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The Zapier Blog
Company blog · zapier.com/blog · on HN as bryanhproductivitybusiness
The Zapier Blog is the company blog at zapier.com, writing about productivity and business. Since 2011, 314 different Hacker News readers have linked it 565 times, most often “Zapier - Sync between your tools”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Zapier Blog for practical how-tos, such as adding custom Chrome search engines, blocking notifications, asynchronous remote work, and RSS readers. Many links point to Zapier's job and product pages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Build and scale AI workflows and agents across 9,000+ apps with Zapier—the most connected AI orchestration platform. Trusted by 3 million+ businesses.
Most-linked posts?
- Zapier - Sync between your tools22 people · 25 mentions · first linked 2011-11-25
- API Integration as a Service14 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2011-12-28
- Zapier MCP7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2025-03-24
- Zappy – Screen capture tool6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-04-08
- Guide to Remote Work6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2015-04-08
- Build Yourself a Redux4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-05-01
- Decreasing RAM Usage by 40% Using Jemalloc with Python (2017)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-01-03
- Guide to Remote Work4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-12-29
- The Remote Work Report by Zapier4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-11-13
- /jobs/3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-12-28
What Hacker News says?
Or you could just add a custom search keyword directly in your browser... https://zapier.com/blog/add-search-engine-to-chrome/ https://superuser.com/questions/7327/how-to-add-a-custom-sea...
Comment linking /blog/add-search-engine-to-chrome/
on “Google Search Is Dying”Submitted Guide to Remote Work as a story · 747 points
HN discussionI'm sure there are specifics for Gumroad, but there are lots of insights available via other remote companies: https://blog.doist.com/asynchronous-communication/ https://zapier.com/blog/how-to-work-asynchronously/ Basically instead of waiting for a meeting to communicate, just write it down and send it out, via Slack or whatever. People can consume it on their own time.
Comment linking /blog/how-to-work-asynchronously/
on “No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees”Submitted Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome as a story · 516 points
HN discussionSame in Chrome, it's great: https://zapier.com/blog/block-notifications-chrome/
Comment linking /blog/block-notifications-chrome/
on “I help seniors with technology issues”Submitted Build Yourself a Redux as a story · 395 points
HN discussionZapier has a published zap (I hate that name...) that supposedly does just that: https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/39/share-new-blog-posts-to-y... I offer no personal endorsement, and have no idea whether it would work for you.
Comment linking /zapbook/zaps/39/share-new-blog-posts-to-your-facebook-page/
on “My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT”Submitted De-Location Package: Keep Your Career and Live Beyond the Bay Area as a story · 327 points
HN discussionI recently used Zapier to integrate with a few APIs and the ability to plug in your own code ( https://zapier.com/help/create/code-webhooks/use-javascript-... ) was useful. And it was certainly less brain-demanding to deploy than something on a server I manage.
Comment linking /help/create/code-webhooks/use-javascript-code-in-zaps
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?”Submitted How to Hire and Build a Remote Team as a story · 251 points
HN discussionBackup everything elsewhere regularly https://zapier.com/apps/dropbox/integrations/google-drive
Comment linking /apps/dropbox/integrations/google-drive
on “Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1”Submitted The CTO Journey at a Small Startup as a story · 233 points
HN discussionYes: https://zapier.com/apps/stripe/integrations . Would suggest chatting with https://twitter.com/bentossell , who runs Makerpad (Zapier) and uses Payment Links!
Comment linking /apps/stripe/integrations
on “Stripe Payment Links”Submitted Zappy – Screen capture tool as a story · 222 points
HN discussionWell, I was trying to avoid the entire rant about using API Keys for security in the first place. https://zapier.com/engineering/apikey-oauth-jwt/ https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/openapi/when-why-api... We all have done it at one point or another. But if I am ever in the middle of a technical presentation and mention “API Keys”, I get all types of dirty looks from security. Notice that Square for instance st…
Comment linking /engineering/apikey-oauth-jwt/
on “Bitwarden raises $100M”Submitted You Are the Exception to the Rule as a story · 178 points
HN discussionI don't have anything myself but Zapier has this resource https://zapier.com/learn/remote-work/ They also have some remote work blog posts in their blog https://zapier.com/blog/
Comment linking /blog/
on “GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working from Home”Submitted Tools for Remote Software Development and Pair Programming as a story · 176 points
HN discussionCouldn't you do this with Chrome search engines? https://zapier.com/blog/add-search-engine-to-chrome/
Comment linking /blog/add-search-engine-to-chrome/
on “uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results”Submitted Debugging Python Like a Boss as a story · 168 points
HN discussionMost of these started as one off blog posts. After a while we built up enough chapters that it didn't seem like it would be that farfetched to make a book. So we filled in the gaps on some chapters that were missing and turned it into a book. The Zapier process is mostly outlined here: https://zapier.com/blog/how-to-publish-ebook/
Comment linking /blog/how-to-publish-ebook/
on “Guide to Remote Work”Submitted An Introduction to APIs as a story · 167 points
HN discussionHow about adding a direct link to the PDF (or any other single document that exists) on https://zapier.com/learn/the-ultimate-guide-to-remote-workin... ?
Comment linking /learn/the-ultimate-guide-to-remote-working/
on “Guide to Remote Work”Submitted Be Productive Anywhere: Strategies for Better Remote Work as a story · 151 points
HN discussionPDF: https://zapier.com/goto/?payload=.eJwdjUsOgzAQQ69SzboQKJQCl6...
on “Guide to Remote Work”Submitted 21 Months In: How to Manage a Remote Team as a story · 143 points
HN discussionYou can read it free here: https://zapier.com/learn/the-ultimate-guide-to-remote-workin... Can also get it on Amazon free here: https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Guide-Remote-Work-Manage-ebo... No email required.
Comment linking /learn/the-ultimate-guide-to-remote-working/
on “Guide to Remote Work”Submitted Show HN: Monitor the Downtime of 170+ Popular Web APIs as a story · 143 points
HN discussionSome remote jobs you could apply to right now: Automattic Happiness Engineer: https://automattic.com/work-with-us/#open-positions Zapier Support team: https://zapier.com/jobs/#job-openings To help you get a remote software development job, consider doing a remote, part-time bootcamp with an ISA (Income Share Agreement). That means you pay nothing until you're hired. Some options include: Lambda School: https://lambd…
Comment linking /jobs/
on “Ask HN: Advice for finding an entry-level remote job?”Submitted Free Dropbox Accounts Now Only Sync to Three Devices as a story · 140 points
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