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Hoist hunted 2 years has pivoted to a microservice platform that talks to API's. Trigger code when events happen in your favorite web services.
Seamlessly connect to your favorite data sources and Hoist will watch them in the background. When something happens in your data sources, Hoist runs an event. You choose which events you want watch by selecting them from the 'trigger' menu.
@kwdinc Hi Kevin, Thanks for submitting us on Product Hunt. I’m Jamie the CEO of Hoist. We’ve recently launched the platform into Open Beta so we’d love as much feedback from people as possible. Sign up have a go and be sure to tell us what you think!
Jeez, been waiting for something like this for a while. I used to kinda rig IFTTT to route through WordPress, but that was a real chore.
@blake We're keeping on top of it, and it’s been a while since we’ve had issues, so if you’re still experiencing downtime please feel free to ping me here or at jamie@hoist.io
@_jamiewilson I'm still experiencing issues -- getting a 501 whenever I try to login.
I did an internship with them last summer, and can personally vouch for the quality of their product. Super professional and dedicated team. If you have any api problems, I highly suggest getting in contact with them :)
A friend saw it as referent to this automation tool from Github - https://hubot.github.com? What are the main differences?
@idmtr Hi Dimitar. Hubot is a great bot script that works by listening to chat rooms and parsing messages. Hoist could be used to build a hubot style application, but it's powers are different. Unlike a chatbot, Hoist can be plugged into all sorts of events (we're building more connectors all the time) so you can code actions when a change is made in a GitHub repository, or when someone mentions you on Twitter and then use that event to trigger an action in another service. So Hoist is focused on event triggered code modules from APIs rather than monitoring a single channel for key words. Also Hoist is fully managed and hosted so there's no need to find another service to host your code. it lives and runs right on the Hoist platform itself
Great reply@buildmaster! Thanks for clearing this out. Now the trouble is that I see too many applications of this, so where do I start humm humm, head scratch:) Thanks!
Great to see Hoist getting some exposure. I've been following along since the beginning and really excited to see where this will go! Great work :)
Looks awesome. This feels like a nice tool to build "Buffer for Product Hunt", maybe? A simple tool to schedule to post a product tomorrow morning.
Looking forward to using it on an upcoming project! Seems like a really powerful tool
This looks great, I can think of at least 2 or 3 services & data sources off the top of my head that would be perfect for an integration with this service. This seems like it solves the problem of needing to build infrastructure around simple trigger based scripts.
This looks really interesting! Seems like a happy marriage between IFTTT and Amazon Lambda. What triggers do you support currently out of the box? I guess adding new triggers as a user would be done using webhooks?
@akupila We currently support triggers from Github, Twitter, Slack, Highrise and Xero and let you read and write from a few other data sources. Data sources can either be added via webhooks or by creating a connector - our framework for data sources is open source (see the twitter connector here: github.com/hoist/hoist-connector-twitter), but we expect we'll be building most of the popular ones ourselves.
There website is down so I couldn't go through much details. I guess product hunt needs a cleanup
Pros:I wish I could be able to find.
Cons:Nothing yet
Is Hoist still in business? – Side is unreachable. No tweets for 2 years on the corporate account.
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