Blockspring Scripts
Dev tools
serverless add-on builder
SHOW HN2017
Blockspring Scripts
Serverless Scripting for GitHub, Asana, Airtable, and more
scripts.blockspring.comHow HN took it
1 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.
Privacy: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for API add-on development and Greasemonkey-like tweaks
From 1 comment
Seems mostly like greasemonkey, yeah
33degrees on HN
Objections
Security and data privacy concerns about access to app data
From 2 comments
What are the security risks of using a tool like this? How do I know that you're not secretly siphoning off the data from these apps?
hnrodey on HNI’d like to know this as well. Thank you.
andrei_says_ on HN
Marketing sounds like Zapier-style workflows, unclear positioning
From 1 comment
>less like Zapier in that it's for building add-ons instead of event pipelines Hmm. I'd gotten that impression because of these excerpts from your site: "When someone stars your…
tyingq on HN
Requests
LinkedIn support
From 1 comment
Started playing with it, need to find a good use case. Maybe something like: - when a trello card is due send me a message on Facebook to tell me to stop watching memes. - when…
orliesaurus on HN
Better fit with Gmail through an SDK or Gmail add-on
From 2 comments
Seems like you rely on the chrome extension to initiate the script? I.e. for the mail merge from airtable, you figure out which page the users is on to know which table to merge…
alooPotato on HNUnfortuantely it might be difficult to convince Google to include your script inside their apps :) Other than our InboxSDK, you could also look into building a gmail addon and…
alooPotato on HN
Questions
What are the security risks and how is user data protected
From 2 comments
What are the security risks of using a tool like this? How do I know that you're not secretly siphoning off the data from these apps?
hnrodey on HNI’d like to know this as well. Thank you.
andrei_says_ on HN
What is the pricing
From 1 comment
Any pricing info? couldn't find it on the scripts side, and neither on the main site...
gingerlime on HN
Alternatives named
Zapier and IFTTT
From 2 comments
Trying to understand the concept here. It feels sort of like ifttt or zapier. But different, because the "UI" for creating integrations is spread out on to the 3rd party sites…
tyingq on HNThis is for building add-ons for GitHub, Asana, Trello, Airtable, Pivotal Tracker, and other productivity apps. And they don't break because they cleanly use that app's API. The…
hackerews on HN
Greasemonkey
From 1 comment
Seems mostly like greasemonkey, yeah
33degrees on HN
Google Apps Script
From 1 comment
This is for building add-ons for GitHub, Asana, Trello, Airtable, Pivotal Tracker, and other productivity apps. And they don't break because they cleanly use that app's API. The…
hackerews on HN