The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 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. That way, every piece of feedback is looped into your product development cycle, aligning product features more closely with user needs.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. There's no one single best AP automation software.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier We really could have used RACI. And it plays nice with thousands of other apps. It emphasizes the leadership role while still keeping everyone else in the loop. Customize it for your project, assign roles, and let the workflow do the heavy lifting.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. By connecting your whole tech stack, you can go further by tailoring content to specific interests, products, or actions that happen in other apps.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

But that same high-functioning brain can backfire at night, when racing thoughts prevent rest, leading to a frustrating loop of fatigue and overperformance. Other times, it's reading a book or playing with dozens of apps to find the best one. Researching: Everything I write requires some form of research.

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The Zapier Blog

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 26, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier In the business world, this same kind of boundary-slipping shows up as scope creep—when a project quietly expands beyond the original plan, often without additional resources, timelines, or support. Keep everyone in the loop with regular updates.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier Even if the most meticulously laid plans are at the mercy of a capricious host with a skinny microphone, starting with a project plan template lays a foundation of order and direction in a world where the rules are made up and the points don't matter.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Agentic AI systems use an observe → plan → act → observe loop to handle open-ended objectives. Tools like Zapier make it possible to add AI to almost any service or workflow, so you can, for example, pull the power of ChatGPT into any of the other apps you use at work. It adapts as work unfolds, scaling impact across teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

We recently released the video sharing app Ferris and announced that Upfront Ventures led the funding in the company in our seed round of $2 million and I personally joined the board. We hit the top spot recommended on Apple’s iOS App Store on the day of the launch, which is a testament to the team and all of their hard work.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

Even the one time blogging platform of choice Wordpress can, without a lot of hassles, can be manipulated to be your entire site's content management system. If you've got an idea good enough to get accepted to Sprout Box, the team there will actually build your app. Are there not enough blogs out there about viral loops?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. In his blog posts & our in-person debates I find myself thinking 98% of the time – I agree with him or he’s got a more insightful perspective on this topic than I do. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 22, 2023

The distinction I like to make here is “Loops not Funnels”. (I The idea here is that instead of thinking about moving a user down a funnel, you need to think about the user journey as a continuous loop. There is a classic blog post written by Paul Graham called “Do Things That Don’t Scale”. Trust me; I’ve been there.

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Reforge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I still remember reading Eric Ries’ blog post that first coined the term “Lean Startup” in September 2008. For example, with my latest startup Notejoy , a collaborative notes app, the team didn’t leave virality to chance. This data content loop became a virtuous cycle for driving new users to Zillow’s service.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

With regular updates and features being added to most software, keeping everyone in the loop ensures you’re harnessing the full potential of your tech stack. Why let a convoluted website or app design stand in the way when you can offer an experience as smooth as strolling through a well-organized physical store?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

No doubt, the company’s discipline in closing the loop with employees every week has encouraged employees to submit the large number of useful suggestions Buuteeq receives through the tool. Atlassian, an Australian software company , created an internal app called MoodApp (great name!) and more articles from the EO blog. .

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Much of the mobile games industry has taken the tactic of soft launching seriously – in September alone, there were more than 100 games soft launched on the Apple App Store and over 600 on the Google Play Store. This blog post will explore what a soft launch is and why it can be beneficial for game studios.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

If Instagram’s photo tagging feature was spun out into its own app, you’d have the viral sensation Poparazzi , now the No. 1 app on the App Store. ” People’s real lives are made up of many unperfect moments that are worthy of being captured and shared, too, a company blog post explains.

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Campaign Monitor

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Or, you might use the newsletter content to tease a blog post outlining your company values. Images of your mobile app in action. Want to drive mobile app downloads? that shows off the functionality and beauty of your mobile app. . Partner mobile app reviews. A message from the CEO. Deals and discounts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

APIs help technology teams to build their apps their own way with predictable time and cost.” ” Prior to launching HyperTrack, Deorah co-founded blogging platform RightHalf.com and restaurant payments app Chalo (among other startups), which were acquired by Stratify and OpenTable, respectively.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 5, 2024

I wanted to start writing blog articles about management and leadership about 10 years back, but I never got to it. I still had multiple teams to coordinate and new products to ship while also landing a tech stack revamp and a new UI for the Fitbit App. This feedback loop is invaluable because, without it, you will not get better.

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Continuations

JANUARY 1, 2020

We need many shots on goal (separate blog post forthcoming). As for venture funds, there is tons to back and we are starting to do so at USV (blog post on that coming soon). UBI is no panacea but it breaks the job loop which currently has people trapped. Fund : If you have lots of money, invest in nuclear fusion now.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The idea was that websites (think news, blogs) could push out a regular “feed&# in an open, XML format that could be read by an RSS Reader otherwise known as a feed aggregator. I don’t have to remember to log in to everybody’s blogs – if I forget I see the best ones Tweeted and Retweeted on Twitter.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I published this on my own startups blog. So it's a recursive function to say, oh, well, if the New York Times links to you, that's much more valuable than if Dharmesh's blog links to you because New York Times has more page rank. Or even just read these blog posts and watch these videos. I'm making the number up.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

But the process of finding the right images to accompany your blog articles or social media posts can be time-consuming, frustrating, and even expensive. In this tutorial, we'll guide you through making a Zap—Zapier's automated workflows—to create stunning visuals for your blog articles. I called mine "Blog Images."

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 30, 2016

Looping Video Files. When Twitter launched Vine, the oddly addictive, seven-second video platform that loops ad infinitum, innovative users challenged themselves to make the most of the loop function to create a seamless replay. I’ll stick to my photos being photos, and my videos looping poorly. And Now, Cinemagraphs.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Zapier is the leader in no-code automation—integrating with 5,000+ apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. New users are looped into product training early on. Build secure, automated systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 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. These Zaps keep everyone in the loop—and no one has to be stuck refreshing a dashboard all day.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

You've got to get new orders out the door while also sending notifications, collecting customer data, and keeping your team in the loop. Instead of copying data between apps by hand or manually providing updates to your team, you can build automated workflows to handle the repetitive tasks. How does eCommerce automation work?

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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. At the point where you want to call your Sub-Zap, add an action step, choose Sub-Zap by Zapier as the app, and choose Call a Sub-Zap.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 2, 2025

If you run a successful online store, most of your daily work probably revolves around shipping orders, tracking inventory, and juggling different tools and apps. Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 22, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. It includes one planning table in Zapier Tables and one Zap (our word for automated workflows) that keep your team in the loop with automated Slack updates.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. These Zaps will send real-time notifications directly to the tools your team already lives in, like email or Slack , so everyone stays in the loop. Here are a few ways to get started.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

Looping by Zapier works the same way but for automated workflows. Ready to set up a loop step? Looping by Zapier is an advanced tool available on Professional plans and higher tiers. Looping by Zapier is an advanced tool available on Professional plans and higher tiers. Table of contents What is Looping by Zapier?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

Whether you're just getting started or ready to orchestrate full systems across apps, data and teams, here are five workflows that will transform your work. Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. SMS is also an option.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 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. Check out our guides for building loops and using AI by Zapier. We've got thousands of app connections and are always adding more.

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