Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) – Open-Source Zapier Alternative

• activepieces

  31 7,153 10.0 TypeScript

  Your friendliest open source all-in-one automation tool ✨ Workflow automation tool 100+ integration / Enterprise automation tool / Zapier Alternative

  

Hi HN, I’m one of the creators of Activepieces, an open source (MIT) no-code business automation tool. We’re excited to share it with HN! Our Github is https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces, our website is https://www.activepieces.com/ and there’s 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’t 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—25 apps and counting, including Stripe, Calendly, Google Sheets and others (we’re 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’re curious about how it works, here are the docs: https://www.activepieces.com/docs

We’d love to hear HN’s thoughts on what we’re building!

Thanks.

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The development began two months ago and we have not encountered any scaling issues yet, as the majority of users self-host. Therefore, our priority was focused on building apps. Is there anything you believe we should consider?

You are correct, repeating the same index twice is a mistake. That's why I love open source.

We are using nano id (https://www.npmjs.com/package/nanoid) for all entities, It's stored as varchar in the database.

• SurveyJS

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• automatisch

  31 3,918 9.8 JavaScript

  The open source Zapier alternative. Build workflow automation without spending time and money.

  

And Automatisch a few days before that. In September, CRDT databases were all the rage. This month, it's no-code workflow tools. I guess it makes sense that once someone launches, the rest want to follow quickly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34519639

https://automatisch.io/

• trigger.dev

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Considering that another open source alternative [0][1] was posted just a few days ago, how does this compare?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34610686

[1] https://trigger.dev/

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• WorkOS

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