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Launch HN: Flowdash (YC W20) – Human-in-the-loop tooling for operations teams

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Re: Launch HN: Flowdash (YC W20) – Human-in-the-loop tooling for operations teams

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I may be wrong but this is a "MeToo" workflow automation app/engine. It's nothing that can't be done with open source tools, for much less than $400/year per user.

Just research "Open source workflow automation engine" to see it for yourself.

Good luck guys, WORKFLOW AUTOMATION IS A SOLVED PROBLEM!!! You'll make a buck, it's a big pie, but not from everyone.

Re: Launch HN: Flowdash (YC W20) – Human-in-the-loop tooling for operations teams

#32

I may be wrong but this is a "MeToo" workflow automation app/engine. It's nothing that can't be done with open source tools, for much less than $400/year per user. Just research "Open source workflow automation engine" to see it for yourself. Good luck guys, WORKFLOW AUTOMATION IS A SOLVED PROBLEM!!! You'll make a buck, it's a big pie, but not from everyone.

But I think that’s he point. This is aimed at non tech teams. It minimises the amount of work the engineers need to do. Using open source solutions doesn’t because let’s face it an engineer needs to sit down figure out how to install it and they have to maintain it. For example at work we use Wikipedia. That’s open source right. It’s run on a k8s cluster. Open source! This is not a no-cost solution!

Re: Launch HN: Flowdash (YC W20) – Human-in-the-loop tooling for operations teams

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Happy to provide more details. We settled on our current pricing based on conversations with our early customers. For many of them, the alternative was to build something in-house, so they saw our pricing as pretty affordable when compared to the dev cost to build a custom solution. That being said, we’re pretty early and still iterating on our pricing. If you’re up for it, we’d love to learn more about your use case…

Sure. What questions do you have? I replied to another comment down below explaining why the pricing model is out of my reach, but I'll copy it here too: > I can definitely put down the $25/mo, but if I want to add two people who can help me out that jumps to $75/mo or $900/yr. I'm not at the stage where I can afford to hire employees yet (I'm the only one, and the drivers are contractors), so this would be a big exp…

Thanks for sharing your perspective. I can see how per-user pricing doesn't scale well for you.

> What questions do you have? We're curious what specific flows you were interested in migrating over? Who performs this work today? How does it work end-to-end? What tools do you use to track the work? If you prefer to message me privately, my email address is nick flowdash com.

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