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This looks great, congrats on the launch! I am interested in a platform that bundles many pre-built integrations to various services that I could wire up through code and execute on my customers' behalf. Essentially, a way for me to present my customers with a plethora of integrations out of the box without having to build them all myself. This seems like it's moving in that direction and I saw another comment where you mentioned workflow execution on customers' behalf in the future which is great!

How does this compare to something like Prefect?

If there are any other tools folks would suggest to achieve what I'm looking for, I'd love to hear about them!

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We also do this at windmill: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill

This is interesting, thanks for sharing! It took me a little bit to process all the content but I think I get it :)

If I'm reading correctly, to build features on top of Windmill requires the commercial license even if self-hosting which comes with a price of $.002/ computation where a computation is 1 second of processing on 1 CPU with 2GB ram.

One of my main usecases would be to create flows to pull data from various sources. The speed of such processes often depends on the 3rd party APIs - so it wouldn't be unheard of for a process to take 30+ min to pull a bunch of data where much of the time is spent on data transfer or waiting for the service. Does that mean it would cost me .002 * 60 * 30 = $3.60 for one 30 min data sync? That's not including any downstream etl I might do that would potentially multiply the cost. Curious if that's accurate or if I'm misinterpreting something.

You do not need the enterprise license to run this self-hosted, only if you want the commercial license version of AGPLv3 + support/SLA and some high scale plugins like our dependency cache syncing.

Your calculation is correct and I agree it is a bit of a steep pricing. Most companies have small scripts to run and we wanted to bill according to the value they were extracting of the product and do transparent enterprise pricing instead of the usual "contact us". Unfortunately, it is not a one-size-fits-all situation. For data heavy/IO bound workflows, we should bill per number of GB transferred rather than per computation. In any case, we are very open to do price capped contracts depending on your use case: ruben@windmill.dev

Makes sense, thanks for the reply! Pricing may be steep compared to diy but as a comparison, Airbyte Cloud seems to charge $10/GB or $15/1M rows transferred[0] which seems like it would be even more expensive.

I'm doing some more research but will keep ya'll in mind and reach out if I have more questions!

[0] https://airbyte.com/pricing

> Essentially, a way for me to present my customers with a plethora of integrations out of the box without having to build them all myself.

This is an itch I'm waiting for someone to scratch

We do exactly this at https://integration.app, including ability to manage flows via API.

We are focused on CRMs / Marketing tools for the next couple of months though.

We do this at Activepieces (activepieces.com).

Is there an API or SDK for creating/managing flows? I want the flexibility to programmatically wire these integrations together rather than a nocode UI

Additionally, this seems to rely on you inputting your credentials. How would that work for a usecase where my customers are the ones who provide the credentials?

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 any flow. Our web IDE is VS Code so it's not too much different, and we can be self-hosted.

On the UI, you can customize the credentials with a connection variable which is what enables in-app product integrations. We have users who are doing this. Shoot me an email if you'd like to explore our approach: ash@activepieces.com

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