[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.