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My thirty years of dodging repetitive work with automation tools

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Re: My thirty years of dodging repetitive work with automation tools

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Post by thomasdub »

Co-Founder of tines here, thanks for all of very valid feedback, there’s loads to think about! I’ll respond to a bunch of the comments individually but the one thing I’d say is try it - it’s way more powerful and flexible than any of the products listed here, although it’s marketed as no-code it’s built by engineers for engineers, with tonnes of enterprise features (Retry on status, connecting to external password vaults, global functions and resources, MTLS, forms, free SSO, curl converter etc.)

As mandatum says above “The UX of Tines beats the pants off ALL of their competitors.” And we can talk about price.

Happy to answer any questions folks have too!

Re: My thirty years of dodging repetitive work with automation tools

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Post by sidpatil »

gorjusborg wrote: post #6
nyx wrote: post #3

This article is a lengthy preamble to an advertisement for a SaaS product, but I'm thankful you at least get to a conclusion before the evangelism begins: there's a basic pattern here, i.e. "get data from X, transform it, and put it in Y", and the tools, systems, and platforms listed are all solutions to the same basic problem. I'm sure there's a use case and a market for this product, but I'd wager that I'm not alon…

What saves me the most time is not "automation" but something I call "Don't waste time learning things that are likely to go away". So yeah, I'll just leverage the skills I've leveraged over and over to make a living.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

Re: My thirty years of dodging repetitive work with automation tools

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Post by superimposition »

thomasdub wrote: post #31

Co-Founder of tines here, thanks for all of very valid feedback, there’s loads to think about! I’ll respond to a bunch of the comments individually but the one thing I’d say is try it - it’s way more powerful and flexible than any of the products listed here, although it’s marketed as no-code it’s built by engineers for engineers, with tonnes of enterprise features (Retry on status, connecting to external password va…

"although it’s marketed as no-code it’s built by engineers for engineers"

Not sure I understand the product positioning

Re: My thirty years of dodging repetitive work with automation tools

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Post by haswell »

superimposition wrote: post #36
thomasdub wrote: post #31

Co-Founder of tines here, thanks for all of very valid feedback, there’s loads to think about! I’ll respond to a bunch of the comments individually but the one thing I’d say is try it - it’s way more powerful and flexible than any of the products listed here, although it’s marketed as no-code it’s built by engineers for engineers, with tonnes of enterprise features (Retry on status, connecting to external password va…

"although it’s marketed as no-code it’s built by engineers for engineers" Not sure I understand the product positioning

As a product manager in this space, this stood out to me too. If I had to speculate:

- “Low code” is the current shiny thing

- These products are not sold to engineers, they’re sold to management types

- Management will only consider bringing in low code tools, because they believe this will save money on devs in the long run

- But that’s never how things play out, and engineers get involved anyway

So by making a “low code tool for engineers”, it seems they’re acknowledging the reality of the low code space and making sure the person who ultimately has to maintain this has the tools to make them successful while doing so…while also acknowledging the reality of selling integration/automation tools in 2022.

I could be way off here, but this is the only way that positioning makes much sense.

Re: My thirty years of dodging repetitive work with automation tools

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Post by Nextgrid »

superimposition wrote: post #36
thomasdub wrote: post #31

Co-Founder of tines here, thanks for all of very valid feedback, there’s loads to think about! I’ll respond to a bunch of the comments individually but the one thing I’d say is try it - it’s way more powerful and flexible than any of the products listed here, although it’s marketed as no-code it’s built by engineers for engineers, with tonnes of enterprise features (Retry on status, connecting to external password va…

"although it’s marketed as no-code it’s built by engineers for engineers" Not sure I understand the product positioning

I guess it's meant to be low-code but as engineers they understand you can't low-code your way out of everything so escape hatches or advanced settings are provided for when "low code" isn't enough.

Re: My thirty years of dodging repetitive work with automation tools

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Post by sytse »

Jedd wrote: post #21

> My main issue with Node-RED is that I have to install, run and maintain it myself. There have been times when I've forgotten which Raspberry Pi it was running on and I've re-flashed the SD card! Installing Node-RED is a low-effort task. Setting up backups of your flows is a tad more effort, but plenty of documentation around this. It also does IMAP, I believe. In an article bemoaning vendor abandonment syndrome, so…

Also, if you don't want to install and maintain Node-Red yourself we're working on a hosted solution with FlowForge https://flowforge.com/

Re: My thirty years of dodging repetitive work with automation tools

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Post by ec109685 »

thomasdub wrote: post #31

Co-Founder of tines here, thanks for all of very valid feedback, there’s loads to think about! I’ll respond to a bunch of the comments individually but the one thing I’d say is try it - it’s way more powerful and flexible than any of the products listed here, although it’s marketed as no-code it’s built by engineers for engineers, with tonnes of enterprise features (Retry on status, connecting to external password va…

Does Conor O'Neill work for Tines? I couldn't figure out if this was an unpaid customer testimonial or just normal content marketing?
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