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by vinchuco 3753 days ago
Will it include programming structures (loops, conditionals, etc) and documentation (i.e. @prompt help @prompt)?

Would then also need to handle 'weird' cases that can dos a service, such as the silly: @uber While True { from x to y; cancel;}

Could services be compounded? What if I want my domino's pizza delivered to a location, picked up by an uber and delivered to my work address? (maybe dominos doesn't service my area but I have a vitamin p deficiency)

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Don't forget the great fun to be had with out-of-order SMS messages. I really don't get this app. All the macros advertised in the article are so basic I can do (or already do) them via voice activation, which is so quick I don't even need to grab and turn on my phone's display. For more interesting stuff I want to have block diagrams for flows and triggers (kind of like the Automate app actually). Another downside is the likely closed or at least very opaque nature of the commands. Dominoes is gross, I want anything else. No one wrote a plugin for Papa Johns, and I don't know how or it would take forever, and even if the Dominoes plugin was open source I doubt it would be very enlightening for writing one for another pizza place. Guess I'll go hungry. Or, how about something as dead-simple as recording a workflow with hooks for interaction like password entry so that I do it once myself and then afterwards it replays it, even alerting me if during a future replay things aren't as expected? That might not be allowed on the app store though, because god forbid our phones be general purpose computational devices.