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

#71

For people who are building durable workflows. You should definitely checkout temporal [1]. It is production ready, you can implement pretty much same using the original SDK of the underline services. [1] https://temporal.io/

Their pricing model is much preferred: https://temporal.io/cloud

i.e. pay for what resources you use instead of how many users you have. This is how we pay for AWS/GCP/Azure. I think a lot of dev SaaS could / should go this way.

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

#73

For people who are building durable workflows. You should definitely checkout temporal [1]. It is production ready, you can implement pretty much same using the original SDK of the underline services. [1] https://temporal.io/

Not sure why everyone says it's too complex, maybe people get scared by the word idempotence.

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

#74

Jumping from free to $50/mo feels like there's a 4.99/9.99 plan missing somewhere. Just because you have 3 people on your team doesn't mean you can casually spare $50 a month, that's a lot of money to the vast majority =( Especially since a project going from one to three, and in the rare case four or five, folks is pretty common, but hitting 10 team members is a serious project milestone. At 10, you're probably also…

^ this here is the reason why I never want to build SaaS products for developers. If you use and benefit from a product that saves time for 3 (usually the most highest paid) employees in the business (developers), you either need re-evaluate how much value this product provides or re-evaluate your business plan.

You have to account that not everyone is working in the US. For someone earning 15k$ per year, 600$ is not little money.

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

#75

For people who are building durable workflows. You should definitely checkout temporal [1]. It is production ready, you can implement pretty much same using the original SDK of the underline services. [1] https://temporal.io/

Their pricing model is much preferred: https://temporal.io/cloud i.e. pay for what resources you use instead of how many users you have. This is how we pay for AWS/GCP/Azure. I think a lot of dev SaaS could / should go this way.

And if you don't store much inside the workflows themselves - it's quite cheap even if you have hundreds of thousands invocations.

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

#76
post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their pricing model is much preferred: https://temporal.io/cloud i.e. pay for what resources you use instead of how many users you have. This is how we pay for AWS/GCP/Azure. I think a lot of dev SaaS could / should go this way.

And if you don't store much inside the workflows themselves - it's quite cheap even if you have hundreds of thousands invocations.

1M invocations looks like $25, which is really cheap

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

#78

Either "trigger" is a blacklisted word or your domain is on a list somewhere, because my company has this url blocked under the "weapons" category. That's unfortunate.

I'm not see the site blacklisted, I'm outside of usa btw, but inability asume is probably internal policy

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

#79
post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

^ this here is the reason why I never want to build SaaS products for developers. If you use and benefit from a product that saves time for 3 (usually the most highest paid) employees in the business (developers), you either need re-evaluate how much value this product provides or re-evaluate your business plan.

You have to account that not everyone is working in the US. For someone earning 15k$ per year, 600$ is not little money.

Please tell me where I can hire developers for $15k per year.

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

#80

Either "trigger" is a blacklisted word or your domain is on a list somewhere, because my company has this url blocked under the "weapons" category. That's unfortunate.

Would be willing to bet your connection has an over aggressive blocking system going on
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