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Kragle – A user-extensible web automation tool – Private beta users wanted

Kragle is a web api and service automation tool similar to IFTTT and Zapier, with some added benefits: the core functionality is user-extensible, meaning that you don't need to wait for us to add support for your favourite site, or get annoyed by the fact that you can't use it to connect to your own in-house systems, etc.You can use Kragle to connect anything that speaks JSON over REST to...

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Ask HN: How to generate interest/traffic for my open source projects?

Just wondering what methods people have found success with for generating interest/traffice (read: usage) in their free and/or open-source projects/tools/etc? It seems like simply contributing to an existing, relatively popular project can be a little tough sometimes, as far as getting people to review/read and merge your patches, etc... it's often that much harder to generate any usage of a...

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