[Fuzzwah]

I might be your target market.

I use google keep for online plain text type things. I can definitely see the power of being able to run scripts over these kinds of notes.

For years I had been using a system which was built around yahoo pipes and cron tasks. Pipes would suck in rss sources from a huge number of places, do some munging and logic and output another rss feed which I would process with a cron task to do various things based on what was in the feed.

Then yahoo killed pipes.

Can a script create a static output file?

[viraptor]

Have you tried lambda + s3 instead of yahoo pipes + cron? (both time and http activation is possible) I've done something on lambda recently I'd use pipes for (if it still existed) and been quite happy with the result.

[iheartmemcache]

I sort of wanted to find a use-case for Pipes and IFTTT, but I couldn't. I think I used it a few times to hunt for craigslist deals on vintage guitar amplifiers or something, but what specifically functionality do you (and OP) miss about it?

[Fuzzwah]

The most complex thing I used pipes for was to pull in content from basically every site around the web that I have an account on and aggregate them on a blog of sorts.

The whole idea was that sites I use for things come and go. I could jump from service to service, update my pipes setup. If a site died I'd just find a replacement and move on. I always had all my content harvested and stored in my own db.

Examples;

* any youtube video I added to my favorites would be auto embedded on my blog

* posts on blogger, wordpress, etc all pull into the one place

* images fav'd on deviantart

* pages book marked using diigo

* photos saved to whatever photo site I was currently using

Here's a screenshot from a long time ago when I originally set it up (2009):

https://fuzzyslogicblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/a186d-pi...

[saola-app]

I'm glad to know there are folks of the same mind. It exposes saola.create and saola.append functions to create and append to a file.