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Re:IFTTT raises $7M from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Lerer by TomAnthony on Thursday December 20, 2012 @04:53PM (#4950286)
What is the monetisation options for IFTTT?

They've now received $8.5M in funding, but charge nothing for the service, AFAIK? I'm interested to know how that is going to make a return for the investors.

(I love IFTTT, and think it is a great service - just interested to know/learn)

Re:IFTTT raises $7M from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Lerer by sologoub on Thursday December 20, 2012 @06:33PM (#4950674)
The integrator market is insanely large. There are very big name players that are effectively system integrators and charge huge sums of money to get different systems to talk to each other.

Once they have the platform fully ironed out, the level of application for Enterprise clients is virtually limitless.

For example, imagine if you could build a workflow by dragging and dropping to connect your Salesforce.com implementation with your back-office provisioning applications, based on a conditional logic and then send out SMS confirmation to the client, make a SFDC case note and update a bunch of statuses... all without writing a single line of code.

Enterprises already pay for this through the nose. They will keep paying, because it's worth it.

Enterprise customers also LOVE control. If they can have a business analyst do the work, instead of hiring an army of 3rd party integrators, they will over pay for it. If they can keep everything in-house at a reasonable cost, they will.

Re:IFTTT raises $7M from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Lerer by josh2600 on Thursday December 20, 2012 @06:58PM (#4950749)
Enterprise usually means proprietary data structures. If IFTTT could go from SAP to ADP that would be worth a lot of money.

Don't get me wrong, IFTTT can do a lot of cool stuff, but Enterprise is inherently difficult because of proprietary everything. Implementing a layer of abstraction means abstracting away this complexity through code to create a simple interface. IFTTT has a simple interface, but expanding into systems in the Enterprise won't be easy.

Re:IFTTT raises $7M from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Lerer by pdog on Thursday December 20, 2012 @11:21PM (#4951470)
"For example, imagine if you could build a workflow by dragging and dropping to connect your Salesforce.com implementation with your back-office provisioning applications, based on a conditional logic and then send out SMS confirmation to the client, make a SFDC case note and update a bunch of statuses... all without writing a single line of code."

That third paragraph sounds like an important thing, but also sounds like a hellhole I'd never want to work at :)

Re:IFTTT raises $7M from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Lerer by slykat on Thursday December 20, 2012 @05:06PM (#4950359)
They will probably charge for heavy usage and enterprise connections (Salesforce, Basecamp, etc.) similar to Zapier: https://zapier.com/app/signup
Re:IFTTT raises $7M from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Lerer by justhw on Thursday December 20, 2012 @04:54PM (#4950298)
Article states it will become a SasS. Perhaps charge $5 month and so on depending on how many updates/connections you make.

It can also provide an all-in-one api for developers working with the products supported on IFTTT.

Re:IFTTT raises $7M from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Lerer by TomAnthony on Thursday December 20, 2012 @05:16PM (#4950417)
Interesting. $5 per month = $60 per year, so if they got 50,000 users it would still take almost 3 years to make the money back, excluding running costs.

I'm often a bit surprised at how such companies can prove to be a good investment - I feel like there is something I'm missing in the numbers.

Re:IFTTT raises $7M from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Lerer by n9com on Thursday December 20, 2012 @05:40PM (#4950500)
Because they don't need to be profitable - they'll probably end up getting acquired by a bigger company - thus is the world of VC...
Re:IFTTT raises $7M from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Lerer by kryptiskt on Thursday December 20, 2012 @06:12PM (#4950610)
50,000 paying users sounds awfully unambitious for a VC-backed web startup. A projection of a modest Pinboard-like future like that can't possibly be what these firms are basing their investment decisions on. They probably think IFTTT have a shot at getting millions of users.