Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes

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Pipedream

#Automation #Web Service Automation #Workflow Automation 47 social mentions

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Val Town

If you're more handy with code, I'd also recommend checking out https://val.town which lets you quickly create automations and endpoints.

#Chatbots #Cloud Computing #Web App 6 social mentions

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Node-RED

I skipped to chapter 9 in the article ("Clogged"), and it looked like Pipes failed because it didn't have a large enough team or a well-defined mission. As a result they couldn't offer a super robust product that would lure in enterprise users. "You could not purchase some number of guaranteed-to-work Pipes calls per month" is the quote from the article. The reason I think that interesting is because that's the model these days for everything from AI tokens to Monday.com seats. It makes me feel like Pipes was before its time. That said I've been collecting different "business glue" products that are similar to Pipes. To me, like you say, they aren't as interesting, exciting and intuitive as Pipes was, but maybe it just takes a little more digging. I tried to focus on open source tools but some aren't. - n8n io: https://n8n.io/integrations/mondaycom/ - Node-RED: https://nodered.org/ (just read about this one in this thread) - trigger dev: trigger.dev - automatisch.io: https://automatisch.io/docs/ - Activepieces: https://www.activepieces.com/docs/getting-started/introduction - budibase: https://budibase.com/ - windmill: https://www.windmill.dev/ - Bracket: <a href="https://www.usebracket.com/pricing">https://www.usebracket.com/pricing</a> (just SalesForce <-> PostgreSQL) - Zapier: zapier.com/ Anyway I hope some of these are fun!

#DevOps Tools #Automation #API Tools 120 social mentions

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Huginn

I skipped to chapter 9 in the article ("Clogged"), and it looked like Pipes failed because it didn't have a large enough team or a well-defined mission. As a result they couldn't offer a super robust product that would lure in enterprise users. "You could not purchase some number of guaranteed-to-work Pipes calls per month" is the quote from the article. The reason I think that interesting is because that's the model these days for everything from AI tokens to Monday.com seats. It makes me feel like Pipes was before its time. That said I've been collecting different "business glue" products that are similar to Pipes. To me, like you say, they aren't as interesting, exciting and intuitive as Pipes was, but maybe it just takes a little more digging. I tried to focus on open source tools but some aren't. - n8n io: https://n8n.io/integrations/mondaycom/ - Node-RED: https://nodered.org/ (just read about this one in this thread) - trigger dev: trigger.dev - automatisch.io: https://automatisch.io/docs/ - Activepieces: https://www.activepieces.com/docs/getting-started/introduction - budibase: https://budibase.com/ - windmill: https://www.windmill.dev/ - Bracket: <a href="https://www.usebracket.com/pricing">https://www.usebracket.com/pricing</a> (just SalesForce <-> PostgreSQL) - Zapier: zapier.com/ Anyway I hope some of these are fun!

#Automation #Web Service Automation #API Tools 65 social mentions

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Budibase

I skipped to chapter 9 in the article ("Clogged"), and it looked like Pipes failed because it didn't have a large enough team or a well-defined mission. As a result they couldn't offer a super robust product that would lure in enterprise users. "You could not purchase some number of guaranteed-to-work Pipes calls per month" is the quote from the article. The reason I think that interesting is because that's the model these days for everything from AI tokens to Monday.com seats. It makes me feel like Pipes was before its time. That said I've been collecting different "business glue" products that are similar to Pipes. To me, like you say, they aren't as interesting, exciting and intuitive as Pipes was, but maybe it just takes a little more digging. I tried to focus on open source tools but some aren't. - n8n io: https://n8n.io/integrations/mondaycom/ - Node-RED: https://nodered.org/ (just read about this one in this thread) - trigger dev: trigger.dev - automatisch.io: https://automatisch.io/docs/ - Activepieces: https://www.activepieces.com/docs/getting-started/introduction - budibase: https://budibase.com/ - windmill: https://www.windmill.dev/ - Bracket: <a href="https://www.usebracket.com/pricing">https://www.usebracket.com/pricing</a> (just SalesForce <-> PostgreSQL) - Zapier: zapier.com/ Anyway I hope some of these are fun!

#Web App Builders #Web Frameworks #PaaS 59 social mentions

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Origami Studio

Another amazing node-based app that was deprecated is Quartz Composer on Mac. It was extended by Mike Matas when he was at Facebook: https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass/introducing-origami-for-quartz-composer-f1173d0bd181 although this was also later deprecated in favor of Origami Studio, which retains the node-based UI: https://origami.design/.

#Prototyping #Website Design #Design Prototyping 6 social mentions

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windmill.dev

#Automation #DevOps Tools #DevOps Automation 8 social mentions