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Would there be any demand for an open-source, more code-oriented version of IFTTT for the devs around here?

So still the same concepts of inputs -> outputs, but you would self-host on AWS Lambda / Azure Functions / etc. It would also have more flexibility to add custom code if needed to transform data too.



Not open-source, rather fair-code licensed (so you are not allowed to commercialize it but use it totally for free and the source-code is available) but apart from that you can try: https://n8n.io https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n

(disclaimer: I am the author)


I strongly support you guys for the license you use, its sad that though the source is open people expect it to be licensed in a way, so that any mega corporate can just rip you off cough aws cough. I wish you guys get the attention you deserve.


Thank you very much! It is very appreciated. Yes, think it is never easy if you take a new and different approach, but I am sure it will be worth it. Not just for us, also for other people that think the same way.


Yeah it is also very decent license, nothing wrong with it.


https://github.com/huginn/huginn

https://nodered.org/

Those projects already exist, you are probably better off contributiing to existing ones rather than creating a new one.


>Would there be any demand for an open-source, more code-oriented version of IFTTT for the devs around here?

Probably but there's so many IFTTT alternatives around (including the referenced node-red). If you're more tech savvy, you can either stand something up yourself, or you can use something like glitch (https://glitch.com/) to create some quick webhook adapters.


Isn't that the node-red solution talked about in the article?


The problem is, a lot of IFTTT hooks don't exist as public API endpoints.

For example, you can't do anything all with Wyze hardware directly


There are existing open-source solutions that from what I hear work quite well. I would personally like to see a low-cost hosted version of one of these so I can use it without ever having to think about keeping it running.


Basically Node-RED?




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