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Re: Show HN: Pipedream 2.0 – AWS Lambda + Zapier alternative

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Post by timwis »

dylburger wrote: post #17
timwis wrote: post #14

Got the email so I must have signed up before. Demo video looks awesome! Just some feedback, when I visited the site on my mobile, I scrolled down, and it scrolled horizontally with weird widths, which made it feel not tested on mobile, plus the menu hamburger didn’t work, so I couldn’t find the pricing, and it made me reconsider whether I’d rely on this in production. For reference, I’m on iOS Firefox (which is basi…

The fix for the broken hamburger menu on mobile should be out, thanks again for raising. You can see our pricing at https://pipedream.com/pricing and a deeper overview / FAQ here: https://pipedream.com/docs/pricing/

Thanks! The horizontal scrolling issue looks fixed. Unfortunately, though, the hamburger menu still isn’t working, and strangely it looks as if whole site is rendered twice?

Here’s a video: https://imgur.com/5jhbouf

Re: Show HN: Pipedream 2.0 – AWS Lambda + Zapier alternative

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Post by alexellisuk »

dylburger wrote: post #20
toomuchtodo wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you use OpenFAAS as an execution environment for the integrations/functions? This would allow you to run this without Lambda as well.

Yes we're thinking a lot about this. The vision would be let you execute workflows on whatever function runtime you use. So you'd have one definition of a workflow on Pipedream, but that could be serialized to e.g. a Google Cloud Function, an OpenFAAS function, etc. And you'd get to run it in your own VPC, with access to your own internal resources, without relying on Pipedream's infra. Still in the idea phase, but l…

Hey, I'm the maintainer of OpenFaaS. Thanks for mentioning the project.

Pipedream v1 ran on Lambda, but this post is touted as "AWS Lambda alternative", have you moved off the AWS Lambda platform?

I was curious how you added support for other languages, was it in the same way that you built-in support for Node.js? Where all the code gets effectively built into a single Lambda function and proxied?

For people who want to call OpenFaaS workloads from Pipedream, that's possible over HTTP and Pipedream makes that relatively simple. One thing I think they've really nailed is the OAuth integration, it just makes that whole painful flow a lot more convenient. I also like the editor and the way it infers what kind of input will go into the next step in a workflow.

Alex

Re: Show HN: Pipedream 2.0 – AWS Lambda + Zapier alternative

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Post by dylburger »

alexellisuk wrote: post #22
dylburger wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes we're thinking a lot about this. The vision would be let you execute workflows on whatever function runtime you use. So you'd have one definition of a workflow on Pipedream, but that could be serialized to e.g. a Google Cloud Function, an OpenFAAS function, etc. And you'd get to run it in your own VPC, with access to your own internal resources, without relying on Pipedream's infra. Still in the idea phase, but l…

Hey, I'm the maintainer of OpenFaaS. Thanks for mentioning the project. Pipedream v1 ran on Lambda, but this post is touted as "AWS Lambda alternative", have you moved off the AWS Lambda platform? I was curious how you added support for other languages, was it in the same way that you built-in support for Node.js? Where all the code gets effectively built into a single Lambda function and proxied? For people who want…

Hey Alex!

We build our own containers and still run them on Lambda. The container base image contains the necessary language runtimes so that we can execute both Node.js and e.g. Python in the same workflow.

Do you think it would make sense to add an OpenFAAS integration to Pipedream? Then it would show up when users searched for it in workflows, and have a dedicated page at https://pipedream.com/apps . Even if we just end up wrapping HTTP requests to kick off a function, we've found it's helpful because users are often searching for FaaS platforms by name when they want to integrate with them in a workflow.

Re: Show HN: Pipedream 2.0 – AWS Lambda + Zapier alternative

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Post by 58x14 »

58x14 wrote: post #24

Wow, wow! I think this may shave dozens of hours off a few workflows I've recently been scoping for a new project. I'm gonna start playing with this tonight. How have I not heard of you before?

Tiny grammatical error on the docs page (https://pipedream.com/docs)

The last sentence of the Open Source section reads: "You can also create a PR contribute new or enhanced components via GitHub."

Probably should read, "You can also create a PR and contribute new or enhanced components via Github."

Re: Show HN: Pipedream 2.0 – AWS Lambda + Zapier alternative

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL »

Question! This sounds amazing, however it's not clear if the free tier is 10k/month or if after 10k in total (globally), the account will be "disabled permanently" until starts paying.

Personal request: can you provide a low cost tier for personal usage? I love the idea, but the number of invocations I'm talking about is probably around 200/month (for family related stuff), I can't justify paying 20$/month for that to my wife

Re: Show HN: Pipedream 2.0 – AWS Lambda + Zapier alternative

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Post by todsacerdoti »

Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #26

Question! This sounds amazing, however it's not clear if the free tier is 10k/month or if after 10k in total (globally), the account will be "disabled permanently" until starts paying. Personal request: can you provide a low cost tier for personal usage? I love the idea, but the number of invocations I'm talking about is probably around 200/month (for family related stuff), I can't justify paying 20$/month for that t…

It is 10k per month with a daily cap on the free tier. See pipedream.com/pricing.

Re: Show HN: Pipedream 2.0 – AWS Lambda + Zapier alternative

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Post by todsacerdoti »

Zekio wrote: post #28

I'm surprised you've kept the name pipedream for so long, considering the fact it is also a brand of adult toys makes searching the word pipedream not exactly "safe for work"

We are #1 in most searches now but we do see an occasional image which can be surprising. We love the name so it’s not changing!
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