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From a 30,000 foot level how does IFTTT and Zapier differentiate from each other? IIRC, Zapier is focusing more on business-related APIs but those are lines that I see eventually becoming very blurry.


@jobowoo, Zapier is for business, as IFTTT is for, well, users of (mostly) social networking type products. You can tell the clear difference by looking at the services provided by Zapier vs IFTTT.


Zapier seems well positioned to help companies sync data, and create streams of info between web APIs, IMO.


Taking this a step further, I see B2B (Zapier) as being more reliably monetizable than B2C (IFTTT)


They are already quite blurry.


I don't think it's as much of a problem for IFTTT as they're currently the dominant player with in my opinion the best product. If they don't sell to the enterprise then Zapier will be able to strike in that market.




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