Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow

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Post by newcrobuzon » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 12:26 PM UTC

Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow
cloud.titanoboa.io

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Post by newcrobuzon » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 12:28 PM UTC

Hi HN peeps! I single-handedly built Titanoboa (a workflow automation for JVM) and now I am experimenting with hosting dockerized Titanoboa instances - so I built a free hosting service. If you want to play with Titanoboa in your browser without installing anything, give it a try.

Feel free to check out Titanoboa on Github: https://github.com/mikub/titanoboa

Also: This is an early beta so please do let me know if something breaks or you spot a bug. Atm I have load-balancers set up only on West coast and in Europe, so apologies to folks from down under & similar locations, let me know if it's too laggy :)

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Post by kevsim » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 1:50 PM UTC

Impressive feat of engineering for one person!

But is it really an alternative to Zapier? I mean, while Zapier is obviously about automation, it always felt that their big selling point was the sheer number of integrations they provide.

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Post by newcrobuzon » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 2:05 PM UTC

kevsim wrote: post #3

Impressive feat of engineering for one person! But is it really an alternative to Zapier? I mean, while Zapier is obviously about automation, it always felt that their big selling point was the sheer number of integrations they provide.

My aim is to make this easier to customize - i.e. develop custom steps on the run and have an instant feedback loop as you develop or customize existing integrations.

Target audience might be slightly different ultimately, but we'll see - I would envision this to be more useful in an enterprise environment where you pretty much always have to customize the integrations that were provided out of the box.

Re: Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow

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Post by cateye » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 2:08 PM UTC

newcrobuzon wrote: post #2

Hi HN peeps! I single-handedly built Titanoboa (a workflow automation for JVM) and now I am experimenting with hosting dockerized Titanoboa instances - so I built a free hosting service. If you want to play with Titanoboa in your browser without installing anything, give it a try. Feel free to check out Titanoboa on Github: https://github.com/mikub/titanoboa Also: This is an early beta so please do let me know if som…

Why do you describe it as "automation for JVM" instead of "automation that runs on JVM"?

Re: Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow

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Post by newcrobuzon » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 2:12 PM UTC

Wow, this has blown up a bit, so I have added few more servers (now two servers on the West coast and two in Europe), but ultimately I think there is a limit cap of 100 Titanoboa instances in each geography in parallel.

So if we break that level please don't be mad if you don't get your instance :)

Instead give me a star on github and come back later :)

Cheers Miro

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Post by foolinaround » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 2:13 PM UTC

is there some recipes or some common scenarios one can 'import' in to check it out?

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Post by newcrobuzon » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 2:14 PM UTC

cateye wrote: post #5

newcrobuzon wrote: post #2

Hi HN peeps! I single-handedly built Titanoboa (a workflow automation for JVM) and now I am experimenting with hosting dockerized Titanoboa instances - so I built a free hosting service. If you want to play with Titanoboa in your browser without installing anything, give it a try. Feel free to check out Titanoboa on Github: https://github.com/mikub/titanoboa Also: This is an early beta so please do let me know if som…

Why do you describe it as "automation for JVM" instead of "automation that runs on JVM"?

Good point, not a native speaker so I thought this would roughly mean the same.

The main message I wanted to convey was that this runs on JVM and multiple JVM languages (java and clojure) could be used.

Re: Show HN: Free hosted open-source alternative to Zapier/Airflow

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Post by jchook » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

@newcrobuzon you have some kind of comment string output at the top of your html body tag. Looks like something you do not want exposed.

Congratulations on reaching public beta and for submitting to HN! Looks very promising!

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Post by juliend2 » Tue, Sep 08, 2020, 2:32 PM UTC

Very interesting! What library did you use for the SVG powered diagram tool?