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I built one of the most popular pipes on Yahoo! pipes (the Social Media Firehose - provides alerts from various social media searches for terms you want to trac
by kingsley_20 17y ago
I built one of the most popular pipes on Yahoo! pipes (the Social Media Firehose - provides alerts from various social media searches for terms you want to track). I spent months trying to get in touch with someone, anyone on the Y! platform team to see if I could turn it into a real app. No response.
I'll build on the Yahoo platform when they agree to take the money from my warm and willing hands.
PS: YQL & Exec are pretty sweet though.
- villageidiot 17y agoMind if I ask which Pipe that was?
- kingsley_20 17y agoThe "social media firehose": http://pipes.yahoo.com/update_maker/social_media_fire_hose http://pipes.yahoo.com/update_maker/social_media_fire_hose . It's usually listed in the popular listings in the top-3 as "Update Maker", a sub-pipe now, but was my first pipe. The pipe times out pretty much most of the time these days. Sigh - another indication of Y!'s platform commitment.
- villageidiot 17y agoWhy did you ask their permission? Couldn't you just use the data from that Pipe in an app without asking them?
- kingsley_20 17y agothe performance didnt live up to the demand -timeouts and 503s were frequent when users subscribed to the feeds. I needed a plan for scaling and success and i wanted to pay.
- villageidiot 17y agoI'm surprised to hear they weren't giving Pipes enough horsepower. But maybe it's a different story when a Pipe was as popular as yours. Still, your Pipe has only had 500,000 runs in over a year. They should be able to handle that many calls in a week.