Anyone use ifttt?

[planomateo]

Somehow I've been in the dark on this app and just found out about it.

Anyone here use this and how so?

 

[rick4bama]

What is it use for??

 

[rick4bama]

http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/2rnrw3/lpt_use_iftttcom_to_monitor_craigslist_and_ebay/
@planomateo this may help you.

 

[planomateo]

I'm not asking how to use it. Just wondering if anyone here uses it and what for.

To answer your question. It's basically an automation tool - it means If this, then that.

Where this and that you can define a trigger and then an action.

Examples.

1. You want to be notified every time something I'm looking for shows up on craigslist. Say you are looking for a snap-on torque wrench in birmingham, you could have this app search for it and send you a text or email when it finds it.
2. Another example, you want to be notified when there NOAA has a weather advisory in your county via text message.
3. You want to text someone when you leave a location.
4. You want to automatically change your facebook photos.

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

I used it for a bit to get notifications of sale items from reddit subs. After a bit I wound up disabling it and deactivating my account because I had already seen the sales before the emails came in. Guess I don't have much in life that I don't mind doing manually.