Show HN: Bipio - For People and Robots

It is a little similar to IFTTT (and Zapier and Elastic.io) but was definitely more inspired by Yahoo Pipes. The project is many years old via several pivots, it started out as an email anonymizer > rss transform aggregator when I was going through a semantic web phase. I'm not sure of Pipes underlying implementation, but Bipio uses a (distributed) digraph to process channels/functions with virtually limitless complexity. Others on the market seemed locked into a simpler functional predicate.

Bipio is geared towards the sweet spot of developer flexibility and non-developer productivity, so the problem I'm trying to solve is 'how do I give programmer flexibility to users who don't care (or have need to care) about programming'. You can get as much under the hood of Bipio as you want, or use a very highly abstracted UI, which I'm still building, to just get stuff done. A fundamental difference beyond the open API is the ability to power a web application, or be an email gatekeeper, or content aggregator etc. or model very complex pipelines easily. I have someone using it to sell .psd templates on etsy straight from dropbox, completely hands off, which was a really interesting use case (and a 30 minute setup all things considered including testing).

Given enough interest, it will likely progress to an open source model circa Wordpress, so I can really start concentrating and understanding the human interaction side of these types of services.

Thanks for the feedback! :)