Comments on post “Multi-Step Zaps by Zapier”
levelsio
@levelsio · Founder of Nomad List
I love this. I always tweet and talk about automation apps like Zapier and IFTT everywhere. They're both great, although I use Zapier more as their speed of new features added is faster now.
For example, I take pre-orders for my book at https://makebook.io via Typeform, payment goes to Stripe, then Zapier pushes the customer details to MailChimp, and then Zapier sends people the first chapters to their email. Another one, when people sign up to Nomad List, automatically Zapier sends them an introduction via Slack. Also when I receive an invoice by email, Zapier tries to detect it and automatically files it in my bookkeeping spreadsheet on Google Docs. It still takes some manual editing after, but it saves time.
I used to code all this stuff myself as little scheduled shell scripts, and I still do, but wherever possible I try to automate it via Zapier. It's not perfect, sometimes Zapier doesn't detect the correct API data for example making it useless, but most of the times it works and then it keeps working. The problem with coding your own scripts around APIs is that APIs keep changing, so sometimes your scripts will just stop working. Zapier checks APIs themselves, so that saves loaaaads of time.
I'm a huge believer that the future of startups is less code, and Zapier is a tool that makes that future a little more real.
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Wade Foster
@wadefoster · Co-founder & CEO at Zapier
@levelsio One cool thing you might like is the new code app. It lets you write a little javascript between steps to manipulate the data from a trigger before posting to an action. It's great for all those times when Zapier doesn't have API data in quite the right format for you.
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Alexander Khanukov
@akhanukov · CX/UX strategist, nascent entrepreneur
@wadefoster @levelsio Ahhh. Like my old Google Scripts still cracking away in the background. Will look into this. Thanks!
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