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by ashrafsam 1y ago
Curious if you tried us, Activepieces. We have different ways of sharing "pieces" including merging them to our repo, uploading them to an npm registry or uploading them as private pieces in the platform admin. We're also ver
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Show HN: Largest Open Source MCP Repo (280)(activepieces.com)
5 points by ashrafsam 1y ago|1 comments
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by ashrafsam 2y ago
we're not willing to do anything against the ToS, I haven't checked them yet and we'll do things in compliance with policies, I'm just posting a problem and looking for a valid credible solution. thank you for the note!
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by ashrafsam 2y ago
we've been struggling with verifying our business on Meta and tried many ways to get around it with no success, do you think you can help with it? can you reach out to founders@activepieces.com?
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by ashrafsam 2y ago
congrats on the launch and on the MIT license, this looks interesting. what's the difference between tillywork and plane.so?
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by ashrafsam 3y ago
Thank you for the mention. Founder of Activepieces here ready to help/support with whatever needed - we hang out on Discord all the time.
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Google Sheets and ChatGPT and Activepieces to automate blog posts into WordPress(activepieces.com)
1 points by ashrafsam 4y ago|0 comments
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
Creator of Activepieces here; we do our best to design for the simplest user so we keep our UX as straightforward and non-technical as possible. Our license is very permissive (MIT), and we encourage community collaboration on pieces which
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
We make money out of our cloud version and enterprise edition, I mentioned it in my original post but here is our original plans page on the website: https://www.activepieces.com/plans
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
As a founder of a specific type of the Zapier alternatives, the open source category, this is the thought process we had at Activepieces: We used Zapier for a long period of time and ran into many issues that we weren’t able to fix by ourse
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
Thanks! I'll look into it and see if there is something that can be equally useful and ethical to do :)
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
Thanks for sharing, we're happy to see other open source automation tools! The projects are unrelated but you can find similarities between how OSS projects are generally structured as they get inspired from famous existing examples. A
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
Thanks for opening the issue on GitHun, we'll take it from there!
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
I actually forgot to mention a very important differentiator. If you self-host N8n and you'd like to connect say your Asana or Gmail account, you have to own your own app or get an API key. We have a cloud auth service, that even if yo
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
We think our UX is simpler for users who don't wish to get involved in too much technical understanding. We heard from many users that N8n was a bit too technical to them. Thank you!
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
Some of our users ship 1-click in-app integrations to their users with us, we haven't worked on cases where the whole builder is embedded. Feel free to open an issue about it and we'll discuss it there: https://github.c
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
We appreciate you sharing your thoughts and welcome them. We learn as we go and your comments are inspiring, thank you.
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
Maybe you can find them reusable for your project from our codebase. We're an Angular project on the frontend.
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, we are seeing this pattern indeed. I agree that it doesn't guarantee success, we're inspired by open source apps that compete in being better software rather than only privileged as open source.
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
Yes, this! Trigger.dev lives in your code, we offer a visual flow builder, more like Zapier.
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
Thanks!
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
We saw some evidence that companies will prefer to work with the original developers for their own product's hosting, but I'll keep working on improving my understanding to the open source ecosystem. Very interesting thoughts.
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
Thank you-there is huge similarity between how we think and your comment! How do you define long tail? Fewer users?
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
I agree that we should show some display of how our features compare to existing apps in the market. Thank you for the cost comparison, I'd like to highlight that some apps price on whole flow execution and others on step execution. We
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Launch HN: Activepieces (YC S22) – Open-Source Zapier Alternative
231 points by ashrafsam 4y ago|62 comments
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
Not yet, we're probably on the way there as we're exposing all our pieces (connectors) as typesafe npm packages. But for now, flows are built with the no-code UI. The workaround is to write all your code in one main Code step in a
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
We do this at Activepieces (activepieces.com).
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
Got it, thank you. I think I'm not used to posting the full content in the title and I should improve it. Things like: "Is it popular to think Discord is a spyware in the OSS communities?". I'll learn and get better!
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
I don't post here frequently, does anyone know why this post is flagged? And how that affects my account?
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by ashrafsam 4y ago
As far as I know, WhatsApp is different and that's why you have to back up your messages when you move to a new device. Messages are primarily stored on the device and not on the cloud. "Use it accordingly" is a good way to l

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