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For some reason, this comment really read like a marketing testimonial.

well they have a vested interest in discussing their product/company, and given their association with the OP, they chose to describe it in a positive way.

this is what a testimonial would be if testimonials were invented in 2014

as a former freelancer whose work gross last year came from doing Zapier integrations for vendors (some currently public catalogue services, others private), i can subscribe to sunsu's comment as entirely accurate, given that the problems i was asked to solve and was payed for, covered that nature of what was described and more.

If you want infuriating marketing, try Googling for an integration between two obscure web services.

The Zapier "Zapbook" automatically makes a page for each possible combination of the services they hook into, giving useless bullshit like https://zapier.com/zapbook/ducksboard/aim/ (which, by the way, isn't the same as https://zapier.com/zapbook/aim/ducksboard/ either).

If you're Googling for an integration between two obscure web services, doesn't that imply you have an idea for how you want to use the integration between them? Finding out Zapier will allow you to seems like both useful and intelligent marketing.

Except that's not what's offered.

https://zapier.com/zapbook/drupal/zapier/

"Vote to connect Drupal and Zapier" brings up "Sorry! This App Isn't Available Yet". No integration is possible. It's a useless search result.

Fair enough, I see what you mean with that example. Does that only happen if one of the pairs is Zapier or are there others where it does too? Your other example seems to work, and in the comments they claimed it's used too.

Not just Zapier. For example, as far as I can tell, Zapier doesn't support either Drupal or Netsuite (neither is on their list of apps), but this page exists: https://zapier.com/zapbook/drupal/netsuite/

Zapier lets you connect apps together in interesting ways, whether or not it really makes sense to. Maybe someone out there will find it useful to be able to manage their dashboards with instant messages.

Indeed, we actually have users doing both of those examples! (None have opted to share their zaps, so the parents' links remain barren.)

Try this one on for size, then: https://zapier.com/zapbook/drupal/zapier/

"Sorry! This App Isn't Available Yet" spam is a frustrating thing to find when looking for converters between systems.

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