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Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by janober » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 6:04 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #52

janober wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

n8n does also have way fewer integrations. About the "robust" part. A startup I know had a lot of issues with Zapier and switched to n8n and are quite happy as they did not have any issues since. I am sure you are right and you did your research but would love to hear what exactly you are referring to as it will help me to improve n8n. The same with the limitations. Anything specific?

Have you considered generating integrations pragmatically using OpenAPI?

Yes, I did but did not get to it yet. Also not sure if this integrations would then be the "best" to use. I think it would be great to have at least "something" if nothing exists yet but would not be as good and easy as regular integrations and so would not fit perfectly into n8n as I really want to have it as easy as possible for users.

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by falcor84 » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 6:09 PM UTC

PatrolX wrote: post #5

Not just an alternative though. - Self-hosted - Unlimited and FREE vs $699 / month - Create your own agents / integrations - Process data through shell scripts or JavaScript - Better filtering - Liquid templating - Completely private I save thousands of dollars by using Huginn. It's incredibly powerful and quite frankly I don't trust Zapier with my data and visibility of what I'm doing because there are commercial im…

Not disputing any of the other alternatives, but you can create custom integrations on Zapier. It's mostly intended for publishing them publicly, but you don't have to.

https://platform.zapier.com/partners/lifecycle-planning

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by m-p-3 » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 6:12 PM UTC

Interesting, I should switch to that for some location-based action with my phone instead of IFTTT and see if I can make it work with Hauk or something similar.

https://github.com/bilde2910/Hauk

Disclaimer: I have no link with the Hauk project, just found about it by browsing the F-Droid store.

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by carrozo » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 6:18 PM UTC

tectonic wrote: post #41

It's fun to wake up to find a project that I started on the top of HN! These days, I'm no longer very involved with the day-to-day of the project. Now that it's no longer a young project, here are some musings about Huginn and responses to people's comments in this thread, in no particular order. I've found that Huginn excels as a scheduled web scraper with lightweight filtering. That's what I use it for. On the othe…

Love your newsletter! Brilliant writing and I think I click on more of its links than most of the many I receive.

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by howmayiannoyyou » Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 6:21 PM UTC

PatrolX wrote: post #34

howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #13

Zapier has exponentially more integrations than this or anything else, but is surprisingly difficult to use, and more so since they updated their UI. Editing Zaps is pure torture because refresh is so difficult. Exception handling is pure pain. In most instances the breadth of API calls is so narrow, and so rarely updated by vendors that you end up switching to a custom integration. I've also noticed vendors rapidly…

> The "retail" integration space remains underserved This is accurate, there's a significant opportunity in this space but it won't stay that way for long. There's a well-known entrepreneur I know with significant exits and capital entering this space that's going after Zapier's market and I'm certain he's not alone.

Zapier can sell equity for an insane valuation IMHO. Money isn't their problem I think. I think - may be wrong - the problem is management. My sense is they are hampered by prior success bias and lack of what I'll call "grey hair" experience that provides insight into the business case their "retail" customers face. Again might be wrong, but something suggests arrogance to me.