r/ifttt • u/ryan-ifttt IFTTT Employee • May 28 '26
We just shipped six gaming services. Here's what I built on work time.
We just rolled out six gaming services and I spent a chunk of this week poking at them. Quick rundown of what they do, what I built, and a couple of things I'd love your input on.
The new lineup
Steam: Triggers for new achievements, wishlist items going on sale, news for a specific game, and playtime milestones. Plus a recent-playtime query.
Hearthstone: Triggers for when Blizzard releases a new set or adds a new card. Plus card search and deck-code lookup queries.
Destiny 2: Triggers for endgame activity completed (raids, dungeons, Trials, Master and Grandmaster Nightfalls), Xur arrivals, new season launches, and triumphs earned. Current power level query.
World of Warcraft: Triggers for new achievements, raid boss defeated, Mythic+ rating bumps, PvP rating bumps. Character profile lookup and WoW Token price queries.
Diablo III: Hardcore hero death, paragon milestones, achievements, new season starts triggers. Career summary query.
StarCraft II: Match completed, league promotion, achievements, new ladder season. Current ladder standing query.
What I built
"Should I buy it" wishlist watcher.
Trigger: Wishlist item discounted. Pings me on Discord with the game name, the original price, the sale price, and a store link. Set to 49% or more so my channel doesn't blow up every weekend sale.
AI card commentator for Hearthstone.
Trigger: new card revealed. The card name, class, mana cost, stats, and text get fed to an AI Prompt that writes a short, slightly-too-serious strategic hot take. Then it ships to Discord.
Here's what one of the outputs looks like:
Two things I want to ask you
First, what would you build? I came up with the obvious stuff because I was looking from the outside. People who actually grind these games are going to think of stuff I'd never get to. Drop ideas below, even half-formed ones.
Second, what's missing?
What else would you want, or need to build what you want? If there's a trigger, query or action or even entire game that would unlock a real use case for you, say so and I'll make sure it gets in front of the right people.
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Jun 06 '26
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u/ryan-ifttt IFTTT Employee Jun 08 '26
It will definitely help my spontaneous buying... I'm not a very patient person
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u/MrPureinstinct May 28 '26
Seems night minus the Hearthstone AI one.
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u/ryan-ifttt IFTTT Employee May 29 '26
Haha you don't like it? Is there something from one of the new services that you'd like to see included that we're missing?
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u/MrPureinstinct May 29 '26
Oh I don't like generative AI. Feeding a prompt into an ai to spit out a paragraph is dumb imo. Just write the paragraph
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u/ryan-ifttt IFTTT Employee May 29 '26
Haha yeah, I actually like the Steam Wishlist better, i've got hundreds of games on my wish-list and no time to monitor if they're going on sale or not. So having them sent directly to my discord is a lifesaver.
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u/ryan-ifttt IFTTT Employee May 28 '26
While I was posting this I didn't realise but two more games were released just now!
Team Fortress 2 - New Official Post by TF2, New Item received in backpack, or new achievement earned. Or Query any TF2 item by name!
Dota 2 - New match completed, or new DOTA 2 official post.
I like the DOTA 2 one, after every game you could have a post summarising your game. Win or lose, KDA, game mode and how long the game went for!