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Proud Pipes user. Does the web need something like this today and in what form? All the replacements that are offered pale in comparison to excitement it was t

Proud Pipes user. Does the web need something like this today and in what form? All the replacements that are offered pale in comparison to excitement it was to use Pipes 15 years ago. Are we simply past that point?

troyvit 3y ago
I skipped to chapter 9 in the article ("Clogged"), and it looked like Pipes failed because it didn't have a large enough team or a well-defined mission. As a result they couldn't offer a super robust product that would lure in enterprise users. "You could not purchase some number of guaranteed-to-work Pipes calls per month" is the quote from the article. The reason I think that interesting is because that's the model these days for everything from AI tokens to Monday.com seats. It makes me feel like Pipes was before its time. That said I've been collecting different "business glue" products that are similar to Pipes. To me, like you say, they aren't as interesting, exciting and intuitive as Pipes was, but maybe it just takes a little more digging. I tried to focus on open source tools but some aren't. - n8n io: https://n8n.io/integrations/mondaycom/ https://n8n.io/integrations/mondaycom/ - Node-RED: https://nodered.org/ https://nodered.org/ (just read about this one in this thread) - trigger dev: trigger.dev - automatisch.io: https://automatisch.io/docs/ https://automatisch.io/docs/ - Activepieces: https://www.activepieces.com/docs/getting-started/introduction https://www.activepieces.com/docs/getting-started/introducti... - Huginn: https://github.com/huginn/huginn https://github.com/huginn/huginn - budibase: https://budibase.com/ https://budibase.com/ - windmill: https://www.windmill.dev/ https://www.windmill.dev/ - tooljet: https://www.tooljet.com/workflows https://www.tooljet.com/workflows - Bracket: https://www.usebracket.com/pricing https://www.usebracket.com/pricing (just SalesForce <-> PostgreSQL) - Zapier: zapier.com/ Anyway I hope some of these are fun!
- Towaway69 3y ago
  Big Node-RED fan here. For me it has the perfect combination between visual flow based programming[0] and textual coding. It makes a great effort in making visual programming incredible efficient. Node-RED does great job in implementing the ideas of FBP in visual manner. [0] = https://jpaulm.github.io/fbp/ https://jpaulm.github.io/fbp/
- kentbrew 3y ago
  "You could not purchase some number of guaranteed-to-work calls per month" was true for any other offering from the Yahoo! Developer Network.
coldacid 3y ago
There are so many quality of life improvements I could make for myself if only Pipes was still around. Nothing I've encountered since has ever matched or beat it.

troyvit 3y ago

I skipped to chapter 9 in the article ("Clogged"), and it looked like Pipes failed because it didn't have a large enough team or a well-defined mission. As a result they couldn't offer a super robust product that would lure in enterprise users. "You could not purchase some number of guaranteed-to-work Pipes calls per month" is the quote from the article. The reason I think that interesting is because that's the model these days for everything from AI tokens to Monday.com seats. It makes me feel like Pipes was before its time. That said I've been collecting different "business glue" products that are similar to Pipes. To me, like you say, they aren't as interesting, exciting and intuitive as Pipes was, but maybe it just takes a little more digging. I tried to focus on open source tools but some aren't. - n8n io: https://n8n.io/integrations/mondaycom/ https://n8n.io/integrations/mondaycom/ - Node-RED: https://nodered.org/ https://nodered.org/ (just read about this one in this thread) - trigger dev: trigger.dev - automatisch.io: https://automatisch.io/docs/ https://automatisch.io/docs/ - Activepieces: https://www.activepieces.com/docs/getting-started/introduction https://www.activepieces.com/docs/getting-started/introducti... - Huginn: https://github.com/huginn/huginn https://github.com/huginn/huginn - budibase: https://budibase.com/ https://budibase.com/ - windmill: https://www.windmill.dev/ https://www.windmill.dev/ - tooljet: https://www.tooljet.com/workflows https://www.tooljet.com/workflows - Bracket: https://www.usebracket.com/pricing https://www.usebracket.com/pricing (just SalesForce <-> PostgreSQL) - Zapier: zapier.com/ Anyway I hope some of these are fun!

Towaway69 3y ago
Big Node-RED fan here. For me it has the perfect combination between visual flow based programming[0] and textual coding. It makes a great effort in making visual programming incredible efficient. Node-RED does great job in implementing the ideas of FBP in visual manner. [0] = https://jpaulm.github.io/fbp/ https://jpaulm.github.io/fbp/
kentbrew 3y ago
"You could not purchase some number of guaranteed-to-work calls per month" was true for any other offering from the Yahoo! Developer Network.

coldacid 3y ago

There are so many quality of life improvements I could make for myself if only Pipes was still around. Nothing I've encountered since has ever matched or beat it.