Launch HN: Windmill (YC S22) – Turn scripts into internal apps and workflows

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Learn how to turn scripts into internal apps and workflows using Windmill, a fully open-source self-hostable platform

intermediate Published 9 Aug 2022
Action Steps
  1. Install Windmill using Python or Typescript-deno
  2. Build a workflow using Windmill's runtime and scripting capabilities
  3. Integrate Windmill with existing services and tools
  4. Run background jobs using Windmill to automate business logic and analytics
  5. Configure and extend Windmill to fit specific use cases and needs
Who Needs to Know This

Software engineers and DevOps teams can benefit from Windmill to build complex workflows and internal apps, streamlining their operations and integrations

Key Insight

💡 Windmill provides a sweet spot between no-code solutions and roll-your-own scripting, offering flexibility and productivity for building complex workflows and internal apps

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Learn how to turn scripts into internal apps and workflows using Windmill, a fully open-source self-hostable platform

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Ruben here, software engineer, long-time lurker of Hacker News and founder of Windmill. Windmill is a fully open-source self-hostable platform and runtime to build complex workflows, internal apps and integrations using any scripts in Python or Typescript-deno. I am back after having been revealed a bit too soon on HN and miraculously getting into YC ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31272793 ). To build internal apps for ops, integrations between services that cannot talk to each other directly, or to run background jobs that run your business logic and analytics, the two main options today are no-code solutions and old-fashioned, roll-your-own scripting. Both have problems, and our goal with Windmill is to find a new sweet spot between the two. No-code solutions are productive if your problem matches the tool exactly - but it not, they are rigid, hard to extend and quickly become tech debt, annihilating their initial time advantage. Indeed, no-code is just code bu
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