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JUNE 4, 2025

It's a smarter, faster way to set up employees with all the apps, permissions, and hardware they need before they even figure out where the bathroom is. Automated provisioning is a system of automatically preparing IT resources (like devices, apps, and user permissions) based on an employee's role, department, and seniority.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Imagine an AI email app that automatically screens your incoming emails. There could well be an AI agent using a large language model (LLM) to determine where to sort your email, or it could just be some Gmail filters. Is that an agentic AI system, an AI email agent, or just a fancy set of filters?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

APIs also perform a lot of the heavy lifting for programming new apps. Getting started with APIs How to use an API How to connect an app to an API REST vs. GraphQL vs. SOAP APIs Types of APIs Why use an API? Connect apps without coding using Zapier API FAQ What is an API? Think about your favorite weather app.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 8, 2025

Zoom has cemented its status as the default video conferencing app, no matter if you're working remotely full time or just hop on an occasional video call. Zapier is a no-code automation tool that lets you connect your apps into automated workflows, so that every person and every business can move forward at growth speed.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

I spent a bunch of time in each of these apps, and here's how the Airtable vs. Google Sheets showdown went. Though both can do many similar things, Airtable is a database app and Google Sheets is a spreadsheet app. But not a lot else. Unless you're really , really , really into it.)

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

I use some of these apps daily as a prompt to make my writing more concise and, hopefully, more enjoyable. I considered dozens of apps and did in-depth testing on the top contenders to narrow it down to these six apps. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier That's what project management templates are to project managers: replicable systems of organization that keep everything efficiently structured. And it plays nice with thousands of other apps. Try the template 2. Try the template 3.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I use Superhuman , an email app which speeds up my email processing, and also gives me background information on all of my correspondents. See their blog post on multiples.). That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I use Superhuman , an email app which speeds up my email processing, and also gives me background information on all of my correspondents. See their blog post on multiples.). That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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Y Combinator

MAY 15, 2019

The Chinese podcasting app. They don’t live in one app, they don’t live, no one uses the internet by pulling up 500 different websites and different browser tabs. Just literally make your first post and then tell people about it and add your mom and a few other people from your Gmail contacts into your list and just go.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

While email services haven't changed a lot over the past two decades, email apps keep getting better. There are some great native Mac email apps that make the whole experience better and more Mac-like. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

CEO Dave Rogenmoser tells TechCrunch the funding will be put toward building out Jasper’s core products, improving the customer experience and bringing Jasper’s technology to more apps. Jasper leverages AI to generate content for blog articles, social media posts, website copy and more. ” Image Credits: Jasper.

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Campaign Monitor

APRIL 27, 2022

First things first: Don’t try to send your newsletter manually using Gmail, Outlook, or any other standard email service provider. You’ll run into similar restraints with any app that’s not dedicated to email campaigns. A CTA , whether you want readers to click through to your blog, send feedback, or engage in some other way.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

ChatGPT is an app created by OpenAI that lets users interact with its AI models: GPT-3 (on the free version) and GPT-4 (in early access for paid users). The app takes the prompts you write and passes them to the AI model. Most of the apps on this list are also powered by OpenAI's GPT models. Chat experience. Extra features.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We also wanted tight integration with our email client (Superhuman (best) or Gmail , including pixel tracking of when emails were opened. 3) Email-focused CRMs : Streak and Copper do the best job of keeping the entire experience within the Gmail inbox. Salesforce offers Pardot, a company they acquired. . A number of players (e.g.,

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

You could tell them how long you've followed their work, what you enjoyed about the last blog post they wrote, or how their product might be improved—with tact of course! It's much like writing a compelling headline for an article or blog post that you want people to click on. For your email to be read, it has to be opened.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Or write an email with GPT-3 —then send it via Gmail. Leap AI Leap AI is an artificial intelligence platform that lets users add AI features to their apps. The app's aim is to let users build next-generation apps with image, text, video, and audio AI.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

If you find that the tool itself isn't quite right for you, don't write off the intention behind the app—keep searching till you find the one that works for you. Source: Expandi In a post on Expandi's blog, Ilya Azovtsev shares a detailed how-to for using the add-on.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. He is both.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

.&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. In addition they are a platform (the OS part) where they’re encouraging developers to build third party apps on their platform. It has some similarities with Brizzly in this regard.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

Explore now The Zapier ChatGPT plugin lets you connect thousands of apps (like Google Sheets, Gmail, or Slack) and automate tasks directly inside ChatGPT. This saves you the time and hassle of context switching, as you can just ask ChatGPT to perform a task in another app for you. No unnecessary writing needed from you.)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

By far the most extensible of the bunch, Zapier connects with apps like Google Sheets, Trello and Gmail to trigger a range of productivity tasks. “We’re working to develop plugins and bring them to a broader audience,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

Remember when Apple launched the App Store and the early novelty of app discovery? Now we roll our eyes whenever a product requires an app download because it just adds to the landscape of apps that don't talk to each other. Does your app have an email integration? Can your app use webhooks?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A Y Combinator-backed app called Needl is helping users with that. Needl is a cross-platform application that lets you search across your local file system and accounts like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Notion and Slack. Users can customize shortcuts to launch the app and jump to the home view. Image Credits: Needl.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

That's why, at first, I wasn't sure if I had the technical savvy to try out Leap AI , a nifty image-generation tool that works on JavaScript and that folks can integrate into their own apps. The main difference between those apps and Leap AI are the models. directly in any browser first. Design products.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

We now know that the medium has changed the news industry leading to blogs, real-time reporting, integration of text and video, two-way discussions, stories surfaced based on what your friends are reading, etc. Many of my daily deal email offers get auto-sorted in Gmail and I never see them. The Impact of Mobile Phones on Advertising.

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Campaign Monitor

MARCH 15, 2022

Just like with your other email campaigns, you want to invoke some type of emotion in your subscribers when they see that Gmail notification. Finding the ideal subject line length is tricky, but when it comes to survey email subject lines, we’d recommend keeping them short so they fit into app notifications.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

And I helped him set up his blog, and I remember he wrote his first blog article. ” That was the early days of HubSpot, not only helping people set their blog up, but actually posting it and editing it. Use our template, put your blog out and put your site, you’re going to be happy. We lost that battle.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 16, 2025

Instead, you can build a workflow that automatically forwards your incoming Gmail messages to any Slack channel you choose. Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Connect your Gmail account, then click Continue. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. We'll use Email Parser by Zapier , which connects securely to hundreds of AI tools and thousands of other apps in our app directory. Think about how you read emails.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

You can start by automating individual tasks with simple workflows—what we call Zaps—and grow into orchestrating entire systems across apps, teams, and data. Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. That's where Zapier comes in.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

What you can do with Sub-Zaps How to get started with Sub-Zaps Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. The parent Zap continues, sending a welcome email to the new hire through Gmail with sales-related first-day instructions.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

For Google Workspace users who don't want to hop in and out of their Google apps and customer relationship manager (CRM), there's Copper. This CRM is built to work right inside Gmail, Calendar, and Google Drive, so your team can manage deals without wasting time switching tabs. Read our guide to using Copilot.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

AI writing generators once seemed like they were going to be the next big enterprise app category, but in reality, text generation is now more of a feature than a standalone business. Instead, there are thousands of apps that can generate anything from a text message to an email to a blog post to a white paper.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Use interfaces, data tables, and logic to build secure, automated, AI-powered systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier. Automatically keep Glean up to date Glean searches are only useful if the app has access to your team's latest work.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 21, 2025

Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. With these Zaps, Chatbase will generate a response to each new email you receive in Gmail or Outlook then send it automatically or save it as a draft in your email folder. Here's how. New to Zapier?

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