Presence is officially public on IFTTT. That means the answer Presence already works out—whether someone is available, focused, busy, away, or in a live activity—can now help the rest of their tools respond.
This launch has been a lesson in the unglamorous part of building integrations: naming every ingredient carefully, testing OAuth redirects, repairing templates when platform fields change, and making sure the public listing says exactly what the product does.
Today, that work has a public home at ifttt.com/presence.
One final status, many possible next steps
IFTTT is a service that connects apps and devices through simple “if this, then that” automations. Presence supplies the “this”: a privacy-safe status change. The user chooses the “that.”
A status change can start a notification, update a communication tool, add a row to a spreadsheet, call a webhook, or connect to another supported service. Presence also includes actions that can set a temporary status or return it to Automatic.
Your status should be useful beyond the screen where you set it.
The privacy boundary stays small
Presence does not send IFTTT the calendar title, attendees, meeting link, caller, phone number, message, audio, video, document, or precise location behind a status. It sends the final simplified status and the limited display information needed for the automation the user authorized.
What it took to get here
The service passed IFTTT's product review, but the path to launch still had a few turns. Ingredient renames knocked Applet templates out of sync. The service ID changed so Presence could claim the clean public URL. That also changed the OAuth callback that the server needed to accept.
IFTTT's team helped identify and repair the template issue, preserved the service name, and cleared the way for the final launch. Then one last technical hiccup delayed the scheduled publication. Once that was resolved, Presence became publicly available.
This is the kind of connection Presence was built for
Presence already combines calendars, live meetings, calls, recording, Focus, working hours, locations, and manual choices into one understandable answer. IFTTT lets that answer travel farther without asking people to expose more of their day.
I am excited to see what people build with it.