[diggan]

> I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before back to English, just for kicks.

Yahoo Pipes was one of the greatest services I used, just when I started getting into programming. Maybe it was so cool because I was naive, but I really miss being able to pipe services together in the same way. Anyone know of any similar attempts that is open source + offers a hosted version with paid plans?

[onli]

Not sure about open source and paid hosting, but there is node-red, https://nodered.org/, which is open source and easy to get started with. Combining stuff is something Zapier excels in, https://zapier.com/, and the free tier can suffice for some tasks (not open source). You could also try my attempt at a spiritual pipes successor, https://www.pipes.digital/ (but it's also not open source). If there is something missing there to reproduce how you used Yahoo Pipes I'd definitely be interested in hearing from you, so I can restore it :)

[diggan]

So, the requirements of open-source + have entity with paid hosting are both equally important. First one to ensure I can continue using whatever I setup on the hosting, in case the entity behind it cannot. And the paid hosting is important because it gives better odds towards the service actually sticking around.

What I likes with Yahoo Pipes compared to NodeRED (at least as far as I looked at NodeRED, I might be wrong) is that Yahoo Pipes worked out-of-the-box with services out of the box. I seem to remember that you could use the Google Search API for example, with Yahoo Pipes and pipe that into other things. That's what Zapier does as well, but with less flexibility than NodeRED.

So I guess my dream would be something like the integrations provided by Zapier but with the UI and flexibility of NodeRED.

Haven't seen pipes.digital before, I'll take a look as it looks interesting, but for anything serious, open source is a hard requirement (gotta learn from the Yahoo Pipes history :) )

[r-w]

I don’t think those requirements will be met until people like us who miss it put our money where our mouth is ;)

[diggan]

I think people like us (at least me) miss a lot of things, some more important than others, and we have to carefully choose what we spend out time on :)

[onli]

I'm about to open source it now. Which means I just did, but haven't announced it yet. https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes now contains a very new version you could run locally.

r-w is right though: More users paying for pipes would allow me to invest more time into it and have more requirements covered.

[routerl]

I haven't used it but https://n8n.io/

It reminds me of zapier, which reminds me of Yahoo pipes.

[ivanfon]

From a quick search, it looks like someone is recreating Yahoo Pipes here: https://www.pipes.digital/

Unfortunately, it looks like it's not open-source, their Github repo is only for bug reports: https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes

[egfx]

Yeah as I mentioned https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21641615

A Yahoo pipes! clone really needs some open source love. Too bad the maintainer is more interested in making it a one man SaaS.

The video is interesting because I thought he was talking specifically to me about the http://2fb.me product. But anyway I think this is a reminder that even though API’s have gotten more restrictive that more creative ways of using them bubble to the surface. :)

[onli]

> A Yahoo pipes! clone really needs some open source love. Too bad the maintainer is more interested in making it a one man SaaS.

I guess that's fair.

I want(ed) to run Pipes as an SaaS because I think that model would be highly advantageous to me, and that would be very advantageous for Pipes. But that with the predecessors history as background this approach is a critical concern is something I do understand. I will now try to have my cake and eat it too: https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes contains a new FOSS version that is meant to exist in parallel with pipes.digital, as long as that model works out. So worst case now is this FOSS approach fails, and then only the SaaS would die, not the software.

[reubano]

Check out my project, riko. https://github.com/nerevu/riko Open source, but no hosted plan.

[erikig]

For a self hosted Yahoo Pipes alternative I’d recommend checking out Huginn - it’s been featured on HN a couple of times and the creator is tectonic@HN

https://github.com/huginn/huginn

[zwily]

I don’t, but Node Red is giving me the same fun feeling I had with Yahoo Pipes, but for Home Automation.

[hundchenkatze]

Dark is similar. I think they're still in private beta, but I got my invite pretty quickly.

https://darklang.github.io/docs/introduction

[akavel]

I believe https://luna-lang.org has plans like this, though they're kinda definitely not hurrying things...