Sure it's simply easier and less hassle for a startup to deal with things like users privacy concerns. However, if anything, it's an opportunity for you guys to be leading and setting the example in restricted, 'only what you require', SaaS security model. This idea of giving exponentially more startups, complete access to your increasingly critical online services, does not seem wise at all. Apologies for a bit of a rant, just rather passionate about this issue, and hope you guys will take it seriously :)
- bryanh 14y agoMore nuanced scope settings are definitely something we'd like to do. Put simply, we just haven't had a chance to get to it quite yet, but we're definitely hearing more requests for it and we want to honor those requests. We're working on it!
- wamatt 14y agoGood stuff :) Actually wasn't concerned with timelines, but rather a principle statement of agreement or disagreement. Of course there are pragmatic issues, but also its very easy for startups in public diplomatic relations to say "yup sure" and have little interest in following through. (not saying that is necessarily the case here of course) Hence why I was raising the question at the principle level, rather than a specific feature level to be slotted in with all the other todo's. Like I said before.. I have personally nothing to gain from this implementation. But if it takes more users to request it then so be it for you to notice then so be it. I will continue to raise awareness of the greater issue here. (Beyond Zapier as well)
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- littlegiantcap 14y agoWay to hustle! Keep on building.
- edwardog 14y agoWoo woo! I love to see Shopify Apps like these grow up :D
- timjahn 14y agoSo happy for these guys! Wade and his team are a great bunch who have a passion for helping business owners streamline their processes. Excited to see them continue to grow.
- mikeknoop 14y agoHere is another article from a Silicon Prairie News which also has more details: http://www.siliconprairienews.com/2012/10/zapier-raises-1-2m-seed-round-hires-first-employee http://www.siliconprairienews.com/2012/10/zapier-raises-1-2m...
- knowtheory 14y agoCongrats guys!
- ddt 14y agoI use Zapier to send me text message digests of certain kinds of tweets. For something so easy to use, it's incredibly powerful.
- carrja99 14y agoGood job guys!
- philipcamilleri 14y agoGood job guys!
- sophiabatka464 14y agoThe Man with the Iron Fists 2012 is a very nice movie.In feudal China, a blacksmith who makes weapons for a small village is put in the position where he must defend himself and his fellow villagers. http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fists-2012-hd-movie-free-download http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fis... http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fists-2012-hd-movie-free-download http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fis... http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fists-2012-hd-movie-free-download http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fis... http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fists-2012-hd-movie-free-download http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fis... http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fists-2012-hd-movie-free-download http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fis... http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fists-2012-hd-movie-free-download http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fis... http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fists-2012-hd-movie-free-download http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fis...
- juddlyon 14y agoWell done. I'd love to give this a whirl on a client project, great idea. Please post some technical details on how on earth you connected all this stuff (in general terms without divulging any secret sauce).
- zacharycohn 14y agoGlad to see a Startup Weekend company ROCKING it. :)
- andrewljohnson 14y agoZapier is great, I use them to integrate DropBox with HipChat, and it was no trouble at all to set up. And that's what I'm looking for in a product, solves a problem, no trouble to set up. One of the founders was also happy to chat with me about the DropBox integration, which is nice - sign of good customer service to come. I also integrate GitHub with HipChat, but don't need Zapier for that. Anyone else do any integrations with HipChat they find useful?
- bryanh 14y agoHey Andrew, we have a few things we do with HipChat (or Highrise or whatever), I'll list my favorites from usefulness to "just for fun": * churns in Stripe trigger a message in the chat room, we always try to follow up immediately and figure out why * specific support requests or emails also trigger in the chat room * Google alert RSS feeds for Zapier also dump mentions of Zapier across the web into the chat room * we have another chat account called the ZapBot. he's a bit foul mouthed, but anyone can control him through a Gtalk->HipChat zap we set up.
- binxbolling 14y agoNice work! Any chance Zoho Creator is coming soon?
- ianstormtaylor 14y agoNicely done guys! Once you made that spinner, the rest was inevitable :p
- mikeknoop 14y agoSomeone noticed the spinner! Every time someone manually clicks "spin", we log it (we do not log the automated first spin): http://i.imgur.com/LCFu6.png http://i.imgur.com/LCFu6.png
- thejosh 14y agoIt's a great gimmick that shows endless possibilities for your service. Great idea and execution, and actually a startup I like.