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Mike Knoop
@mikeknoop · Co-founder & CPO, Zapier
This is really exciting to me. It's a huge fundamental shift in how the best apps get built on Zapier. Remember when iOS 1 only allowed webview apps? Then Apple opened up and allowed native apps? Thats the magnitude of this change, from a developers perspective. You can now build Zapier apps fully in code, locally, with tests and libraries, versioning, and collaboration using our new CLI.
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✎ Andrew Warner
@andrewwarner
@mikeknoop could you give some examples of what you're envisioning being made with this?
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Mike Knoop
@mikeknoop · Co-founder & CPO, Zapier
@andrewwarner good question! For users, short term, this means more reliable integrations that leverage all the features of Zapier's platform (eg. triggers, actions, and searches) -- often times apps could accidentally make breaking changes or omit features because the web UI was limiting or hard to use. Long term, we'll be able to create new combinations of actions (eg. "lookup or create") that can be used to build more powerful Zaps.
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Bryan Harris
@harris_bryan
@andrewwarner I have the same question
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Parker Woodward
@parkerwoodward
@mikeknoop @andrewwarner Would a good example be...lookup user in X app and then create Z action if Y happens. Maybe for you Andrew...cuz I know you love your bots lately...if X user sends your bot a message that it doesn't know how to respond to...zapier could send that message to you (or someone) via text or messenger maybe, who could then reply with an answer so it would both answer the message and teach the bot to answer like that next time the same question comes up.
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