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Re: Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative

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Mainly Rails. Some Go.

Cool. What did you use Go for that rails couldn't do (or do well/scale), if you mind me asking?

First version of the distribution API was a Go microservice. But that microservice is now deprecated and its replacement was rolled into the main Rails app. That microservice streamed large files (so I went with Go), but I nixed the streaming and Go was no longer needed.

The CLI is also written in Go.

Re: Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative

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post #141

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Cool. What did you use Go for that rails couldn't do (or do well/scale), if you mind me asking?

First version of the distribution API was a Go microservice. But that microservice is now deprecated and its replacement was rolled into the main Rails app. That microservice streamed large files (so I went with Go), but I nixed the streaming and Go was no longer needed. The CLI is also written in Go.

Thanks!

Have you contemplated making the backend open source or at least source-available ("Look but don't touch", you may only use the hosted service, etc)? Would love to take a look at the implementation

Re: Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative

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post #141

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First version of the distribution API was a Go microservice. But that microservice is now deprecated and its replacement was rolled into the main Rails app. That microservice streamed large files (so I went with Go), but I nixed the streaming and Go was no longer needed. The CLI is also written in Go.

Thanks! Have you contemplated making the backend open source or at least source-available ("Look but don't touch", you may only use the hosted service, etc)? Would love to take a look at the implementation

*looks around*

I haven’t announced it yet -- but yes. Working towards open sourcing everything. :)

Re: Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative

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post #144

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Thanks! Have you contemplated making the backend open source or at least source-available ("Look but don't touch", you may only use the hosted service, etc)? Would love to take a look at the implementation

*looks around* I haven’t announced it yet -- but yes. Working towards open sourcing everything. :)

Oh wow!! That's actually amazing! Thank you so much.

I promise I'll keep the secret till then :)

Re: Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative

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At first I thought that a code alternative for a no-code solution like zapier was counterintuitive. But as an engineer using Zapier (for the first time) these past few months I got so frustrated by the lack of an option to just write some "if" or just 2 lines of code to make things work the way I want them. I think trigger.dev nails it. This is exactly what I needed.

Think that's why they also have built Pipedream.com (not affiliated)

Re: Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative

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post #17

At first I thought that a code alternative for a no-code solution like zapier was counterintuitive. But as an engineer using Zapier (for the first time) these past few months I got so frustrated by the lack of an option to just write some "if" or just 2 lines of code to make things work the way I want them. I think trigger.dev nails it. This is exactly what I needed.

Trigger.dev looks like it would be amazing if you want a simplified temporal that is still 100% code based and exclusively in Typescript. If you are looking for a Zapier-for-developer experience, we took an alternative route at Windmill of allowing Python/Javascript/Go/Bash as steps but the workflows are still GUI based: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/main/imgs/win... Despite them being GUI based, you…

Interesting. Here's a previous discussion about Windmill:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31272793 (9 months ago)

Re: Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative

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I've spoken to many IT professionals over the years that have been frustrated with BetterCloud. I've just been waiting for someone to launch BestCloud as a competitor.

Maybe BestCloud was the OG, usurped by BetterCloud.

I used to joke someone should make a better exchange mail client called ‘Lookout’.
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