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On this topic, HN what are your coolest or most useful IFTTT recipes?

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slykat 14y ago
If you are in the Bay Area, finding housing can be a pain and the key is to e-mail a listing immediately after its posted so you can skip the open house and view it privately. This recipe allows you to get e-mailed as soon as Craiglist has a new listing: https://ifttt.com/recipes/79 https://ifttt.com/recipes/79
justhw 14y ago
There are some neat recipes on IFTTT: https://ifttt.com/recipes?sort=popular https://ifttt.com/recipes?sort=popular
- tarr11 14y ago
  Interesting. None of these things compel me to use IFTTT.
  - justhw 14y ago
    They're not for everyone. For some, it saves time and effort immensely. Others use it for discovery. Me and you just watch from the sidelines.
  - mehdim 14y ago
    True, IFTTT recipes are often too limited, because targeting non developers, they limit a lot inputs and ouputs of APIs. But all these APIs can do lot more. The reason why there we made webshell.io , "IFTTT for developers", enabling developers to script APIs in Javascript, with the whole expressivity of a a scripting language for more advanced APIs scripts(recipes) :)
  - icebraining 14y ago
    The only recipe I have on IFTTT is one that watches their own Twitter stream and shoots me an email whenever they talk about new channels ;) For now, it's way too limited.
    - thyb 14y ago
      It will be always limited, because APIs are for developers, applications for humans. Only developers can levergage APIs to make advanced services.
danteembermage 14y ago
I'm using a dumb phone with perpetual battery life. I use IFTTT to send me texts 15 min ahead of my outlook calendar appointments. I also text notes to their number which push to my Evernote. I also had all a close friends tweets sent to my email since I don't really use twitter, but I turned that off eventually.
bdickason 14y ago
I was a HUGE user of the 'Favorite tweet' -> 'Send Link to Readability' which allowed me to queue up a reading list before hopping on the subway in the morning. Unfortunately, the Twitter Favorite hook has been discontinued and now I read more books on my kindle :(
- bumpmann 14y ago
  True, but Twitter doesn't like 3d party services anymore.
epaga 14y ago
This one is one I use the most: https://ifttt.com/recipes/71205 https://ifttt.com/recipes/71205 Anything I Buffer-Tweet automatically gets bookmarked in Diigo. Really helpful for having a list of bookmarks that I thought was interesting.

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If you are in the Bay Area, finding housing can be a pain and the key is to e-mail a listing immediately after its posted so you can skip the open house and view it privately. This recipe allows you to get e-mailed as soon as Craiglist has a new listing: https://ifttt.com/recipes/79 https://ifttt.com/recipes/79

justhw 14y ago

There are some neat recipes on IFTTT: https://ifttt.com/recipes?sort=popular https://ifttt.com/recipes?sort=popular

tarr11 14y ago
Interesting. None of these things compel me to use IFTTT.
- justhw 14y ago
  They're not for everyone. For some, it saves time and effort immensely. Others use it for discovery. Me and you just watch from the sidelines.
- mehdim 14y ago
  True, IFTTT recipes are often too limited, because targeting non developers, they limit a lot inputs and ouputs of APIs. But all these APIs can do lot more. The reason why there we made webshell.io , "IFTTT for developers", enabling developers to script APIs in Javascript, with the whole expressivity of a a scripting language for more advanced APIs scripts(recipes) :)
- icebraining 14y ago
  The only recipe I have on IFTTT is one that watches their own Twitter stream and shoots me an email whenever they talk about new channels ;) For now, it's way too limited.
  - thyb 14y ago
    It will be always limited, because APIs are for developers, applications for humans. Only developers can levergage APIs to make advanced services.

danteembermage 14y ago

I'm using a dumb phone with perpetual battery life. I use IFTTT to send me texts 15 min ahead of my outlook calendar appointments. I also text notes to their number which push to my Evernote. I also had all a close friends tweets sent to my email since I don't really use twitter, but I turned that off eventually.

bdickason 14y ago

I was a HUGE user of the 'Favorite tweet' -> 'Send Link to Readability' which allowed me to queue up a reading list before hopping on the subway in the morning. Unfortunately, the Twitter Favorite hook has been discontinued and now I read more books on my kindle :(

bumpmann 14y ago
True, but Twitter doesn't like 3d party services anymore.

epaga 14y ago

This one is one I use the most: https://ifttt.com/recipes/71205 https://ifttt.com/recipes/71205 Anything I Buffer-Tweet automatically gets bookmarked in Diigo. Really helpful for having a list of bookmarks that I thought was interesting.