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by idlewords 4306 days ago
I don't know, sync seems to me to be one of the canonical Big Problems of computing.

But I don't want anyone to think I'm belittling what IFTTT does, or calling the problem trivial. I wouldn't care if they didn't provide a genuinely useful service. This type of thing just seems poorly served by the startup model of grandiose dreams combined with 95%+ chance of failure.