Ifttt raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors

I wish they supported Dropbox by accessing only a single directory, I'm a little reluctant to give it access to all my files.

Great looking service with some deal breakers:<p>Needs Access to my entire dropbox account<p>Requests access to "Gmail" (I have no idea how much access that provides). Why can't it just set the To: Address on an outgoing email? Ifttt has been sending me emails no problem so far. The Gmail permission crosses a line. It doesn't help that Google doesn't explain what access I would grant.<p>Seems they took the easier path and just defaulted to full permissions. I'm sure enough people don't mind that it was the right decision. Just a personal deal breaker.<p>Also the Recipe filter needs a quick way to specify "Only my active channels." Or/also, my dashboard reads "8 Channels with 264 possible task combinations. " Why isn't this a link to existing recipes filtered by my active channels?<p>Ifttt provides no method for deleting your ifttt account or purging your external information.

Ifttt is an extremely well-designed and useful service. I look forward to the day they get a business model so I can rely on it

I agree, great service. I use it to monitor posts to the support forum for the product I work on. People at work think I am constantly monitoring the forums to respond so quickly for questions I can answer, but no, I just follow links from SMS messages that ifttt sends to me.

What would be their business model?

I just signed up and starting exploring Ifttt, and WOW. This is EXTREMELY useful and practical (at least for me). My kind of site/app.<p>A few uses off the top of my head:<p>- When searching for a new apartment or house and using Craigslist as one of your sources, use Ifttt to get a text/email when a new, relevant Craigslist post appears matching your search criteria<p>- Automatically add a new Wordpress blog post to Buffer when published

This is an awesome service. I reached out trying to get a channel for NewsBlur, since Google Reader is there, but they said that there's an API coming and I should just wait for that. Kind of unfortunate since this is one of those services that--while brand new--a number of my users have asked for.<p>I bet it's a good feeling when users of other services are banging on the door asking for integration with ifttt.

This service is great. I'm really excited to see it grow. Congrats on the funding. It would be great to be able to login to multiple accounts of the same service. Might already be a feature, but I wasn't able to get that set up. Sent a support email. Hopefully that can be added. Really pumped about where this will go.

Is this Yahoo Pipes 2.0?

Very interesting idea I hadn't heard of yet; does anyone know how they deal with services that do not have APIs conducive to this type of application? Or are all of the recipes pre-constructed by the IFTTT team to be sure the data in/data out constitutes a valid use of the service APIs in question?

Big time congrats to Linden and his team. Ifttt is a really good tool with lot's of potential.

I think dropbox would benefit greatly from acquiring Ifttt. Think about it, It seems to align with the whole filesystem of the internet thing incredibly. I have files on widgetA, whenever somebody shares files on widgetA with me, push it to my dropbox.

It's a real bummer to see perfectly capable companies with enough traction taking funding.

Congrats Linden! Integrations have massive potential, and ifttt is paving the way.

Ifttt is awesome! I was wondering if there is a similar app for mobile devices that I can create rules like "if I am at home (judging by WiFi) then ..." or "if the battery falls below 20% then turn off BT"?

Can some of that money goes towards building an API for Daytum.com? :)<p>Anyway, glad to see that this service will grow, it's really useful.

Yes! They're on it, it's awesome. I'm looking forward for Path to have a public API, that will be the stuff. Have you guys notice the ~12h delay in which Path posts to Facebook or Twitter?

Congrats! (I participated in the round)