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As a founder of a specific type of the Zapier alternatives, the open source category, this is the thought process we had at Activepieces: We used Zapier for a long period of time and ran into many issues that we weren’t able to fix by ourselves because of the closed app ecosystem, and had to pay increasing bills for simple tasks that could cost literally zero if we do them in code. Later, we came across many people with similar problems and more; like not being able to process their data on their own machines, and that’s were we got inspired. This is not the answer to your question, the real answer imo is that there is a rising movement for open-source alternatives that are loud about being alternatives to proprietary software, that’s why you read it every week very explicitly. To clarify this, if you go to all of the other proprietary tools like Make, Tray, Workato, Automate and so, you won’t see “Zapier alternative” in their headline. So the trend is about open source alternatives rather than Zapier alternatives. A quick search for open source alternatives to Notion, Airtable, Retool, Google Analytics, Tableau, Amplitude will put this before your eyes! |
And what is your business model?