The best thing Yahoo ever did was called Pipes, and needless to say the company starved and then killed it.

Read this superb history by @glennf to understand what we had, and lost.

https://retool.com/pipes

Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes

In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story.

@dangillmor @glennf
Truth. Pipes helped me find a great apartment when I needed one, by filtering and routing CL ads.