Switching automation providers

Yesterday I posted about setting up Zapier to automate posting to my LinkedIn profile whenever I create a new post here.

I've since looked into alternatives and have moved from Zapier to Make.

Why switch? Simple: Make is free.

Well, okay that may overstate the case. It offers a free tier, which allows 1000 interactions per month. Zapier has no free tier, just a free trial. For me, 1000 interactions a month is well above my needs, so it's a good fit.

Downsides: Zapier seems to have a really nice event-driven thing happening where my posts get migrated more or less immediately. With Make, I have to schedule it. So I've got it checking 4 times a day at the moment, which means I'll have to remember to look out for this post later today to be sure it's working as expected. I can run it manually and that works, so I'm optimistic.

I could tighten up that schedule (the default is 15 minutes) but I don't think I need it polling my RSS feed 48 times a day. Maybe this will leave me room to explore other automatable tasks.

Anyway, little by little, adding value to this page. Here's hoping this goes off without a hitch.