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Jan Schenk (he/him)

Where to start ^^
I think the biggest shortcoming is currently that not every article triggers the zap, as the RSS feeds get updated unconditionally and might contain more than one new article per update. I ended up prioritising the lower-volume tag-specific feed over the general one, as I saw updates getting missed.
For the Zapier part, I wish I could do conditional steps and forking in the zaps, but I ended up with 2 zaps when my programmer's heart had wished for integrating these two into one single zap.
And well, I'd love to see some social analytics for dev.to. How often does Postman get mentioned, what's the trends in API articles, which articles perform well in terms of social interactions, which trend and should get priority attention from our team. But that's not to be accomplished by a zap, I guess. =)