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On this topic, HN what are your coolest or most useful IFTTT recipes?

There are some neat recipes on IFTTT: https://ifttt.com/recipes?sort=popular

Interesting. None of these things compel me to use IFTTT.

They're not for everyone. For some, it saves time and effort immensely. Others use it for discovery. Me and you just watch from the sidelines.

True, IFTTT recipes are often too limited, because targeting non developers, they limit a lot inputs and ouputs of APIs. But all these APIs can do lot more. The reason why there we made webshell.io , "IFTTT for developers", enabling developers to script APIs in Javascript, with the whole expressivity of a a scripting language for more advanced APIs scripts(recipes) :)

The only recipe I have on IFTTT is one that watches their own Twitter stream and shoots me an email whenever they talk about new channels ;) For now, it's way too limited.

It will be always limited, because APIs are for developers, applications for humans. Only developers can levergage APIs to make advanced services.

If you are in the Bay Area, finding housing can be a pain and the key is to e-mail a listing immediately after its posted so you can skip the open house and view it privately.

This recipe allows you to get e-mailed as soon as Craiglist has a new listing: https://ifttt.com/recipes/79

I was a HUGE user of the 'Favorite tweet' -> 'Send Link to Readability' which allowed me to queue up a reading list before hopping on the subway in the morning.

Unfortunately, the Twitter Favorite hook has been discontinued and now I read more books on my kindle :(

True, but Twitter doesn't like 3d party services anymore.

This one is one I use the most: https://ifttt.com/recipes/71205

Anything I Buffer-Tweet automatically gets bookmarked in Diigo. Really helpful for having a list of bookmarks that I thought was interesting.

I'm using a dumb phone with perpetual battery life. I use IFTTT to send me texts 15 min ahead of my outlook calendar appointments. I also text notes to their number which push to my Evernote. I also had all a close friends tweets sent to my email since I don't really use twitter, but I turned that off eventually.

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