358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.221s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.

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coreyhn ◴[12 Oct 25 03:07 UTC] No.45554825[source]▶

Yahoo pipes. It was so great at creating rss feeds and custom workflows. There are replacements now like Zapier and n8n but loved that. Also google reader which is mentioned multiple times already.

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1. gregsadetsky ◴[12 Oct 25 11:53 UTC] No.45557522[source]▶

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Definitely recommend reading https://retool.com/pipes about the history of Pipes, with lots of input from the people who worked on it

(It’s not super obvious, especially on mobile, but once you see the site, just scroll down to see the content)

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