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With $30M More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Things

203 点作者 novum超过 10 年前

28 条评论

idlewords超过 10 年前
IFTTT strikes me as the canonical example of a useful, small project that people would pay for that instead got stars in its eyes. For the moment, it's a great example of venture capitalists subsidizing a useful adapter cable for Internet services. But I get nervous when infrastructure gets delusions of grandeur. If 'cron' suddenly acquired a staff of 40, I would start looking for alternatives.
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jeswin超过 10 年前
&gt; While IFTTT’s dream is for all companies to play nicely together via its open platform...<p>A closed-source integration service is not an open platform, and this is especially relevant when it is an integration platform. I am betting (and building something towards the same ends) on more people embracing and promoting open alternatives than at any time before. IFTTT&#x27;s market is huge. There are millions of programmers around the world who&#x27;ll never write any code outside work, and they vastly outnumber the rest of us. The next step in open and free software will be making coding, forking and deploying apps as easy as editing Wikipedia.
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nreece超过 10 年前
@Pinboard: &quot;Right now the IFTTT business model is to charge one user $30M, rather than lots of users $2. The challenge will be with recurring payments&quot;<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/505081162264363008" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Pinboard&#x2F;status&#x2F;505081162264363008</a>
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LokiMH超过 10 年前
My personal feelings on IFTTT after using it are that it has a massive potential as an incredible handy tool. However, at the moment the focus seems to be primarily on social media interaction and optimization. This is all well and good, but I would love to see more integration with the features of my Android device.<p>At this precise moment an example is not jumping to mind, but I know several times now I have seen a trigger option in the list that I could make use of but could not find listed the universal Android feature I wanted to use as the resultant action.<p>Conversely when trying to create rules for something like having my phone muted in a specific location I had to create two triggers: First a trigger to mute my phone upon entering a location and Second a trigger to turn volume up upon leaving a certain location. Standing back to look at what I was trying do it is easy to understand that yes there are two Ifs that I want my phone to react to (entering an area and leaving it) but having the option to choose &quot;while in area&quot; or &quot;while outside of area&quot; would be great. I think this comes down to a difference between literal if This action then That action and if This idea then That action.<p>IFTTT is clearly programmed how it operates rather than how people tend to think. As someone that has done programming, I get that and can work with it, but it doesn&#x27;t seem the ideal model for use by the average person.<p>All this having been said I think it is a fun, wonderful gadget and I look forward to seeing how it grows. Now if only I could figure out why my triggers have been failing of late...
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kenrose超过 10 年前
Was going to ask how IFTTT differs from Zapier, then found the following article somewhat useful:<p><a href="http://blog.matt.thomm.es/post/63394262428/zapier-versus-if-this-then-that" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.matt.thomm.es&#x2F;post&#x2F;63394262428&#x2F;zapier-versus-if-...</a><p>In case others had the same question.
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ceejayoz超过 10 年前
@Pinboard: &quot;Maybe the $30 M will allow IFTTT to stop asking people for their Pinboard passwords, and use the API token&quot;<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/505031713681330176" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;Pinboard&#x2F;status&#x2F;505031713681330176</a>
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carsonreinke超过 10 年前
Too bad they don&#x27;t open their platform up without requiring official partnership.
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jazzychad超过 10 年前
And <i>still</i> no webhooks - <a href="http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/08/05/ifttt-needs-webhooks-stat.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jazzychad.net&#x2F;2012&#x2F;08&#x2F;05&#x2F;ifttt-needs-webhooks-st...</a><p>This one thing would blow up usage by developers across the board.
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scintill76超过 10 年前
Anyone else want the phrase &quot;internet of things&quot; to die? I guess it&#x27;s not rational, but it just bugs me more and more every time it comes up. Too buzz-wordy or something.
namityadav超过 10 年前
IFTTT is at a great spot to bring simple programming &amp; logic to non-programmers who just want to customize how they interact with technology just a little bit. Looks like Yahoo Pipes missed a big opportunity there.<p>However, the IFTTT homepage and WTF page are still too complicated for a casual visitor. The WTF page throws all these terms like Channels, Triggers, Actions, Ingredients, Recipes, etc instead of focusing on telling the visitor what they can do with IFTTT. The name (If This Then That) is amazing for explaining what IFTTT is. But, beyond that, they seem to be making things look more complicated than they need to be.
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afro88超过 10 年前
Interesting no one mentioned Huginn [1]. It&#x27;s open, and perfect for &quot;internet of things&quot; stuff. I&#x27;ve done some of the basic IOT stuff that&#x27;s mentioned in the article with Huginn (open doors at specific times, turn on lights etc).<p>Sure it might not be as pretty as IFTTT (and I&#x27;m sure however IFTTT implement interfaces for IOT stuff will look great.. $30MM great) but they&#x27;re working on it.<p>[1] <a href="http://github.com/cantino/huginn" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cantino&#x2F;huginn</a>
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phireph0x超过 10 年前
Number one feature request for IFTTT: support multiple conditions, i.e. if this AND this AND this then that<p>As is stands now, for me, IFTTT is cute (I&#x27;ve played around with the app and website) but not really useful for many things without multiple conditions.
beamatronic超过 10 年前
I developed an IFTTT integration in the last couple of weeks. Their support team was very helpful. They even shared some sample code with me via GitHub. Their documentation was great and I really liked their built in regression test.
ruff超过 10 年前
I&#x27;d bet $100M on IFTTT if I had it. They&#x27;ve got an amazing ecosystem of often proprietary devices and services feeding event information into them.<p>v1 is rules by end-users—v10 intelligence by the system.<p>What if they could take that data and create concepts around the identity of people using those devices, where they are at certain times, what they&#x27;re doing, etc. etc. Turn all that data around and broker it back to services&#x2F;devices, making each of the providers that much more powerful but dependent upon IFTTT. It&#x27;s super-charging the internet of things in a way that perhaps only Google (with Google Now) seems to be thinking.
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joshdance超过 10 年前
How is IFTTT going to make money?
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willhinsa超过 10 年前
Hopefully this happens:<p>Google Now integration<p>Answer whether I need an umbrella today (will have to know where I work, when I go to work, lunch, home.)<p>Currently I can only build an alert on whether it&#x27;ll rain tomorrow. I end up having to check Google Now, and sliding across the hours of the day to make a judgment about whether it&#x27;s worth it or not to bring an umbrella.
bluetidepro超过 10 年前
Congrats to IFTTT. I really love all the integrations they have going for them. They are making some great progress with their product.<p>Slightly off topic, but has anyone figured out a good way to use IFTTT to do &quot;If this <i>AND</i> this then that&quot; type of recipes?
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JoeAtArrayent超过 10 年前
IFTTT is in an excellent position to help users and the IoT industry solve the problem of non-standardization of clouds&#x2F;APIs. For now they just enable a lot of simple &quot;recipes&quot;, but they can now go WAY BEYOND this and make the &quot;everything app&quot; that let&#x27;s me view&#x2F;control&#x2F;mashup all of my devices and social media, etc. Having the huge ecosystem already nailed down puts them so far ahead of everybody. I would pay for this app, but many will not. They could be a great acquisition play for a company that wants to dominate at this layer and is late to the game.
Havoc超过 10 年前
Using IFTTT strikes me as a bit of a security risk or am I missing something?
SilasX超过 10 年前
Wow, I&#x27;m amazed by the progress. I remember when IFTTT was above the DevBootcamp hq on 5th and Market and I stopped by to visit (which would have been early-mid 2012). I remember the cute dog and still have some craigslist alerts going that I set up shortly after. Also remember talking about their goal of getting the average person to do programming-like tasks in terms of setting up chains of conditionals and actions.<p>Also, the name still makes me think of Riften from Skyrim.
Discrete超过 10 年前
Having developed a couple of &quot;wearable&quot; computing products, I can appreciate what IFTTT offers for early adopting consumers. Most companies making new products don&#x27;t have the time to work on too many integrations (not to mention all the contractual stuff to even be able to start). They give the early adopter a way around at least some of that problem, and I know a significant number of users appreciate that.
tmarthal超过 10 年前
What is interesting to me is that IFTTT is running as a cloud platform, yet some of these devices won&#x27;t be accessible outside the wireless LAN. I wonder if they are going to have to create a hardware piece, software service or something that communicates to their servers and translates the scripted commands and relevant statuses.<p>But also, this is a huge market and someone needs to do this.
chickenandrice超过 10 年前
I really like automators like IFFT as they save the time from having to yet again keep up with breaking API changes from crappy company xyz (ex: Facebook). The problem with all of them seems they don&#x27;t actually work reliably.<p>I tried IFFT a number of times. I&#x27;d love for it to work, but I only use it as a &quot;it&#x27;s ok if this breaks, missing data, etc.&quot; tool. Admittedly this is not 100% their fault as you are at the mercy of the shoddiness of other APIs, but bugs upon bugs and the less than reliable nature of IFFT actually executing things in a timely, durable manner makes it 100x less useful and impossible to build on top of for real apps.<p>I also feel that from a business point of view, relying on other people&#x27;s services is consistently a trap. Whether it&#x27;s social networks like Twitter, COTS like SharePoint, or something like Evernote, it&#x27;s always a trap. These businesses can break your code at any time they choose, shut off your service, or simply go under. It takes a lot of work circumventing their bugs and terrible APIs as well. Hats off for trying, but I don&#x27;t feel like a company like this is usually a good long-term investment.<p>Add to these problems the fact that most internet &quot;typical&quot; users would never use IFFT or &quot;get it&quot; the way it&#x27;s presented today. Moreover, most programmers want more control, something more powerful, or can just do everything here better themselves exactly to their use cases. Not seeing how this company is worth much even if it is &quot;useful.&quot; Profitable != useful many times.
rrggrr超过 10 年前
IFTT and Zapier are two of the most exciting companies to watch in tech right now. Why? Because automation and programming are still inaccessible to most people, but the need and interest is widespread. IFTT and Zapier, both of which I use, are racing for breadth of services they integrate as opposed to depth of a service&#x27;s API they expose&#x2F;support. I think that is a mistake. I also believe the first of the two to support industrial devices, a robust security model and open source hardware will run dominate the space. There are only so many Mailchimp, Salesforce, Google Docs integrations of value - but infinite use cases for device integration. On this score perhaps IFTT has a lead. IFTT and Zapier are what, IMHO, Apple&#x27;s Automator should have been. I think Apple may have missed the mark throwing resources at Swift, when the much larger market is end-user integrations. I might add applications like Tasker and Locale on Android add a ton of value to those platforms, at the expense of the iPhone, and Apple remains largely absent on the integration front.
abad79超过 10 年前
IFTTT looks like a great concept that will be replicated in the near future from other services following the massive growth that the internet of things, specially wearable devices will bring to the internet ecosystem.
zubairov超过 10 年前
Very interesting... paid IFTTT account, I&#x27;m quite sceptical about that, I would expect the licensing contracts with Philips, Belkin, et al. are the main revenue source and will remain to be it in future...
brettcvz超过 10 年前
Requisite comment on these sorts of posts - we are hiring for positions across the board: <a href="https://ifttt.com/jobs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ifttt.com&#x2F;jobs</a><p>It&#x27;s a fun place with cool stuff going on.
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digitalsurgeon超过 10 年前
IFTTT surely has a lot of potential. IOT device management might become a problem for normal users, if IOT does become mainstream in the future.<p>The normal scenarios which we can think of right now for example coming home and things turn on to appropriate settings, blocking phones during meetings etc are surely easy for us to understand, but my parents if they figure these things out and can setup such tasks them selves, I see a huge market and use for such services. It is still too geeky for normal people, it needs to provide use cases for normal folks not just tweeps or facebook generation.<p>IFTTT needs the money, their servers used to be slow when I last used it.