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Re: Show HN: Cptn.io – open-source integration platform

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What differentiates this from n8n?

I haven't used n8n before, but n8n looks much more mature, feature rich and no code capabilities. You can build any workflow in cptn as well, but most of the workflow is built via scripting.

Licensing "seems" to be restrictive if you want to use for commercial purposes (I am not quite sure about Sustainable Use License).

Re: Show HN: Cptn.io – open-source integration platform

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Hi! In what does this differentiate from Windmill.dev? The license seems to be more permissive (AGPL vs MIT) but there isn't any Python support, and less integrations (for now ?) :) Wishing you the best of luck! https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill

Thanks.

I think there are a number of platforms for building workflows and integrations today. Some of the platforms serving specific niche (e.g. RudderStack chose to serve CDP, airplane for building internal dev tools). But in the end all of them act on a trigger to transform inbound event data and send it to a destination end point.

Windmill looks cool with support for multiple languages, no-code editor and all the OOTB integrations.

cptn is still evolving - it needs to have more integrations, UX flows need to be improved, it has to get better from Ops perspective.

Re: Show HN: Cptn.io – open-source integration platform

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is this a sort of heroku? this gives me pause because i am dubious about building on a platform's PaaS as it is now I have this as an option but they (AWS, GCP, etc) are likely to be around, but you're just you.

So is this something we can self host or... is there a hostable solution you want to push folks to?

Re: Show HN: Cptn.io – open-source integration platform

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is this a sort of heroku? this gives me pause because i am dubious about building on a platform's PaaS as it is now I have this as an option but they (AWS, GCP, etc) are likely to be around, but you're just you. So is this something we can self host or... is there a hostable solution you want to push folks to?

It is self-hostable today. Just clone the repository, update the .env file and run "docker compose up" to get the instance running.

Re: Show HN: Cptn.io – open-source integration platform

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Hmm.. Gives me early vibes. Which reminds me, maybe I should start promoting my thing[0] too best of luck [0]: https://github.com/temphia/temphia

Thanks. It's not v1 yet.

It's about 3 months in the making and needs improvements around ops, tests. I am hoping to make progress with adding tests in the coming days and provide monitoring capabilities.

Re: Show HN: Cptn.io – open-source integration platform

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Hmm.. Gives me early vibes. Which reminds me, maybe I should start promoting my thing[0] too best of luck [0]: https://github.com/temphia/temphia

Your project looks really interesting. I've been looking into many different "plugin" architecture options (mainly with the goal to run untrusted js/ts code) and your extended readme sounds interesting.

But i can tell it's early so i'm not fully seeing how this would be used (like an example folder).

- I too have tried to think of how plugins could be "full-stack" with both sandboxing on BE & FE via iframe but i'm not seeing in your repo the code that handles the FE sandboxing? (I could be totally looking in the wrong place)

- I looked into using wasm "containers" as well- does your architecture have a scalable way to optimize "cold boot" of a container for near-instant run/render?

Again, cool project and good luck! I think there's so much room for innovation in this area of making micro-functionality truly portable & composable!

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