Was going to ask how IFTTT differs from Zapier, then found the following article somewhat useful:
http://blog.matt.thomm.es/post/63394262428/zapier-versus-if-...
In case others had the same question.
http://blog.matt.thomm.es/post/63394262428/zapier-versus-if-...
In case others had the same question.
I've never tried IFTTT, but I have used Zapier and the service is pretty good. My take is that engineers can set up scripts that can connect APIs themselves, which has benefits and drawbacks. Like it takes time to build a script that does this, and you have to keep it up to date as those APIs change, but on the other hand Zapier and probably IFTTT's integrations are very shallow and don't allow you to do much automatic processing of data.
Given their target market, I see that as their competitive advantage. It's all too easy to appeal to the very technical, and allow them to plugin scripts and filters and whatnot into the pipeline, but by reducing all of that complexity down to "if this, then that" they are much more approachable by a huge audience.
http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-Zapier-and...