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Re:With $30M More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Th... by lazerwalker on Thursday August 28, 2014 @01:23PM (#8238483)
This exactly. I understand why they haven't done it, but the number of things I'd love to build as a hobbyist if only I could get a REST endpoint to trigger or enter a webhook URL to receive actions...
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Re:With $30M More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Th... by kevinebaugh on Thursday August 28, 2014 @01:25PM (#8238502)
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!
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Re:With $30M More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Th... by eli on Thursday August 28, 2014 @01:34PM (#8238549)
A generic REST Endpoint action and a generic Webhook trigger would pretty much do it, but I can imagine why you wouldn't want to offer that.
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Re:With $30M More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Th... by gdilla on Thursday August 28, 2014 @01:45PM (#8238618)
Would pubnub or dweet.io work for you?
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Re:With $30M More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Th... by zrgiu_ on Friday August 29, 2014 @08:43AM (#8242253)
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.
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Re:With $30M More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Th... by Bug_Labs on Thursday August 28, 2014 @01:45PM (#8238620)
http://dweet.io can give you a rest endpoint. It is very easy and open source
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Re:With $30M More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Th... by lazerwalker on Friday August 29, 2014 @11:52AM (#8243041)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Dweet doesn't really solve the use case of "I want to connect my hobby app with existing third-party APIs without having to do manual integrations". It's great for home IoT setups, sure, but that's not the main use case I care about.
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Re:With $30M More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Th... by ChuckMcM on Thursday August 28, 2014 @01:51PM (#8238665)
This, dweet is a nice solution here.
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