Zapier Natural Language Actions
Infrastructure
api platform
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
11 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score +0.25.
Idea: 6 for, 1 againstExecution: 2 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Congratulations on the launch and useful for many users
From 3 comments
Congrats on the launch. Looks useful for certain types of users. I can imagine it now: > Hey Zapier, generate a new Keygen license for ACME Co. and send the license key to them…
ezekg on HNCongratulations Zapier team! I've been an active Zapier user for the past 6 or so years, and my teams have adopted it for various simple integration projects. I'm excited to see…
extragood on HNCongrats on the launch y'all, this is very neat! This was obviously a big effort. I'm excited to see how the introduction of AI will change the way integrations are built,…
xavdid on HN
Objections
Landing page does not explain what the product is
From 2 comments
Zapier's landing page doesn't live up to what they're releasing. Be sure to check out the LangChain integration and examples.…
mmaia on HNWould’ve been nice to say what Zapier is.
ShadowBanThis01 on HN
Breaking changes to integrations without deprecation warnings
From 2 comments
Hey Zapier! Stop introducing breaking changes into your integrations without deprecation warnings. Follow semver like normal people, or at the very least, publish a release…
trhr on HNI don't know the inner workings of their deployment strategy, just that we couldn't trust the platform not to break in prod. And breaking the sales team workflow in prod is a…
trhr on HN
Requests
Fix replying to Gmail threads
From 1 comment
I wonder if they fixed replying to Gmail threads. Last time I tried, without the NLP layer, it failed to do anything but create new threads.
BrianOnHN on HN
Access to the waitlist and rollout timing
From 1 comment
Joined the wait list 1 week ago - any news on when it will open up or how fast you are taking new users?
nico on HN
Questions
When will access open and how fast are new users admitted?
From 1 comment
Joined the wait list 1 week ago - any news on when it will open up or how fast you are taking new users?
nico on HN
What does innovation beyond API connectors look like?
From 1 comment
I would really love to hear a bit about Zapier's pursuit towards innovation. There are quite a few workflows automation platform out there. It is now an entire industry. With…
ahmed_ds on HN
Alternatives named
Pipedream
From 1 comment
Take a look at https://pipedream.com/apps/openai/actions/summarize
dylburger on HN
LangChain
From 1 comment
Related: I've been seeing a ton of news/references to LangChain recently. My own team is working closely with LLMs, and my non-technical cofounder is pushing hard for us to adopt…
killthebuddha on HN