What two applications do you most wish were integrated?

Question

This HN post on unbundling Zapier has gotten me thinking about software integrations and whether Zapier is "good enough": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23126455Curious to know what two applications you most want integrated, and why the Zapier integration is not good enough?

behnamoh · Accepted Answer

Evernote + a Markdown Editor + Weblog Post Publisher
There's Marxico that does the first two, but it's paid. On top of Evernote, you'd have to pay $16 a year just to be able to write in markdown.
It'd be nice to be able to jot down your thoughts in the editor, sync it with an Evernote notebook - specifically selected for weblog posts - and see your post appear on your blog.

dhruvkar · Answer

In my industry (construction wholesale), there's a whole lot of systems that:
- don't have APIs
- have partial APIs (e.g. ask the company if they have an API and they send a PDF of a rough incomplete API they use internally and tell you that it can be used with basic auth and can change at anytime with no warning)
- undocumented APIs
Zapier probably doesn't even have these systems on it's radar but APIs and connectivity are sorely needed.

ken · Answer

Applications, or services? Zapier is just for services, right?
The whole question sounds wrong to me. It’s like asking “Which two programs do you want to be able to pipe between?” All of them!
If you’re defining “integration” in a way that one program only works with one other program, that’s part of the problem.

chacha2 · Answer

Guix + Git + Dat + Syncthing

qubex · Answer

Spreadsheets & Databases

jamieweb · Answer

Slack and Trello.I'd love to be able to have a '#trello' channel where I can see my full board without having to leave the Slack interface.

zzo38computer · Answer

SQLite virtual tables with remote data services.NNTP with other discussion forums.

jordiburgos · Answer

Visual Studio Code + GitExtensions

throwfarandwide · Answer

NLS & Sketchpad

sidntrivedi · Answer

Trello + Todoist

What two applications do you most wish were integrated?

This HN post on unbundling Zapier has gotten me thinking about software integrations and whether Zapier is "good enough": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23126455
Curious to know what two applications you most want integrated, and why the Zapier integration is not good enough?

Guix + Git + Dat + Syncthing

Spreadsheets & Databases

Slack and Trello.
I'd love to be able to have a '#trello' channel where I can see my full board without having to leave the Slack interface.

SQLite virtual tables with remote data services.
NNTP with other discussion forums.

Visual Studio Code + GitExtensions

NLS & Sketchpad

Trello + Todoist