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by bryanh 13y ago
Zapier co-founder here, this is incredible! It is fun and humbling to see people doing stuff I never would have predicted when we started Zapier. Thanks for sharing. :-)
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by bryanh 13y ago
Well, we are hiring! ;-) https://zapier.com/blog/help-automate-business-zapier-jobs-a...
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by bryanh 13y ago
Of course, there is a lot of nuance in the OAuth spec(s), but we didn't feel the need to be that verbose for an "An Introduction to APIs". We'd love to hear more about what broad but important aspect of OAuth that we mis
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Be the Frontend Architect at Zapier (YC S12)(zapier.com)
1 points by bryanh 13y ago
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Help Orchestrate Zapier (YC S12) as a Remote DevOps Engineer(zapier.com)
1 points by bryanh 13y ago
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by bryanh 13y ago
It should be back! We have an odd cache bug on those pages depending on traffic patterns!
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Work With 100s of APIs as a Remote Fullstack Engineer at Zapier (YC S12)(zapier.com)
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by bryanh 13y ago
We also just added this to Zapier in about 40 minutes with our developer platform [0], so if you want to create notes automatically, check us out: https://zapier.com/zapbook/onenote/ [0] https://zapier.
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by bryanh 13y ago
You might look into http://www.kimonolabs.com/ .
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by bryanh 13y ago
Indeed, we actually have users doing both of those examples! (None have opted to share their zaps, so the parents' links remain barren.)
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by bryanh 13y ago
Sure! In very broad strokes: First, download yourself a copy of Google's diff-match-patch. Second, make a template for the email you have (think "Your shipment will be delivered {{date}}. Thank you!" vs. the original raw emai
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by bryanh 13y ago
It is not possible to extract something (today) that would be generated inside a for loop. I'd be curious if anyone has ideas on how you might do that. If you need support for more complex emails and extraction rules, you might look in
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by bryanh 13y ago
That's clever! I had never thought to CC/BCC into our parser...
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by bryanh 13y ago
I really want to open source the core parsing bit which is based on diff-match-patch but I've got some cleanup to do before... It is probably not hard to reverse engineer what we're doing, it is pretty simple!
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by bryanh 13y ago
It can actually get pretty complex, the technique we're using is a wacky hacky hodgepodge of Google diff-match-patch that works surprisingly well! If you run into any that don't work, just let us know and we can add it to the te
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by bryanh 13y ago
Ah, thanks! Fix committed and pushing.
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by bryanh 13y ago
Happy to answer any questions! This tool has been in use for many months by some select Zapier users and we decided to finally release it. I definitely want to open source the core extractor bits and document the REST API that powers the Za
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Zapier Email Parser: Extract Text From Automated Emails(parser.zapier.com)
228 points by bryanh 13y ago|85 comments
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by bryanh 13y ago
`/topic/add` would be a fine URL to return the form HTML, the "RESTful" API would be like `POST /api/topic` where POST implies create and topic implies, well, topic.
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by bryanh 13y ago
The thing that worried me the most about Elasticsearch was how fragile it got around the limits of its performance. Run out of memory because of a nasty query? Boom, data corrupted. I hope you weren't using it as your primary persisten
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by bryanh 13y ago
Definitely not a market leader in developer experience.
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by bryanh 13y ago
Good point, I failed to mention that explicitly.
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by bryanh 13y ago
I'm assuming this is akin to the http://www.openttd.org/en/ or Doom clones where the "engine" is open source and you have to provide your own graphics/sounds/etc. As a stop gap until they compl
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by bryanh 13y ago
It looks very nice, but I'd kill for more contrast!
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by bryanh 13y ago
I'm always a bit shocked that people can be so dismissive, is there really a precedent of a value construct like bitcoin that we can extrapolate confidently from?
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by bryanh 13y ago
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6866822 .
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by bryanh 13y ago
I haven't a clue! That is an excellent question, most of our multiprocessing is done via some task based & message queue based map-reduce, so we've not needed to do process or thread profiling.
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by bryanh 13y ago
Op here, happy to answer any questions. These tools have helped us many times (from speeding up various Django extensions to some really complex code deep inside Zapier).
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Profiling Python Like a Boss(zapier.com)
95 points by bryanh 13y ago|17 comments
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by bryanh 13y ago
Well, myself and about 7 others so far! And thank you for using it! :-)

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