[rrggrr]

Crowded space, but darn few (if any) shared source or community based solutions. Here's a several examples from a market study I did in 2018: Workato, Apiant, Inegromat, Snaplogic, CloudHQ, Boomi, Tibco, Jitterbit, AWS Lambda, Mulesoft, Tray.io, ApacheNiFi, Stringify, Adeptia, Kotive, Cazoomi, Scribesoft and several more.

I really think the community angle is unique.

[jonjomckay]

I work at Boomi, on their Flow product (similar to this project), and we open source everything in our product, except for our core workflow engine - https://github.com/manywho (our pre-acquisition name if you're wondering).

The community part is hard to generate though... there's a lot of enterprise in the workflow space.

[rrggrr]

StandardLib also has a community, though not sure how big it may be.

Pricing is a key differentiator. My market research included a pricing analysis and Boomi was priced well above Zapier and other similar solutions.

I think there is a LOT of money ceded to less expensive offerings by 10 or 15 providers (including Boomi) all chasing the same enterprise market. I would've expected tiered pricing to emerge to a greater extent, but haven't seen it.

I watch this space very closely.

[tarsinge]

Thank you for sharing this list.

It’s maybe a dumb question but even after looking in some of them I usually fall back on a classic cron job + some Python scripts for automation for the flexibility. What’s the biggest advantage of these services / solutions when you already have some servers available?

[toomuchtodo]

Ability for a non-technical user to implement and manage the automation.

[pkalinowski]

You don't have to learn several APIs to do any integration

[mbesto]

Which one in your opinion allows for extensions of those APIs the best at a SMB price point? My frustration with Zapier is that I if they don't support the trigger, I'm kinda sol. I wanna be able to say "I want to manually add this API call" in a low code environment.

Also - do you mind if I grab some of your time to discuss on the phone? my contact details are in my profile.

Thanks!

[HatchedLake721]

Is your market study available to read anywhere?

[rrggrr]

Feel free to email me for it. My contact info in my profile (soon)

[infinite8s]

Any chance it's still available?