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Ifttt is an extremely well-designed and useful service. I look forward to the day they get a business model so I can rely on it

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That's a really good point. A service like this has enough potential business use cases where I'm sure a lot of users would be willing to directly give them cash to ensure this is a long term company, not a flash in the pan startup.

Makes you think about the true intentions behind a startup/company.

I'll pay someone 10-30 bucks if they recreate ifttt with a pinboard model. Keep it simple stupid, fairly cheap, and charge extra if you want to do things like SMS/Voice/things that require constant notification.

That's exactly what I see ifttt becoming.

What do you mean by pinboard model?

You pay once to sign up, this fee increases with the ammount of users.

lol thanks, I'm so tired that I read (and then typed) pinboard as Pinterest. heh

yep. pinboard has both a "pay us one-time" model for bookmarking and an "annual-fee" model for special features like pdf archives.

That seems reasonable and fair, then again I'm sure he can pull it off well because as far as i know pinboard's a one-man bootstrapped company.

It's your lucky day! Make a detailed list of what you would want from such a service, divided into levels, and indicate how much you would pay for each level. Place the list here, or email it to me, and I'll try to build your ultimate ifttt clone. I like pinboard and ifttt, but I see ifttt as struggling to transition to a paying model because they are spending way too much time, money and energy supporting a large user base for free.

Yes, I "use" IFTTT regularly, but I barely ever use the website.

If I had to guess on a business model, maybe adding ads to the notifications?

Anywhere where he intended business model has been stated?

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