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And still no webhooks - http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/08/05/ifttt-needs-webhooks-stat.html http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/08/05/ifttt-needs-webhooks-st... Thi

• scintill76 12y ago
  "There's a big strategic risk in you guys offering web hooks: it facilitates competitors piggybacking on your event detection and building high value response services that compete directly with your own. In other words, you become a piece of costly-to-maintain middleware and others capture the real consumer value." -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4344335 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4344335 In other words, something like webhooks hurts the bottom line of this "open platform" (quote from OP.) Maybe IFTTT is only useful because a lot of the services it consumes don't make it easy to do these things, because it would diminish their own value. It's greedy walled gardens all the way down.
  • speleding 12y ago
    Their main competitor Zapier.com does offer web hooks, in an open fashion, so I'm not sure that argument still holds. Also, there is still a lot of value that can be added by the middleware besides repeated polling, such as filtering and facilitating easy setup