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This is a killer feature for Zapier and i'm really excited. Zapier has been a huge time saver for us at BetterVoice.com. How many times do you get approached b
by sunsu 13y ago
This is a killer feature for Zapier and i'm really excited. Zapier has been a huge time saver for us at BetterVoice.com.
How many times do you get approached by customers or other vendors about "when are you going to integrate with XYZ" product? If you just integrate ONE time with Zapier, you're immediately connected with over 200 other online services. Then your answer to those customers/vendors can be: "We're integrated with Zapier, so you guys should integrate with them too and you'll get all the other benefits as well". With that answer you accomplish 2 things: 1) you shift the burden to them (2) you can use Zapier as a "testing ground" to see how popular an integration with a particular service is. If one particular Zapier connection starts taking off, then you can consider a direct integration. If only a few people use a particular service connection, then you haven't lost anything.
- userbinator 13y agoFor some reason, this comment really read like a marketing testimonial.
- hayksaakian 13y agowell they have a vested interest in discussing their product/company, and given their association with the OP, they chose to describe it in a positive way. this is what a testimonial would be if testimonials were invented in 2014
- zemanel 13y agoas a former freelancer whose work gross last year came from doing Zapier integrations for vendors (some currently public catalogue services, others private), i can subscribe to sunsu's comment as entirely accurate, given that the problems i was asked to solve and was payed for, covered that nature of what was described and more.
- ceejayoz 13y agoIf you want infuriating marketing, try Googling for an integration between two obscure web services. The Zapier "Zapbook" automatically makes a page for each possible combination of the services they hook into, giving useless bullshit like https://zapier.com/zapbook/ducksboard/aim/ https://zapier.com/zapbook/ducksboard/aim/ (which, by the way, isn't the same as https://zapier.com/zapbook/aim/ducksboard/ https://zapier.com/zapbook/aim/ducksboard/ either).
- userbinator 13y agoZapier lets you connect apps together in interesting ways, whether or not it really makes sense to. Maybe someone out there will find it useful to be able to manage their dashboards with instant messages.
- bryanh 13y agoIndeed, we actually have users doing both of those examples! (None have opted to share their zaps, so the parents' links remain barren.)
- ceejayoz 13y agoTry this one on for size, then: https://zapier.com/zapbook/drupal/zapier/ https://zapier.com/zapbook/drupal/zapier/ "Sorry! This App Isn't Available Yet" spam is a frustrating thing to find when looking for converters between systems.
- mcintyre1994 13y agoIf you're Googling for an integration between two obscure web services, doesn't that imply you have an idea for how you want to use the integration between them? Finding out Zapier will allow you to seems like both useful and intelligent marketing.
- ceejayoz 13y agoExcept that's not what's offered. https://zapier.com/zapbook/drupal/zapier/ https://zapier.com/zapbook/drupal/zapier/ "Vote to connect Drupal and Zapier" brings up "Sorry! This App Isn't Available Yet". No integration is possible. It's a useless search result.
- mcintyre1994 13y agoFair enough, I see what you mean with that example. Does that only happen if one of the pairs is Zapier or are there others where it does too? Your other example seems to work, and in the comments they claimed it's used too.
- tectonic 13y agoIf you're looking for an open source alternative, please consider my Huginn project, which now has quite an active community. https://github.com/cantino/huginn https://github.com/cantino/huginn