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windmill
Open-source developer platform to turn scripts into workflows and UIs. Fastest workflow engine (5x vs Airflow). Open-source alternative to Airplane and Retool.
For coders that would stay away because of those limitations, we built Windmill (https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill) as an OSS low-code builder allowing you to define flows (sequence of scripts essentially) made out of arbitrary code in Deno or Python. You can use it as a self-hosted AWS Lambda if you need to but can gradually leverage all the convenience of low-code builders when you feel ready to, and start reusing modules made by the community on https://hub.windmill.dev . You can see it as an open-source alternative to Pipedream which is very different from what Tooljet is doing. So hoping I am not hijacking too much the post as the tools have very different scope and are more complementary than competing.
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lowdefy
The config web stack for business apps - build internal tools, client portals, web apps, admin panels, dashboards, web sites, and CRUD apps with YAML or JSON.
Shameless plug, also check out Lowdefy - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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When you are building a SaaS product that only runs on your servers, you can use whatever you want.
But when you are building an OSS product, there are a couple of more things to consider: those who will run it, and those who will contribute to it.
For instance, I love the idea of Nextcloud, but I would neither run it, nor contribute to it as long, as it is written in PHP.
Currently, there are 161 comments on Hacker News with the words "Nextcloud" and "slow":
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The same applies to Gitlab, which is written in Ruby and runs on Ruby on Rails under the hood.
Currently, there are 1,656 comments on Hacker News with the words "Gitlab" and "slow":
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Had they made the right technological choices from beginning, there would be no need for articles titled "Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at GitLab" in 2022:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31684529
With the CEO of the Gitlab admitting in the comments:
> Performance is indeed worse. We're moving the 20% of the app consuming 80% of the compute to Go.
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httpie
🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more. (by httpie)
Another great example of a solo-founder OSS project is HTTPie https://httpie.io/