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Has anyone tried both? I deployed Tooljet at work because I needed a self-hosted Zapier alternative, but I seem to remember running into some issues and ending up dropping it. I can't be more specific than that as I don't remember, though I think it was related to documentation/getting started quickly, so I was wondering whether others had more experience.

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ToolJet cannot be used as an alternative for Zapier as it doesn't have workflow automation capabilities. Probably this was the reason for dropping.

Ahh, you're right, I remember now. I deployed n8n instead later, thanks.

How is n8n? I've been wanting something like Zapier but I can't seem to do HTTP calls to endpoints not in the list of actions.

It's OK, we don't use that either. I think I had lots of issues trying to set up the GitHub webook and I abandoned that as well, sadly. It was fairly easy to set up the main UI otherwise, though.

A few weeks ago I tried a lot of low code tool(building kit)s.

Tooljet was one of them, but I failed at getting the docker container (following https://docs.tooljet.com/docs/contributing-guide/setup/docke... ) to run.

I can point you to my Harbormaster[1] repo if you want, then you just specify the variables and it runs.

[1]: https://pypi.org/project/docker-harbormaster/

I must admit I haven't used (coming from windows development) docker a lot before, and I was doing it on my Macbook. But all the other tools worked.

So tools like yours existing mean, that there can be trouble having several "docker composed" applications running at the same time? That may explain my (for me inexplicable) errors when trying Tooljet.

No, running multiple apps is fine. In fact, it's what Harbormaster does, it just helps you manage server deployments a bit more easily.

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