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by nlitened 1415 days ago
Sure.

I use Make.com (former Integromat) for many automations for my small business, and while quite handy, the automations are cumbersome to edit and very limited. Pretty often I have to resort to something dumb like composing a complex JSON by hand or using a third-party web-service token just to unzip a file. Sometimes I rage too much, wanting to rewrite the whole script of visual blocks in four simple lines of Clojure, but the complexity of deploying that four-lines webhook (or scheduled task) online cools me down pretty quickly, and I just give up.

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Thanks for sharing!

The no-code approach taken by these automation apps (Make, Zapier..) makes them super accessible, but i agree, when any kind of business logic is involved nothing beats a few lines of code.

You could setup a Chunk as only one "step" of a Make/Zapier workflow. Giving you code-control only where you need it.

We could probably make that even easier by building integration for Make and Zapier.