The only trigger for the action is sending a Yo. I supposed you could have more than one recipe active if you don't mind executing all the recipes at the same time. :P
Because you have the first step of all of these recipes is to Yo yourself.
So if you have more than one recipe active time all of the events will happen at once. I.e. if you have the first three recipes all active you will simultaneously: call yourself, turn your lights off, and text your friend when you activate them by Yo-ing yourself.
Which is an impractical way of controlling your life.
This reminds me of the alien language from Stargate. They had plans to make a whole language, but the vocabulary used in the show actually got smaller and smaller until they just had one word, "Kree!" It's a command that means "do what you're supposed to!" The alien overlords would just yell it at whomever was standing around, like punctuation.
I've already heard NPR's MarketPlace refer to Yo even getting 15 minutes of fame as an indication that a "tech bubble" could be looming. What next, some kid makes an app that lets your phone dial somebody with one click? Oh wait, that's called Speed Dial.
Yeah. It can be used to call waiters without investing into a raspberry pie / arduino and a bunch of rotary devices for each waiter when they all have phones.
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.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 90.4 ms ] threadEdit: The above should be seen as a bit tongue-in-cheek.
So if you have more than one recipe active time all of the events will happen at once. I.e. if you have the first three recipes all active you will simultaneously: call yourself, turn your lights off, and text your friend when you activate them by Yo-ing yourself.
Which is an impractical way of controlling your life.
Probably the least developed language of all time.
http://i.imgur.com/IEjkirh.png
But Bloomberg is with me now - http://www.bloomberg.com/video/is-the-yo-app-the-latest-exam...
I'd probably pay a few dollars for a version that was more open and supported e.g. webhooks. But I guess that's Zapier.
What sorts of Recipes would you like to set up?
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.
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 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.
Agreed!