Seems like all of these self-hosted automation apps struggle to incorporate Facebook adapters. Does anyone know of one that would allow me to read Tweets and post ones containing some particular text to a Facebook page (not my personal timeline/page but one I created for my project)?
Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
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Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
#72Zapier 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.
He should make this effort a marketplace like zapier but let the finance side come from SAAS that let them offer the opportunity to share revenue through a resellers agreement. For customers in zapiers model this would mean zapier would be for free solong there is a resellers agreement in place. This would decouple the adaptation friction on using the service and for zapier this would bundle every SAAS contract on their infrastructure. Even Google offers resellers of SAAS GSuite a whopping 20% revenue share.
Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
#73Not to be confused with Hugin: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
Agreed. It was a surprise to see Hugin get top billing on HN other than for awesome panoramic image stitching.
Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
#74"Once a day, ask 5 people for a funny cat photo; send the results to 5 more people to be rated; send the top-rated photo to 5 people for a funny caption; send to 5 final people to rate for funniest caption; finally, post the best captioned photo on my blog." I'm still laughing :) wth! (My fear is that this might actually be sustainable with ads.)
I agree, that was an eye-opener example
Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I just use the Javascript agent for v complex stuff like this.
Oh, how could I have missed the JS Agent... thanks a lot for the hint! But it looks like it's not node, so no npm modules and other node APIs.
That's correct. You could shell-out to node with the Shell Command Agent though.
Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
#76It'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.
I'm glad you're enjoying it! Writing it weekly has been a great experience, and I've learned a ton about space science & industry in the process.
Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
#77It'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…
I'm excited to check this out, but I wanted to congratulate you on a truly excellent project name. Having spent many, many hours in naming struggles, I truly appreciate the perfection. And for those unfamiliar, the (also amazingly named) historian Snori Sturluson explains: "Two ravens sit on his (Odin’s) shoulders and whisper all the news which they see and hear into his ear; they are called Huginn and Muninn. He sen…
Fittingly, Munin is a sorta-popular server monitoring tool: http://munin-monitoring.org
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#78I've seen the word "rake", so I guess... is this written in Ruby? If so, how's the performance? My home server is pretty minimal and lightweight: a Raspberry Pi. Do you think it will run it fine? (I'm gonna want to try this anyway, didn't know about it until now and it looks amazing!)
A fresh Huginn container idles at ~300MB of memory without any configuration on my part. A fresh node-red container idles at 30MB.
Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
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Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
#80It'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…
I'm excited to check this out, but I wanted to congratulate you on a truly excellent project name. Having spent many, many hours in naming struggles, I truly appreciate the perfection. And for those unfamiliar, the (also amazingly named) historian Snori Sturluson explains: "Two ravens sit on his (Odin’s) shoulders and whisper all the news which they see and hear into his ear; they are called Huginn and Muninn. He sen…
There is a lovely two player board game called Odin's Ravens in which players acting as Muninn and Huginn race against each other by playing landscape cards. [1]
I wasn't aware of the full details of the lore so thank you for bringing that up!
[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/192074/odins-ravens-seco...