True, IFTTT recipes are often too limited, because targeting non developers, they limit a lot inputs and ouputs of APIs.
But all these APIs can do lot more.
The reason why there we made webshell.io , "IFTTT for developers", enabling developers to script APIs in Javascript, with the whole expressivity of a a scripting language for more advanced APIs scripts(recipes) :)
The only recipe I have on IFTTT is one that watches their own Twitter stream and shoots me an email whenever they talk about new channels ;) For now, it's way too limited.
If you are in the Bay Area, finding housing can be a pain and the key is to e-mail a listing immediately after its posted so you can skip the open house and view it privately.
I was a HUGE user of the 'Favorite tweet' -> 'Send Link to Readability' which allowed me to queue up a reading list before hopping on the subway in the morning.
Unfortunately, the Twitter Favorite hook has been discontinued and now I read more books on my kindle :(
I'm using a dumb phone with perpetual battery life. I use IFTTT to send me texts 15 min ahead of my outlook calendar appointments. I also text notes to their number which push to my Evernote. I also had all a close friends tweets sent to my email since I don't really use twitter, but I turned that off eventually.
