Titanoboa
Dev tools
workflow automation
SHOW HN2020
279points
79comments
#153of 3,028 in 2020
Top 6%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
9 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 6 mixed, 9 critical, out of 41 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.
Idea: 4 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive work for one person
From 2 comments
Impressive feat of engineering for one person! But is it really an alternative to Zapier? I mean, while Zapier is obviously about automation, it always felt that their big…
kevsim on HNThis looks really well done, newcrobuzon. Very impressed. I especially love your web UI. It makes it very easy to start experimenting with workflows without the overhead of…
zomglings on HN
Web UI makes it easy to experiment
From 1 comment
This looks really well done, newcrobuzon. Very impressed. I especially love your web UI. It makes it very easy to start experimenting with workflows without the overhead of…
zomglings on HN
Visual diagram tool is well done
From 1 comment
This looks very interesting. The visual component in particular seems very well done. I have a deep interest in DAG-structured ETL tooling and had a couple of questions that the…
slotrans on HN
Objections
Name is hard to say
From 2 comments
First impression: rename it now while the cost is low. The name is unwieldy.
caymanjim on HNTi-ta-no-bo-a 5 syllables. Agreed that this is unwieldy to say in normal speech.
everfree on HN
AGPL license is poorly perceived
From 1 comment
That is a fair criticism, I am aware of the AGPL license shortcomings. I just picked up the more restrictive license at the beginning - being a sole funder and not working on…
newcrobuzon on HN
Secrets handling on public instances is unclear
From 1 comment
This looks really well done, newcrobuzon. Very impressed. I especially love your web UI. It makes it very easy to start experimenting with workflows without the overhead of…
zomglings on HN
Screen reader accessibility problem with headline output
From 1 comment
I'd like you to listen to this file, which is your first 'headline' read by `say`: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fanpqs8lv2d9nvl/say.m4a?dl=0 Now imagine yourself in the shoes of a…
zacwest on HN
Requests
Resume partially failed workflows
From 1 comment
This looks very interesting. The visual component in particular seems very well done. I have a deep interest in DAG-structured ETL tooling and had a couple of questions that the…
slotrans on HN
Run workflows from command line without a server
From 1 comment
This looks very interesting. The visual component in particular seems very well done. I have a deep interest in DAG-structured ETL tooling and had a couple of questions that the…
slotrans on HN
Support other JVM languages for scripting
From 1 comment
Being a JVM friendly tool, it would be great to unlock other JVM syntaxes to allow scripting in any lanugage.. Jython for Python, Quercus for PHP, JRuby for Ruby, etc.
j45 on HN
Clearer pricing for self-hosted HA and clustering
From 1 comment
Honestly I really like this, I can't wait to use it, but my concerns are around certain features being behind a paywall, especially HA and Clustering on the self-hosted version.…
WrtCdEvrydy on HN
Questions
How does it compare to n8n, Prefect, Cadence/Temporal, or OpenIntegrationHub
From 4 comments
Nice work! How does it compare to n8n? [0] n8n is the closest OSS alternative to Zapier I've seen so far. [0] https://n8n.io/
PascalW on HNHow does this compare to Prefect? https://medium.com/the-prefect-blog/why-not-airflow-4cfa423299c4
ForHackernews on HNHow does it compare with Cadence/Temporal?
itpragmatik on HNHow does this compare with https://github.com/openintegrationhub/openintegrationhub ?
phonon on HN
Is it really an alternative to Zapier given integration count
From 2 comments
Impressive feat of engineering for one person! But is it really an alternative to Zapier? I mean, while Zapier is obviously about automation, it always felt that their big…
kevsim on HNI've used Zapier a fair amount and I wrote an article about Airflow so I have a fairly good understanding of that too. I would never really consider them alternatives though? To…
sixhobbits on HN
Alternatives named
Zapier
From 2 comments
I've used Zapier a fair amount and I wrote an article about Airflow so I have a fairly good understanding of that too. I would never really consider them alternatives though? To…
sixhobbits on HNImpressive feat of engineering for one person! But is it really an alternative to Zapier? I mean, while Zapier is obviously about automation, it always felt that their big…
kevsim on HN
Airflow
From 2 comments
I've used Zapier a fair amount and I wrote an article about Airflow so I have a fairly good understanding of that too. I would never really consider them alternatives though? To…
sixhobbits on HNVery true. We really should stop overloading the term Workflow in software. As of now these are the broad categories that abuse the term workflow. 1. State Machines For example…
lewisjoe on HN
n8n
From 1 comment
Nice work! How does it compare to n8n? [0] n8n is the closest OSS alternative to Zapier I've seen so far. [0] https://n8n.io/
PascalW on HN
Prefect
From 1 comment
How does this compare to Prefect? https://medium.com/the-prefect-blog/why-not-airflow-4cfa423299c4
ForHackernews on HN
Camunda
From 1 comment
Keep converging and building. I have been experimenting with combinations of huggin, camunda, airflow and others to try and achieve an integrated workflow/state/process…
j45 on HN