I got your automated email and came to HN to see what others were saying about Do ... found nada. Like a half dozen links posted with no comments. I'm planning to play with it -- I just hope it doesn't confuse the home/life automation crowd by splitting into two apps. It's already a really fragmented ecosphere.
We're building a way for others to build and take ownership of their Channels: https://ifttt.com/platform Hobby or personal Channels are an interesting idea!
No, they're not really. We're building Smart IR Remote (universal remote android app) and AnyMote (hardware, now on kickstarter), and we applied on IFTTT's link over a month ago, without any reply. Didn't even get back to us.
The big one is HipChat, which I've already suggested at least twice :)
Otherwise, it would just be cool to be able to use IFTTT as part of custom little programs. For example, I have a script that notices when a url on our server suddenly gets a spike in traffic. It would be cool to be able to have push to a IFTTT API and have it trigger whatever actions I want. Likewise, it would be cool to have webhooks so that I could have some custom action that's triggered by IFTTT. Maybe this is outside the scope of how you want people using the service.
Have you tried Slack instead of Hipchat? My old gig used HipChat, and my new one uses Slack, and I find the difference between the two to be night and day.
I did try both and picked HipChat (though I now have a few regrets). Slack's lack of native Windows client was a real bummer and, frankly, I found the Slack interface unnecessarily confusing.
I think they need a "simple" mode or the ability to turn some features off by default.
That said, Slack's integration with 3rd party services like Github is just straight up better than HipChat. And after using it for a while there are a couple of small (fixable!) things about HipChat that are really irritating.
> I did try both and picked HipChat (though I now have a few regrets). Slack's lack of native Windows client was a real bummer and, frankly, I found the Slack interface unnecessarily confusing. I think they need a "simple" mode or the ability to turn some features off by default.
I think its personal preference, but I can see that.
> That said, Slack's integration with 3rd party services like Github is just straight up better than HipChat. And after using it for a while there are a couple of small (fixable!) things about HipChat that are really irritating.
For sure, this is all just my opinion. Did they ever come out with a real Windows client, thought? That was an annoyance for me, I imagine it would be a dealbreaker for some enterprises.
Will there be calendar functionality beyond google calendar? I would love to be able to use my caldav/fruux calendars with IFTTT. I saw a tweet from the folks over at fruux who mentioned willingness to help out wit that.
