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Re: Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier

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Awesome. 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!

Thanks! It's not planned for the near future but we might do it because it's a good place to demonstrate what Automatisch is capable of without installing it anywhere.

Re: Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier

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This 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…

Great stuff! FWIW I've been looking for a "some code" platform, that removes the overhead and plumbing requirements for automation, but still allows arbitrary code to run in the automations. Basically, I can code, but there are loads of things about web development I have no interest in or want to think about. What would be amazing to me would be a way in which APIs can be abstracted away and a low code API for various languages is provided. It could just be JSON or something, but without any crappy hosting or oauth concerns.

Re: Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier

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Great 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!

Thanks for the comment!

We have Telegram integration that sends messages to a channel. For others, we're planning to implement them eventually. We gather all integration requests from GitHub discussions (https://github.com/automatisch/automatisch/discussions/categ...) and prioritize the most requested ones.

Re: Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier

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post #23

It's funny that n8n is also in Germany. I moved from Zappier to selft hosted n8n, because the low code possibilities, to create more complex flows, for example connecting to Kafka events

What do you have generating Kafka events?

Re: Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier

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post #23

It's funny that n8n is also in Germany. I moved from Zappier to selft hosted n8n, because the low code possibilities, to create more complex flows, for example connecting to Kafka events

For a German company, there is a surprising lack of legal information on the website.

Re: Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier

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post #23

It's funny that n8n is also in Germany. I moved from Zappier to selft hosted n8n, because the low code possibilities, to create more complex flows, for example connecting to Kafka events

It's good to hear that you moved to a self-hosted solution. I can tell the differences between n8n and Automatisch so that you can compare them better.

- Automatisch is an open-source software where n8n is fair-code licensed. Therefore, it especially differs from the licensing perspective.

- n8n has a canvas-based flow editor, while Automatisch has an editor like Zapier's.

- From the UX perspective, we try our best to keep it so that anyone with and without technical knowledge can easily build workflow automation.

Re: Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier

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post #28

Well, good news first of all. I feel not really ok with zapper’s closed circle

Thanks! That's also the concerns of companies with compliance policy, which can not share the data easily with external systems.

Re: Show HN: Automatisch – Open source workflow automation, an alternative to Zapier

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I currently use n8n, but always great to see more alternatives in this space. One thing that has surprised me is that no one has tried to standardize on the Zapier or IFTTT APIs / SDK implementation to allow for faster deployment of integrations. Seems like there could be a movement here that is akin to how many services use S3 compatible APIs.

ah the ole xkcd 927 strikes again :)
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