samuelbrashears

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by samuelbrashears 3y ago
"Roadmap" works sometimes, but there's definitely some guess-work. Clarifying with followup questions in chat is pretty valuable, and we're considering presenting the user with multiple plans to choose from when we'
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by samuelbrashears 3y ago
Definitely something we're looking at -- do you have more any details about your use case?
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by samuelbrashears 3y ago
Before creating a workflow, we present you a plan that you can confirm, so we won't delete stuff without your approval.
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by samuelbrashears 3y ago
We've opened everything up to free tier for the launch! And thanks for the suggestion :)
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by samuelbrashears 3y ago
Interesting -- we've definitely been building only on top of APIs. We've looked at automated form filling in the past, so it's something we're thinking about.
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by samuelbrashears 3y ago
Great idea -- we're looking at showing workflow history and this is a good addition.
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by samuelbrashears 3y ago
We do a fixed number of retries, including redoing any AI arguments. We've thought about making it atomic/more durable -- it's tricky, given that most steps interact with external systems e.g. Google Sheets, and while not typ
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by samuelbrashears 3y ago
1. Yes! This is useful for parsing unstructured data or inferring an argument (sometimes we can simply define a static data transformation through jq). 2. Anything too complex (e.g. 5+ steps) tends to be unreliable. Also, any workflow where
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by samuelbrashears 3y ago
Zapier is definitely trying, but they're not there yet. That feature unfortunately doesn't do much to configure the blocks for you (it just selects which to use) -- you're largely left to sift through the same menus to set it
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by samuelbrashears 3y ago
Zapier is working on something very similar! We actually did our live launch at the same event as them for their new chat product -- https://central.zapier.com/ . We think our UX is actually a lot simpler than there's i
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by samuelbrashears 3y ago
Zapier is already trying! We actually did our live launch at the same event as them for their new chat product -- https://central.zapier.com/ . At the moment though, they're pretty focused on fine-grained control and GU
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Launch HN: DryMerge (YC W24) – Automate Workflows with Plain English
179 points by samuelbrashears 3y ago|85 comments
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by samuelbrashears 3y ago
Really cool demo! Having it available right inside of Slack seems nice.