IFTTT

IFTTT (, an acronym of if this, then that) is a private commercial company founded in 2011, that runs online digital automation platforms which it offers as a service. Their platforms provide a visual interface for making cross-platform if statements. , they have 18 million users. IFTTT has partnerships with different providers of everyday services as well as using public APIs to integrate them with each other through its platform. They supply event notifications to IFTTT and execute commands that implement the responses. History On December 14, 2010, Linden Tibbets, the co-founder of IFTTT, posted a blog post titled "ifttt the beginning..." on the IFTTT website, announcing the new project. The first IFTTT applications were designed and developed by Linden with co-founders Jesse Tane and Alexander Tibbets. The product was officially launched on September 7, 2011. By April 2012, users had created one million tasks. In June 2012, the service entered the internet of things space by integrating with Belkin Wemo devices, allowing applets to interact with the physical world. In July 2013, IFTTT released an iPhone app and later released a version for iPad and iPod touch. An Android version was launched in July 2014. By the end of 2014, the IFTTT business was valued at approximately US$170 million.