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Re: Show HN: Workflow86 - An AI business analyst and automation engineer

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Post by chinathrow »

taaron wrote: post #10
65 wrote: post #9

How is this better than Zapier?

Because we started with a focus on orchestrating forms and tasks, I'd say we're more suited for complex, long-running workflows that involve a lot of stop/start steps assigned to different teams (e.g. review and approvals) mixed with automation in between. We actually integrate with Zapier i.e. you can trigger a workflow from Zapier, and we can trigger a zap from within a workflow. While Zapier has also done some gre…

Looks like your product might be a perfect acquisition target for Zapier then ;)

Re: Show HN: Workflow86 - An AI business analyst and automation engineer

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Post by taaron »

causal wrote: post #6
taaron wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, we built the workflow builder entirely ourselves, but I guess most workflow builders do end up looking very similar!

That strikes me as a surprising choice given the amount of prebuilt integrations with n8n

One factor in hindsight for doing this in-house was we did find out that AI can struggle with understanding and navigating existing workflow builders that were built and optimized for human usage and comprehension e.g. what nodes are available, the options that can set inside of those nodes and even how they are named had quite an impact on whether the AI could reliably form valid workflows on its own.

Re: Show HN: Workflow86 - An AI business analyst and automation engineer

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Post by antidnan »

Random but I love the name. I feel like we've entered into a new fun era of startup names. No more ___ly or ___ist etc. This era is generic word/noun + arbitrary numbers or letters after it.

I think ChatGPT really kicked that off, but maybe it was something else that inspired it?

Less normie/friendly and more technical sounding. So far, I'm a fan!

Re: Show HN: Workflow86 - An AI business analyst and automation engineer

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Post by taaron »

antidnan wrote: post #16

Random but I love the name. I feel like we've entered into a new fun era of startup names. No more ___ly or ___ist etc. This era is generic word/noun + arbitrary numbers or letters after it. I think ChatGPT really kicked that off, but maybe it was something else that inspired it? Less normie/friendly and more technical sounding. So far, I'm a fan!

Partially inspired by WD-40 but more so the exorbitant price for anything workflow.com. The number did have some logic behind it: 8 letters in automate and 6 in no-code.

Re: Show HN: Workflow86 - An AI business analyst and automation engineer

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Post by bushido »

causal wrote: post #6
taaron wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, we built the workflow builder entirely ourselves, but I guess most workflow builders do end up looking very similar!

That strikes me as a surprising choice given the amount of prebuilt integrations with n8n

Not that surprising if you take n8n license into account. Its very prohibitive.

Re: Show HN: Workflow86 - An AI business analyst and automation engineer

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Post by fragmede »

taaron wrote: post #17
antidnan wrote: post #16

Random but I love the name. I feel like we've entered into a new fun era of startup names. No more ___ly or ___ist etc. This era is generic word/noun + arbitrary numbers or letters after it. I think ChatGPT really kicked that off, but maybe it was something else that inspired it? Less normie/friendly and more technical sounding. So far, I'm a fan!

Partially inspired by WD-40 but more so the exorbitant price for anything workflow.com. The number did have some logic behind it: 8 letters in automate and 6 in no-code.

I thought it had to do with the 8086 dynasty of of Intel processors and the relation to tech and automation that computers have.
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