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IFTTT is the main subject, discussed as a platform for building IoT connectors and recipes. observed
No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.
The inclusion bar: two or more independent sourced evidence families. This profile is published and listed. It is a statement about how much evidence we hold, and about nothing else.
We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.
No standout signal or flag yet.
The skeptic's read what this company has said, judged against what happened
Sharpest miss on record: “Every Amazon Alexa user will also have an IFTTT account.” — Only a minority of Amazon Alexa users have IFTTT accounts; the claim that every Alexa user would also have an IFTTT account is untrue.
Unproven ≠ false — it means the deadline or the evidence hasn't arrived. Nothing here is editorial: every count is a ledger row you can open on the Proof page.
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Gray-market attention, not quality. 50+ HN mentions (peak 1236 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: heavy gray-market attention. ▲ 1236 My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT 2016-03-28 ↗
| Attribute | Value | Kind | Source | Observed | State | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
common_name | IFTTT | observed | intelligence.claims | 2026-10-01 | normalized | 0.90 |
community.hn.max_points | 1236 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-09-26 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.mentions | 50 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-09-26 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4656939", "title": "Why Marissa Mayer should acquire IFTTT and go all in on Yahoo Pipes", "points": 121, "created_at": "2012-10-15", "evidence_type": "ru | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-04-16 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4656939", "title": "Why Marissa Mayer should acquire IFTTT and go all in on Yahoo Pipes", "points": 121, "created_at": "2012-10-15", "evidence_type": "ru | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-04-16 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4656939", "title": "Why Marissa Mayer should acquire IFTTT and go all in on Yahoo Pipes", "points": 121, "created_at": "2012-10-15", "evidence_type": "ru | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-04-16 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11378278", "title": "My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT", "points": 1236, "created_at": "2016-03-28"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2016-03-28 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11378278", "title": "My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT", "points": 1236, "created_at": "2016-03-28"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2016-03-28 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11378278", "title": "My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT", "points": 1236, "created_at": "2016-03-28"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2016-03-28 | normalized | 0.20 |
description | IFTTT is the main subject, discussed as a platform for building IoT connectors and recipes. | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-09 | normalized | 0.60 |
sector | emerging | derived | calc | 2026-09-28 | normalized | 0.50 |
signal.attributed_claims | 3 | observed | intelligence.claims | 2026-09-26 | parsed | 0.90 |