The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

I used to work at a children's shoe store, and we kept all our customer information on index cards (.yeah). I tested both apps to see how their features compare and what teams they're best for. Having said that, there's a lot of overlapping functionality, so I dove in to see how they compare.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

I once viewed "process documentation" as corporate torture. And then I tried onboarding a new teammate while on holiday; my "clear" instructions unleashed a flood of confused Slack messages. How is a visual workflow different from a normal workflow? How is a visual workflow different from a normal workflow?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

You're launching campaigns, closing deals, onboarding customers—and trying to keep up with everything in between. Suddenly, every process has a hundred steps, five tools, and a dozen people involved. Enterprise automation is the practice of using technology to connect processes and software across large, complex organizations.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

Sure, they use different models under the hood, but whether you're using ChatGPT , Meta AI , or Google Gemini , the experience is pretty similar. So how does this compare to ChatGPT, which has also been held up as a possible replacement for search engines? And most importantly, whether you should use Perplexity or ChatGPT.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

I've been covering AI developments for almost a decade now, and the idea of AI tools that can be trusted to operate independently has always been exciting—and just out of reach. Agentic AI is the latest attempt to create a framework for what these tools would look like and how they could safely operate.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Since I started using WordPress almost a decade ago, I've used various plugins to create forms. After much trial and error, I eventually settled on WPForms, but there are literally hundreds more form plugins to choose from. Here, I've focused on the best premium form plugins for WordPress.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 21, 2025

I was great at saving my money. I knew that most of my income would come from birthdays and Christmases, so I'd actually plot out in a notebook how much money I thought I'd have one, two, or even three years from now. These are three of the most popular options, broken down by their main use cases.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

I've been writing about AI since before most people knew what it stood for, and still, barely a week goes by where I don't have to look up some new term or technical topic. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Before you know it, you're ordering three extra pizzas and wondering how a cozy evening ballooned into a 15-person rager that would make the Fyre Festival organizers say, "Wow, that got out of hand." And if you haven't, congratulations on having boundaries, I guess? " We've all been there.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Web design isn't what it used to be. In 2003, I spent weeks hand-coding an HTML website. In 2016, I spent days designing a client's website in WordPress. Last weekend, I spent 60 seconds watching an AI tool create a website for me. To test them, I created multiple websites using each tool.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 23, 2025

I was in the room at Microsoft's Copilot launch event in New York City in 2023, where Satya Nadella pitched a vision of Copilot across all Microsoft's apps and services. Under the hood, it uses OpenAI's AI models —the same ones that power ChatGPT. Who can use Copilot in Excel?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Think how much faster you will be able to go, and therefore have more runway to iterate to product-market fit. As a serial technical founder, I often get approached for co-founder opportunities. How can you validate your idea? No-code or low-code tools have come on leaps and bounds in recent years (such as Bubble.io).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

It’s just weird enough that it’s the kind of thing I completely love. In addition, you need to develop a wide set of sills that are not writing code, but just as important. At their “new workplace”, engineers go on quests that challenge them to navigate complex life-like scenarios while utilizing real tools and technologies.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

It's been launching AI offerings for every major category (think Firebase Studio for vibe coding), and Veo is its answer to AI-generated videos. After spending time testing it myself, I can say it's a significant leap forward—though it still has plenty of quirks as this technology finds its footing.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

But supporting 1,500 real estate agents across 20 offices in Oregon and Southwest Washington requires more than just market know-how, it demands operational precision. Here’s how it works: An agent submits a request via a form in PPG’s Blink platform. Code by Zapier customizes social media icons and formats the agent’s name.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

It’s able to write essays, code and more given short text prompts , hyper-charging productivity. In any case, AI tools are not going away — and indeed has expanded dramatically since its launch just a few months ago. Turbo With fine-tuning, companies using GPT-3.5 But it also has a more… nefarious side.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

I discovered that resilience is not just about overcoming obstacles; it’s about adapting, learning, and empathizing with our clients’ unique needs. Ask yourself, “What’s the worst that could happen if you launch that new website and it’s not absolutely perfect?” But so can men. No one is perfect.

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Feedough

MARCH 18, 2021

It all stems from ‘I wish I had an app or a platform for…’. The tool enables decision-makers, managers, engineering teams, and business analysts to quickly and effortlessly create interactive prototypes for web and mobile apps without all the noise and complexity of traditional design software. Welcome, Uizard.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

By one metric , ChatGPT is the fastest-growing app in the world, having reached 100 million users within the first two months of launch. Associating with an app that visible, particularly one that’s in the red-hot generative AI space, is bound to get attention — a fact to which this article is a testament.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The entrepreneur’s comments underscore how some of edtech’s boldest and well capitalized companies are struggling. I understood that our growth would slow down once learners were able to be back in school full time; however I didn’t anticipate that our growth would slow as dramatically as it has,” Nathoo wrote in the e-mail.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 24, 2011

That's something I learned at Path 101. I thought it was going to be easy to find two developers, given that I had a pretty large network. What I soon realized was that once you start applying filters for qualifications, experience, interest, culture fit, timing, you don't know nearly as many people as you think you do.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

Remember when Apple launched the App Store and the early novelty of app discovery? Oh, how naive we were. 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. You can connect to Zapier through our built-in tool.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

That's where free website builders come in: these tools make it easy to build a website for free. These apps do the heavy lifting: you don't need to know what CSS is or how to tinker with HTML. I spent a few weeks testing all the free website builders I could find, and these are the seven best.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

It's a relatively new email marketing service provider (launched in 2019) built for creators, by creators. It's a relatively new email marketing service provider (launched in 2019) built for creators, by creators. For this article, I signed up for and tested each platform. Here's my verdict.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 27, 2023

From slow loading times to trailing slashes, here are 21 answers to the question, “What are the most common SEO errors in an e-commerce website and how do you fix them?” For example, removing unnecessary files, removing unnecessary code from your websites, and reducing the size of images are ways to fix a slow loading time.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

We independently review every app we recommend in our best apps lists. Even with the best tools, it takes a few hours to put together something good. Even with the best tools, it takes a few hours to put together something good. I refuse to accept that the AI-generated stock text is appropriate for a legitimate website.)

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

While both are eCommerce-focused email marketing apps that integrate tightly with Shopify , that's where the similarities end. tinyEmail launched a few years ago and is mainly known for its free Shopify app; Klaviyo was launched in 2012 and is now a publicly-traded company worth billions of dollars.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Connect Discord to your other apps Automate Discord But there are ways to bring some structure to your server. Use Discord's Scheduled Events feature 🎮 Best for simpler events and Discord-native scheduling Discord's built-in Scheduled Events feature is like placing a signpost in the middle of your Minecraft village.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Sometimes I get disappointed that we aren't already living in the future that was promised to us by movies and TV shows like The Jetsons or Back to the Future Part II. It's a tool that helps anyone connect apps and automate workflows—without any complicated code. New to Zapier? Sign up for free.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this interview, Vikrum tells us what he found most valuable about his YC experience, how to build successful developer tools, and why Gold Fig is going to put an end to embarrassing and costly configuration changes, once and for all. There’s so much I got to build, it was incredible. It’s really endearing.

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