• TXL@sopuli.xyz
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    6 days ago

    Never heard of either, but “make” is about the worst possible name you could give any kind of product.

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      5 days ago

      It’s comparable to IFTTT or (now defunct) Yahoo Pipes. “Event on service A triggers action on service B” type stuff.

      For example, I use Zapier for things like webhooks on Discord: watching an RSS feed and having it post new updates into a Discord channel.

      You could just as easily have it watch, say, a weather site for area and push that to your email (or Pushover account, etc). Or alert you that an item you want is on sale. And so on.

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          5 days ago

          It was great. Was sad when they discontinued it.

          Zapier was the closest I could find to it (with a free tier based on number of actions per time period), but Isn’t visual. It sounds like Make is visual, though haven’t checked if there’s a free tier.

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      6 days ago

      Zapier provides automation service between different platforms, such as “if it rains tomorrow, send me an alert to take an umbrella”

      Used to be quite popular a few years ago, maybe not so much nowadays