Why we built this:
- We found current workflow / automation tools like Zapier and n8n are good for simple tasks, but not for more advanced use cases.
- Dropping down into code in these tools is just not a great experience. We prefer using our own IDEs, version control, and having access to GitHub Copilot etc.
- Sometimes, a workflow requires us to query a database or handle some sensitive information. It would be great if this data wasn\u2019t sent to a third party.
Our beta version lets you:
- Trigger workflows from webhooks, custom events or schedules (CRON)
- Use API integrations with Slack, GitHub, Shopify and Resend. We\u2019re adding more of these each week.
- Add delays of up to 1 year. Workflows will resume where they left off, even if your server has gone down.
- Support for Fetch and subscribing to generic webhooks.
- Observe every workflow run in the app (great for debugging).
- Open source MIT license so anyone can self-host the platform.
We\u2019re still early so would love your feedback and opinions. Feel free to try us out for free \u2013 and if you want a specific API integrated, just let us know.
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Why we built this:
- We found current workflow / automation tools like Zapier and n8n are good for simple tasks, but not for more advanced use cases.
- Dropping down into code in these tools is just not a great experience. We prefer using our own IDEs, version control, and having access to GitHub Copilot etc.
- Sometimes, a workflow requires us to query a database or handle some sensitive information. It would be great if this data wasn\u2019t sent to a third party.
Our beta version lets you:
- Trigger workflows from webhooks, custom events or schedules (CRON)
- Use API integrations with Slack, GitHub, Shopify and Resend. We\u2019re adding more of these each week.
- Add delays of up to 1 year. Workflows will resume where they left off, even if your server has gone down.
- Support for Fetch and subscribing to generic webhooks.
- Observe every workflow run in the app (great for debugging).
- Open source MIT license so anyone can self-host the platform.
We\u2019re still early so would love your feedback and opinions. Feel free to try us out for free \u2013 and if you want a specific API integrated, just let us know.
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We're so excited to share Automatisch with HN finally. Automatisch is an open-source workflow automation tool, an alternative to Zapier. Together with my co-founder (@barinali), we have been working on it for about 15 months and have started getting early adopters.
Automatisch is a workflow automation tool that lets you connect different web services like Slack, Github, Twitter, and more to automate your business processes. For example, you can build automation that gets all new tweets, including the "open source" phrase, and post them to the Slack channel you specified. You can adjust the services and steps depending on what you actually need to automate in your business.
Even though some existing cloud solutions do the job well enough, we still wanted to build an open-source and self-hosted alternative to those. Because it allows you to store your data on your own servers, which is essential for businesses that handle sensitive user information and cannot risk sharing it with external cloud services. This is especially relevant for industries such as healthcare and finance, as well as for European companies that must comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
You can see the available integrations here (https://automatisch.io/docs/guide/available-apps). We currently have limited integrations but are constantly working on adding more and enhancing the existing ones. You can also request a new integration by using GitHub discussions: (https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch/discussions/categ...).
You can use the following links to check it out:
Website: https://automatisch.io\nDocs: https://automatisch.io/docs\nGitHub: https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch
Please give it a try and let us know if you have any feedback, and if you like what we are doing with Automatisch, please give us a star on GitHub.
Cheers!"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["zapier"],"value":"Show HN: Automatisch \u2013 Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://automatisch.io"}},"_tags":["story","author_farukaydin","story_34519639","show_hn"],"author":"farukaydin","children":[34520335,34520649,34520931,34521135,34521615,34521909,34522180,34522261,34522346,34522409,34522667,34523624,34524284,34524354,34526033,34540110],"created_at":"2023-01-25T15:46:48Z","created_at_i":1674661608,"num_comments":58,"objectID":"34519639","points":317,"story_id":34519639,"story_text":"Hey, HN community,
We're so excited to share Automatisch with HN finally. Automatisch is an open-source workflow automation tool, an alternative to Zapier. Together with my co-founder (@barinali), we have been working on it for about 15 months and have started getting early adopters.
Automatisch is a workflow automation tool that lets you connect different web services like Slack, Github, Twitter, and more to automate your business processes. For example, you can build automation that gets all new tweets, including the "open source" phrase, and post them to the Slack channel you specified. You can adjust the services and steps depending on what you actually need to automate in your business.
Even though some existing cloud solutions do the job well enough, we still wanted to build an open-source and self-hosted alternative to those. Because it allows you to store your data on your own servers, which is essential for businesses that handle sensitive user information and cannot risk sharing it with external cloud services. This is especially relevant for industries such as healthcare and finance, as well as for European companies that must comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
You can see the available integrations here (https://automatisch.io/docs/guide/available-apps). We currently have limited integrations but are constantly working on adding more and enhancing the existing ones. You can also request a new integration by using GitHub discussions: (https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch/discussions/categ...).
You can use the following links to check it out:
Website: https://automatisch.io\nDocs: https://automatisch.io/docs\nGitHub: https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch
Please give it a try and let us know if you have any feedback, and if you like what we are doing with Automatisch, please give us a star on GitHub.
Cheers!","title":"Show HN: Automatisch \u2013 Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier","updated_at":"2026-05-29T07:53:06Z","url":"https://automatisch.io"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"newcrobuzon"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["zapier"],"value":"Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://cloud.titanoboa.io/index.html"}},"_tags":["story","author_newcrobuzon","story_24407706","show_hn"],"author":"newcrobuzon","children":[24407724,24408307,24408550,24408558,24408661,24408764,24408945,24409192,24409445,24409639,24409793,24409931,24410778,24411274,24411308,24412099,24412225,24413845,24414972,24415500,24425773],"created_at":"2020-09-08T12:26:30Z","created_at_i":1599567990,"num_comments":79,"objectID":"24407706","points":279,"story_id":24407706,"title":"Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow","updated_at":"2026-04-11T02:02:23Z","url":"https://cloud.titanoboa.io/index.html"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Riphyak"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["zapier"],"value":"Interview with CTO and Co-founder of Zapier on Working with Remote Engineers"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["zapier"],"value":"https://youteam.io/blog/interview-with-bryan-cto-and-co-founder-of-zapier-on-working-with-remote-engineers/"}},"_tags":["story","author_Riphyak","story_16942058"],"author":"Riphyak","children":[16945201,16945229,16945389,16945497,16945608,16945876,16946353,16946358,16946507,16947100,16947184,16949013],"created_at":"2018-04-27T16:31:21Z","created_at_i":1524846681,"num_comments":91,"objectID":"16942058","points":248,"story_id":16942058,"title":"Interview with CTO and Co-founder of Zapier on Working with Remote Engineers","updated_at":"2025-09-01T00:21:29Z","url":"https://youteam.io/blog/interview-with-bryan-cto-and-co-founder-of-zapier-on-working-with-remote-engineers/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"gmays"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["zapier"],"value":"How Zapier Reached $35M ARR"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["zapier"],"value":"https://ryanberg.co/how-zapier-reached-35m-arr-with-this-saas-seo-strategy/"}},"_tags":["story","author_gmays","story_18456078"],"author":"gmays","children":[18456327,18456363,18456535,18456649,18456781,18456947,18457073,18457098,18457293,18457387,18457878,18458327,18458353,18458523,18458607,18458984,18459366,18459503,18461724],"created_at":"2018-11-15T01:23:10Z","created_at_i":1542244990,"num_comments":95,"objectID":"18456078","points":243,"story_id":18456078,"title":"How Zapier Reached $35M ARR","updated_at":"2024-09-20T03:20:32Z","url":"https://ryanberg.co/how-zapier-reached-35m-arr-with-this-saas-seo-strategy/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"georgesequeira"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["zapier"],"value":"Zapier: A $5B Unbundling Opportunity"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["zapier"],"value":"https://www.georgesequeira.com/writing/zapier-the-5b-unbundling-opportunity/"}},"_tags":["story","author_georgesequeira","story_31003071"],"author":"georgesequeira","children":[31003096,31003500,31003555,31003759,31003791,31003986,31004023,31004093,31004178,31004597,31004792,31004950,31004956,31005045,31005131,31005245,31005406,31005686,31005772,31005836,31005935,31006459,31007052,31007327,31008224,31008560,31009548,31009678,31010419,31010808,31011554,31011696,31012364,31012555,31019431,31020139,31034175],"created_at":"2022-04-12T14:18:21Z","created_at_i":1649773101,"num_comments":154,"objectID":"31003071","points":239,"story_id":31003071,"title":"Zapier: A $5B Unbundling Opportunity","updated_at":"2026-01-20T12:02:47Z","url":"https://www.georgesequeira.com/writing/zapier-the-5b-unbundling-opportunity/"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"mikeknoop"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["zapier"],"value":"Hey HN! We launched Zapier way back in 2012 on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4138415 and thought we'd return home to announce something special and hopefully exciting :) We are trying to finally live up to the "API" in our name with Zapier's first universal API:
Natural Language Actions \u2013 https://zapier.com/l/natural-language-actions
API docs \u2013 https://nla.zapier.com/api/v1/docs
(to be fair, we have published APIs before that can access Zapier data, but never before one devs can use to directly call the 5k+ apps / 20k+ actions on our platform)
For example, you can use the API to:
* Send messages in Slack\n * Retrieve a row in a Google Sheet\n * Draft a reply in Gmail\n * ... and thousands more actions with one universal API\nFolks have asked for an API for 10 years and I've always been slightly embarrassed we didn't have one. We hesitated because we did not want to pass along our universe of complexity to end devs. With the help of LLMs we found some cool patterns to deliver the API we always wanted.
My co-founder/CTO Bryan did an interview with Garry on YC blog with more details: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/building-apis-for-ai-an-int...
We also published a LangChain integration to show off some possibilities:
* Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEK_9wLYEHU\n * Jupyter notebook: https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain/blob/master/docs/modules/utils/examples/zapier.ipynb\nNatural Language Actions \u2013 https://zapier.com/l/natural-language-actions
API docs \u2013 https://nla.zapier.com/api/v1/docs
(to be fair, we have published APIs before that can access Zapier data, but never before one devs can use to directly call the 5k+ apps / 20k+ actions on our platform)
For example, you can use the API to:
* Send messages in Slack\n * Retrieve a row in a Google Sheet\n * Draft a reply in Gmail\n * ... and thousands more actions with one universal API\nFolks have asked for an API for 10 years and I've always been slightly embarrassed we didn't have one. We hesitated because we did not want to pass along our universe of complexity to end devs. With the help of LLMs we found some cool patterns to deliver the API we always wanted.
My co-founder/CTO Bryan did an interview with Garry on YC blog with more details: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/building-apis-for-ai-an-int...
We also published a LangChain integration to show off some possibilities:
* Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEK_9wLYEHU\n * Jupyter notebook: https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain/blob/master/docs/modules/utils/examples/zapier.ipynb\nWhen we used automation tools like Zapier at my previous job, we found that it became incredibly expensive very quickly, and we had only too few options to self-host business automation when data had to reside on prem.
There are open-source automation tools that we think are too technical like Huginn and Node-RED or developed under less permissive open source licenses like N8n.
So we decided to build an open source automation tool under a permissive license (MIT) with a simple user experience that doesn\u2019t require technical knowledge, and can be self-hosted. We plan to make money from the cloud version and a future enterprise edition with advanced features - maybe advanced roles and permissions.
The current version includes a visual designer for automation flows which can run on schedules (Cron), by Webhooks, or by triggers from external apps\u201425 apps and counting, including Stripe, Calendly, Google Sheets and others (we\u2019re building these rapidly).
The app is customizable, you can add custom steps using HTTP requests or you can write Node.js code and bring in your npm packages.
If you\u2019re curious about how it works, here are the docs: https://www.activepieces.com/docs
We\u2019d love to hear HN\u2019s thoughts on what we\u2019re building! Thanks!"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["zapier"],"value":"Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) \u2013 Open-Source Zapier Alternative"}},"_tags":["story","author_ashrafsam","story_34723989","launch_hn"],"author":"ashrafsam","children":[34724181,34724217,34724241,34724278,34724326,34724490,34725817,34725837,34726759,34727968,34728389,34732338,34733255,34733908,34734164,34735775,34736158,34737715,34749436,34750582,34855599],"created_at":"2023-02-09T14:02:21Z","created_at_i":1675951341,"num_comments":62,"objectID":"34723989","points":231,"story_id":34723989,"story_text":"Hi HN, I\u2019m one of the creators of Activepieces, an open source (MIT) no-code business automation tool. We\u2019re excited to share it with HN! Our Github is https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces, our website is https://www.activepieces.com/ and there\u2019s a video that shows how to build a Pipedrive + Slack + Email flow in 2 minutes at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY4TI6jGBwM
When we used automation tools like Zapier at my previous job, we found that it became incredibly expensive very quickly, and we had only too few options to self-host business automation when data had to reside on prem.
There are open-source automation tools that we think are too technical like Huginn and Node-RED or developed under less permissive open source licenses like N8n.
So we decided to build an open source automation tool under a permissive license (MIT) with a simple user experience that doesn\u2019t require technical knowledge, and can be self-hosted. We plan to make money from the cloud version and a future enterprise edition with advanced features - maybe advanced roles and permissions.
The current version includes a visual designer for automation flows which can run on schedules (Cron), by Webhooks, or by triggers from external apps\u201425 apps and counting, including Stripe, Calendly, Google Sheets and others (we\u2019re building these rapidly).
The app is customizable, you can add custom steps using HTTP requests or you can write Node.js code and bring in your npm packages.
If you\u2019re curious about how it works, here are the docs: https://www.activepieces.com/docs
We\u2019d love to hear HN\u2019s thoughts on what we\u2019re building! 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You can author workflows without writing any code: Pipedream supports over 700 integrated applications (GitHub, Slack, etc) [1] and all connectors are open source [2]. In addition, you can write any Node.js, Python, Go, or Bash code within workflows, extending the pre-built integrations with your own custom logic.
Since we launched Pipedream on HN [3], over 300k developers have used the product. Pipedream developers tell us consistently that they love the code-level control when they need it, and the built-in, no code integrations when they don't. But we\u2019ve also heard consistent feedback that the product needed to be easier to use, support more language runtimes, and provide a native Git integration.
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My cofounder @dylburger and I will be here to answer any questions.
[1] Explore our integrations - https://pipedream.com/explore
[2] GitHub - https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream
[3] Alpha launch on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21270424
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[2] GitHub - https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream
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I'm excited to share something we have been working on for over the past few months: Locale.ai. Its heart and soul lie in its SQL-configurable nature. You can directly connect Locale to your databases, data warehouse, or any SaaS tool that you use internally and craft custom alerts and ticketing conditions with SQL queries. The issues also get resolved on their own as we can detect them through data.
Before starting Locale, we worked across companies and managed tons of cron jobs with email reports, slack alerts for customer success operations and product. It\u2019s a tool born out of our problems of missing issues because of noisy slack channels, faulty cron jobs, airflow and constantly refreshing dashboards.
Locale identifies moments that need your attention based on the rules you set, and alerts the right people at the right time. These alerts then become tickets sent across Slack, WhatsApp, Jira or anywhere your team works so that you can track for resolution and enable escalation if not solved.
Whether you're in product, operations, sales, marketing, or any other team, Locale adapts to your unique workflows. It's designed to give you the power to define precisely what you want to monitor and how you want to be alerted across multiple channels, as long as you have the data captured for it.
Would love to hear your feedback, suggestions, or any cool ideas on the possible use cases for Locale. We're a small team determined to make this tool as user-centric as possible, so your input is invaluable to us.
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I'm excited to share something we have been working on for over the past few months: Locale.ai. Its heart and soul lie in its SQL-configurable nature. You can directly connect Locale to your databases, data warehouse, or any SaaS tool that you use internally and craft custom alerts and ticketing conditions with SQL queries. The issues also get resolved on their own as we can detect them through data.
Before starting Locale, we worked across companies and managed tons of cron jobs with email reports, slack alerts for customer success operations and product. It\u2019s a tool born out of our problems of missing issues because of noisy slack channels, faulty cron jobs, airflow and constantly refreshing dashboards.
Locale identifies moments that need your attention based on the rules you set, and alerts the right people at the right time. These alerts then become tickets sent across Slack, WhatsApp, Jira or anywhere your team works so that you can track for resolution and enable escalation if not solved.
Whether you're in product, operations, sales, marketing, or any other team, Locale adapts to your unique workflows. It's designed to give you the power to define precisely what you want to monitor and how you want to be alerted across multiple channels, as long as you have the data captured for it.
Would love to hear your feedback, suggestions, or any cool ideas on the possible use cases for Locale. We're a small team determined to make this tool as user-centric as possible, so your input is invaluable to us.
Check it out here https://locale.ai.
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