Nice! Automatisch is dutch (and german) for automatic, what a cool name!
Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier
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#12Nice! Automatisch is dutch (and german) for automatic, what a cool name!
Thanks. We're Berlin based software engineers :)
We hesitated to use non-english word but so far people liked it.
Re: Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier
#13This looks great. I really want a way to plug in to (in my case) Xero, and do some automation. I'm perfectly happy writing code but it seems painfully complicated to do all the oauth authentication stuff and hosting an interface and whatnot. All I want to do is trigger an event on something happening. Is adding oauth services relatively easy?
Re: Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier
#14This looks great. I really want a way to plug in to (in my case) Xero, and do some automation. I'm perfectly happy writing code but it seems painfully complicated to do all the oauth authentication stuff and hosting an interface and whatnot. All I want to do is trigger an event on something happening. Is adding oauth services relatively easy?
Thank you so much!
We have actually put so much effort into developer experience, especially for building new integrations. You can check examples using oauth authentication: https://automatisch.io/docs/build-integrations/examples
If you want to check out all documentation for building integrations, you can use this page: https://automatisch.io/docs/build-integrations/folder-struct...
My suggestion would be that you can copy an app folder that uses oauth and iterate it to cover your integration. Please let me know if you have any questions!
Re: Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier
#15This looks very cool and I'm excited to try it out later today. In the past I've tried Huginn but I have always found Ruby to be particularly unapproachable and the first integration I tried was broken (the weather integration) and despite submitting a PR to fix it, the PR has languished for years.
Here's some questions:
- How does this differ from Huginn?
- How easy is it to install integrations from outside the main source tree? In other words, can I create an integration and publish it on my own Github profile and have others use it with ease?
- Is Automatisch a purely OSS project, or are you planning to build a business around it? What type of business model?
- Is Automatisch primarily focused at home users or business use cases? The integrations listed in the docs seem primarily home-focused.
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#16Awesome. Do you plan on offering a paid hosted version? Would be great, especially if you would host it in Germany (or EU). Grüße von Hamburg!
Re: Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier
#17This looks very cool and I'm excited to try it out later today. In the past I've tried Huginn but I have always found Ruby to be particularly unapproachable and the first integration I tried was broken (the weather integration) and despite submitting a PR to fix it, the PR has languished for years. Here's some questions: - How does this differ from Huginn? - How easy is it to install integrations from outside the mai…
Thanks a lot!
- It may not differ in the sense of integrations and general functionality. However, the most significant difference is that we aim not only for developers but also general users who may not have programming knowledge.
- At the moment, it's only possible if we merge the integration into the source code, but we're thinking about possible ways to have external integrations and also private integrations.
- We would like to build a business around it without limiting the open-source version in terms of integrations and core functionality. It's still in the plan, but I can say that only the enterprise feature set will require payment.
- We focused on mostly business use cases, but we also have home users, and we're happy to support them.
Re: Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier
#18This looks very cool and I'm excited to try it out later today. In the past I've tried Huginn but I have always found Ruby to be particularly unapproachable and the first integration I tried was broken (the weather integration) and despite submitting a PR to fix it, the PR has languished for years. Here's some questions: - How does this differ from Huginn? - How easy is it to install integrations from outside the mai…
From gleaning at the repo's license, they use AGPL. So that seems tailored towards building a business around it. I find that quite exciting, because I have been thinking about which license to use for a project of mine as well, so that a) it is open-source, and b) I can build a business on top of it. AGPL seems to fit the bill perfectly, as long as you are careful about the license of contributions.
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#19This looks very cool and I'm excited to try it out later today. In the past I've tried Huginn but I have always found Ruby to be particularly unapproachable and the first integration I tried was broken (the weather integration) and despite submitting a PR to fix it, the PR has languished for years. Here's some questions: - How does this differ from Huginn? - How easy is it to install integrations from outside the mai…
From gleaning at the repo's license, they use AGPL. So that seems tailored towards building a business around it. I find that quite exciting, because I have been thinking about which license to use for a project of mine as well, so that a) it is open-source, and b) I can build a business on top of it. AGPL seems to fit the bill perfectly, as long as you are careful about the license of contributions.
We spent some time to research about licenses. AGPL allows us to keep it open source and also build a business around it as you said.
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#20Great product !
Personally my main use case is automating social media posts from RSS/webhooks So adding these platforms is needed for me: - LinkedIn - Facebook - mastodon - Telegram - (nice to have) Matrix
I know its a lot to ask, but maybe that's possible in your roadmap, because I'm really interested in using it!