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n8n
Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool. Easily automate tasks across different services.
An alternative to this (more similar to node red, actually) is n8n [1], which is pretty cool, but as others have said here, I never found a good application for this.
[1]: https://n8n.io/
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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It's trivial to write your own agents, and use other 3rd party gems in those agents. For fetching data from LinkedIn, checkout https://github.com/mdesjardins/linkedin-v2 (YMMV)
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lunasec
LunaSec - Dependency Security Scanner that automatically notifies you about vulnerabilities like Log4Shell or node-ipc in your Pull Requests and Builds. Protect yourself in 30 seconds with the LunaTrace GitHub App: https://github.com/marketplace/lunatrace-by-lunasec/
In this case, our "niche" was Jr. Devs that could write some code but couldn't get something deployed very easily. Kind of like Heroku.
The angle of it being "generic" was that it required that you knew how to code. We didn't really give you many pre-defined "building blocks" to get started with. We tried to find a "niche" within that space (like a web scraper) but we just never got it quite right without needing to re-think everything we'd built.
Since then, we've ended up doing Open Source security tooling instead[0]. We wrote up the first technical blog post about the recent log4j vuln[1] and that's been valuable for helping us identify "niche" problems that companies struggle with.
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