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I am working on a similar project called Taskflow.io that is aimed at more backend business oriented tasks. It can do similar things through an interface flowchart editors where you make the actual flowchart that gets executed. I would still consider it a public beta. I would love your feedback.

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Will this be provided As-A-Service, or will it be a downloadable product that can be deployed in-house? This is exactly what I have been looking for for a while, but there's absolutely zero chance we're going to send any of our business information to a remote service.

It's as a service now. I've had other people express the same kind of concern with data security. We can talk about a self hosted version.

I've wondered about this quite a bit, since I run computationally intensive analysis on sensitive data, and some of the same thinking would apply in this context.

In brief, I could provide an appliance on something as trivial as a Raspi that updates itself over VPN, and would let you run the services on your own systems. Would that work for you if one of these providers did the same?

Obviously we could do better with a custom system deployed onsite, but the idea is to simplify the process and potentially eliminate cost of getting started; similar to Square sending out card readers.

It depends. We've got pretty strict security requirements as we operate in the medical and government sector. A black box appliance or something that auto-updates outside of normal patching rounds is probably out of the question.

Hey, I tried it, but I got stuck trying to set up a webhook, as there's nothing in the dropdown. Here is a screenshot:

http://shadowcatcher.mindcast.com/clips/1397535410d5p7t6ut3s...

Crowded space... We're trying to go the same thing for business intelligence applications with a product we're launching called flowreports.co...

There are other companies doing workflow automation, but their products seem clunky and not aimed at web-services, which companies are increasingly relying on. I want to be the IFTTT of back room office tasks. I want anyone in an organization to be able to create a workflow to automate some mundane process they have at their job. I would love any feedback you have of Taskflow.io so I can get my product to that level. Here is a link for any feedback you might have http://eddie.taskflow.io/start_process/201?return_url=http%3...

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