[ulrashida]

I was a bit disappointed to see yet another authentication service advertised. I'm still looking for a reasonable open source (or SaaS) framework for managing workflow / action assignment & tracking. It seems like everyone who builds one immediately tries to sell it with a front end rather than a component.

[caloique]

Would love to hear more about the "framework for managing workflow / action assignment & tracking" that you are looking for. Could you please elaborate a bit more?

[ulrashida]

Once you hit a certain scale it is probably inevitable that users will want to assign, receive, and manage actions (or events, or triggers) inside the product. "Workflow" or "work management" orchestrates all of the backend activity that ensures actions can be recorded, zip around to assignees, have statuses updated, comments entered, and so on.

There are a few tools out there like Elsa and Microsoft Rules Engine that stay in the backend, but are still fairly rudimentary in nature. So far as I know there's no "plotly" or similar A-tier framework that solves this problem for workflow. Most groups that have done it instantly monetize it with their own front end (Asana, Monday.com, etc.) which makes it difficult to justify the effort to integrate if you are going for a lighter weight application. Hope that helps clarify!

[tylerrobinson]

This sounds super interesting to me, particularly as an API-first or API-focused product to be used inside other products. I’ve been chewing on a related idea for managing aspects of data compliance. My email is my username at gmail if you’d be up for a conversation about this.

[deepakprab]

I'd love to join the conversation. My email is deepak at boxyhq.com

[caloique]

Indeed, thanks for sharing! We will take a look at it, sounds interesting.