Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes

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  1. pipedream

    Connect APIs, remarkably fast. Free for developers.

    https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream/issues/954

    No I don’t think so. You probably want n8n if you’re keen on self-hosting.

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  3. flowpipe

    Flowpipe is a cloud scripting engine. Automation and workflow to connect your clouds to the people, systems and data that matters.

    Readers may enjoy Flowpipe [1], an open source cloud scripting engine we launched this week. It allows creation of pipelines in HCL to connect HTTP queries, run containers, execute lambda-compatible functions, query databases, etc all from your own machine / CLI. It can also be combined with Steampie[2], our open source project to query cloud resources (139+ plugins) with SQL. Yahoo Pipes was part of the inspiration for our naming of these "pipes" :-)

    1 - https://github.com/turbot/flowpipe

  4. steampipe

    Zero-ETL, infinite possibilities. Live query APIs, code & more with SQL. No DB required.

  5. Huginn

    Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!

    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/introducti...

    - Huginn: https://github.com/huginn/huginn

    - budibase: https://budibase.com/

    - windmill: https://www.windmill.dev/

    - tooljet: https://www.tooljet.com/workflows

    - Bracket: https://www.usebracket.com/pricing (just SalesForce <-> PostgreSQL)

    - Zapier: zapier.com/

    Anyway I hope some of these are fun!

  6. Node RED

    Low-code programming for event-driven applications

    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/introducti...

    - Huginn: https://github.com/huginn/huginn

    - budibase: https://budibase.com/

    - windmill: https://www.windmill.dev/

    - tooljet: https://www.tooljet.com/workflows

    - Bracket: https://www.usebracket.com/pricing (just SalesForce <-> PostgreSQL)

    - Zapier: zapier.com/

    Anyway I hope some of these are fun!

  7. budibase

    Budibase is an open-source low code platform that helps you build internal tools in minutes 🚀

    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/introducti...

    - Huginn: https://github.com/huginn/huginn

    - budibase: https://budibase.com/

    - windmill: https://www.windmill.dev/

    - tooljet: https://www.tooljet.com/workflows

    - Bracket: https://www.usebracket.com/pricing (just SalesForce <-> PostgreSQL)

    - Zapier: zapier.com/

    Anyway I hope some of these are fun!

  8. windmill

    Open-source developer platform to power your entire infra and turn scripts into webhooks, workflows and UIs. Fastest workflow engine (13x vs Airflow). Open-source alternative to Retool and Temporal.

    https://windmill.dev is a self-hostable OSS alternative to pipedream

    (disclaimer: I'm founder)

  9. Nutrient

    Nutrient – The #1 PDF SDK Library, trusted by 10K+ developers. Other PDF SDKs promise a lot - then break. Laggy scrolling, poor mobile UX, tons of bugs, and lack of support cost you endless frustrations. Nutrient’s SDK handles billion-page workloads - so you don’t have to debug PDFs. Used by ~1 billion end users in more than 150 different countries.

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