I'm still not using all the features haha! But I think the next big thing for me is automating things for my internal processes through an API. I use automation tools like make.com a lot for projects because they're quick and easy to work with. I would love to easily connect my Forem to other tools through such a solution.
What I like most about coding is how easy it is to learn from eachother and build on top of other people's work. I'm a big fan of open-source, no-code and low-code tools for these exact reasons. I find myself mostly working on snippets of code whenever I launch a project, because I'm reusing existing work all the time!
Glad to hear that the Forem features are serving ya well. 🙂
I really wanna hear how it goes on the automation front. I just checked out make.com and as a non-developer, the no-code side of the platform was super attractive... glad to hear that you're a fan of this kind of stuff.
I watched a quick video on make.com and honestly I'm pretty inspired. I wanna think of something interesting that I could automate so that I can try out the platform.
I'm thinking maybe it'd be cool to have a system for vetting folks who want to be trusted users or tag mods in the community. You could create a form for folks who want to be mods to fill out and perhaps when you sign off on their application, it would give them trusted user/tag moderator status and trigger a variety of emails to be sent to them or set up an interview with them through Calendly... haha, getting side-tracked, but there are some seriously cool possibilities here!
Anyway, I hope to hear more about what you come up with. If I follow through with creating something myself, I'll be sure to share.
Yes good idea. These tools do make everything simple and easy to evolve. The first step could be to have a forem instance send some data to a webhook on make.com (for example) and then you do the rest from there.
At a later stage it would be great to have a Forem integration so that there are triggers and actions related to a forem instance.
For example the automation is triggered when someone makes a post in tag X, and the action that follows is awarding a certain badge and sending a specific email.
If you want to check out other automation platforms, there is zapier.com which is simpler and n8n.io which is opensource. My personal preference goes to make.com (formerly called integromat) because it strikes a great balance of ease of use and flexibility + the free tier was 1000 automations/month ;)
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Wow! Loved reading your answers above and am really inspired by your mission at Development Hackers.
I got a couple questions for ya:
If there was one feature (skys the limit!) that you could add to Forem to improve Development Hackers what would it be?
What do you like most about coding?
Thanks Michael :)
Glad to hear that the Forem features are serving ya well. 🙂
I really wanna hear how it goes on the automation front. I just checked out make.com and as a non-developer, the no-code side of the platform was super attractive... glad to hear that you're a fan of this kind of stuff.
I watched a quick video on make.com and honestly I'm pretty inspired. I wanna think of something interesting that I could automate so that I can try out the platform.
I'm thinking maybe it'd be cool to have a system for vetting folks who want to be trusted users or tag mods in the community. You could create a form for folks who want to be mods to fill out and perhaps when you sign off on their application, it would give them trusted user/tag moderator status and trigger a variety of emails to be sent to them or set up an interview with them through Calendly... haha, getting side-tracked, but there are some seriously cool possibilities here!
Anyway, I hope to hear more about what you come up with. If I follow through with creating something myself, I'll be sure to share.
Yes good idea. These tools do make everything simple and easy to evolve. The first step could be to have a forem instance send some data to a webhook on make.com (for example) and then you do the rest from there.
At a later stage it would be great to have a Forem integration so that there are triggers and actions related to a forem instance.
For example the automation is triggered when someone makes a post in tag X, and the action that follows is awarding a certain badge and sending a specific email.
If you want to check out other automation platforms, there is zapier.com which is simpler and n8n.io which is opensource. My personal preference goes to make.com (formerly called integromat) because it strikes a great balance of ease of use and flexibility + the free tier was 1000 automations/month ;)