“But you could use Otter because Otter has a Zapier integration.”
Zapier
By Zapier, Inc.
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“in my discussions with them in our SEO experiments that we came up with”
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“lets you quickly build Zapier style automations”
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“all of the stuff that zappier has done with gpts is like the most useful stuff that you could imagine”
“zappier is a great great example I get a pitch from zappier every single year”
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