I heard a concern about the quality of the integrations that you might be able to make with Zapier and Glass.
Integrations are of course limited to what can fit inside the "trigger/action" model. However, most of the first-party Glass apps take advantage of Glass in about the same way and you can't extend them like you can with Zapier.
Glass is also a bit limited in how you can consume content. Right now you can read content from Gmail (only one inbox), SMS, CNN, New York Times, and maybe a few others. With Zapier you can push any content you want to the device in any format and filtered in any way.
Some of my favorite use cases while building the integration:
1. Take a photo on Glass -> Upload to Dropbox
2. Send RSS headlines to Glass, when I "share" a headline and add a caption -> Send to Buffer
3. Set up event reminders inside Google Calendar -> Send reminder to Glass when the event is about to start
All said, I'm super excited to see what others start building. Not just developers (we've had access to the Mirror API already) but what real users want to use Glass for.
Zapier users constantly blow me away with their creativity and given an open-ended device like Glass, I'm sure we'll see some super creative use cases.
Hey, I was trying to set this up. This looks really good. Sadly GitHub integration requires FULL GitHub account access with all permissions. So I skipped that one. I'm gonna try the RSS example in a bit...
Hey there! You might try using Github webhooks with our "Webhook" service which enables you to be a little more granular on the Github end about what gets sent.
This can cut both ways. I've had two experiences where I saw police officers do things that would have gotten the department in trouble if it'd been videotaped.
So, it may be a dream for some enforcement and a nightmare for others.
Sounds nice. I've been trying to use IFTTT for similar things, but it's fairly limited. If you add feedly I'll sign up! I'm still trying to find a nice easy solution to save the full text of RSS items that I mark as "save for later" in feedly...
I suggested to IFTTT that they support Glass as a target, but I haven't heard anything about it yet. (They have a form for suggesting channels, rather than anything like User Voice.)
Integrations are of course limited to what can fit inside the "trigger/action" model. However, most of the first-party Glass apps take advantage of Glass in about the same way and you can't extend them like you can with Zapier.
Glass is also a bit limited in how you can consume content. Right now you can read content from Gmail (only one inbox), SMS, CNN, New York Times, and maybe a few others. With Zapier you can push any content you want to the device in any format and filtered in any way.
Some of my favorite use cases while building the integration:
1. Take a photo on Glass -> Upload to Dropbox
2. Send RSS headlines to Glass, when I "share" a headline and add a caption -> Send to Buffer
3. Set up event reminders inside Google Calendar -> Send reminder to Glass when the event is about to start
All said, I'm super excited to see what others start building. Not just developers (we've had access to the Mirror API already) but what real users want to use Glass for.
Zapier users constantly blow me away with their creativity and given an open-ended device like Glass, I'm sure we'll see some super creative use cases.