Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) – Open-Source Zapier Alternative • Hacker News Board

Re: Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) – Open-Source Zapier Alternative

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Post by rayshan » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:10 PM UTC

Looks great! Is there a way to trigger events based on Slack mentions? I'd like to build a GPT-3 Slack bot that answers poeple's questions in Slack.

Edit: filed an issue here: https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces/issues/513

Re: Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) – Open-Source Zapier Alternative

#42

Post by ashrafsam » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 10:17 PM UTC

rayshan wrote: post #41

Looks great! Is there a way to trigger events based on Slack mentions? I'd like to build a GPT-3 Slack bot that answers poeple's questions in Slack. Edit: filed an issue here: https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces/issues/513

Thanks for opening the issue on GitHun, we'll take it from there!

Re: Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) – Open-Source Zapier Alternative

#43

Post by WatchDog » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 11:29 PM UTC

Ah man this is fantastic.

I'm literally half way through building something similar for our own saas.

Love what you are doing with authentication/connections to other services.

Re: Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) – Open-Source Zapier Alternative

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Post by moabuaboud » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 11:59 PM UTC

WatchDog wrote: post #43

Ah man this is fantastic. I'm literally half way through building something similar for our own saas. Love what you are doing with authentication/connections to other services.

I am delighted that you noticed the piece framework design.

The connectors have no dependency on the core. We are currently working on releasing each connector as a separate npm package, which can be utilized in any codebase.

If this is useful for your particular needs, or if you have any suggestions/ questions, please let me know.

If you are interested join our discord, we do the announcements there.

Re: Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) – Open-Source Zapier Alternative

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Post by WatchDog » Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 12:33 AM UTC

Followed the instructions to run it locally, found a bug, you can't send a http get request without a body, then tried to make the field not required and run again, that's when I realized that the docker compose file doesn't actually run the local code, it just pulls from published images.

I see there is a docker-compose.dev file, but there aren't any instructions on actually getting local development to work, should add those.

Re: Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) – Open-Source Zapier Alternative

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Post by dreadlordbone » Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 12:59 AM UTC

My biggest concern with these zapier alternatives is how easy is it to add an integration for services that aren't already in the system? I use several products which have APIs but are too small for n8n or this to have it baked in. Is there good documentation for this? A boilerplate "new plugin" setup so I can add my own?

Re: Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) – Open-Source Zapier Alternative

#47

Post by molsongolden » Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 1:03 AM UTC

moabuaboud wrote: post #38

toomuchtodo wrote: post #5

Congrats on the launch! Huge TAM so there’s lots of room for a healthy ecosystem of competitors in no code low code. My suggestions for succeeding in this ecosystem: * The value is in the long tail. Major services will integrate with other major services on their own. Make it easy to integrate with the smaller services. * Enterprise features is where the rev is at, you want to be able to get into Corp customers who a…

Are there any programmatic methods to detect integration breakages? Simply relying on unit/integration testing with mock endpoint is not effective, as it cannot capture changes made by third parties. Being notified of breakages is a solution, but not the most ideal one. I've considered sourcing open API specs, like APIsguru.com, to scan for changes, but I was wondering if you have any other suggestions.

Are you thinking of misc. sync errors here (auth issues, temporary downtime, etc.) or API changes?

For API changes: It's not super scalable but I've used a changelog monitoring chat (Slack/Zulip/Discord) channel. Automated notifications for changelog updates for all integrated APIs. Maybe there's an assigned person for each integration and that person scans the changelog updates for their assigned services then emoji reacts to the notification messages when they have been reviewed and cleared (they create issues for required changes or confirm no changes needed).

Re: Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) – Open-Source Zapier Alternative

#48

Post by alalani1 » Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 3:58 AM UTC

mderazon wrote: post #30

Could I use this to embed inside my app to allow my customers create integrations flows to other products, from my app ?

You might want to checkout https://www.rollout.com for that (founder here). Send me a message if you're early stage/open source and I'd be happy to hook you up with a free account (email in profile).