Show HN: An open source Zapier, automations made simple

Show HN: An open source Zapier, automations made simple(github.com)

4 points by _lars 1 year ago | 4 comments

Howdy HN! I'm Lars, one of the founders @ SVVARM, a platform hoping to bring the power of AI and automation to everyone!

Over the last few years, I have witnessed how complicated, convoluted, and costly automation solutions have become. Around 90% of users on Zapier have some form of developer experience, making it very developer oriented. It can often take days and a lot of trial and error just trying to get any automations up and running.

SVVARM hopes to alleviate some of the main problems that are core to those looking to automate:

- Generating automations with natural language prompting

- Exposing these automations with simple to set up triggers (email, message, slack, or API calls)

- Connecting to all your apps with a click of a button or a paste of an API key

- Enabling your automations with tabular data from spreadsheets or databases

- Allowing for customizable nodes that can be written in Python (or using code generated by AI)

Right now, SVVARM is only available via our online offering (waitlisted, but free). We hope to bring the engine to open source as soon as possible. Check out the video of our HackerNews Report demo on our Github! Or try sending your resume to svvarmbot@gmail.com with the subject 'Resume' to see one of our automations in action!

Let us know what you want to see more of, and if you have any feedback or roasts, please don't hesitate to drop them below!

To help push this project along, feel free to join us in Discord.

mutant 1 year ago |

Windmill, n8n, pipedream, trigger, zapier, make, Workato, UiPath, Pipefy, OnTask, Integrately, Comindware, Aiwozo, Onspring

It's almost like we're trying to solve for something ..

_lars 1 year ago | |

I would say that all of those solutions are pretty technical heavy, often being touted as "developer platforms" or "for technical teams." We're trying to help people with little to no developer experience get from 0 to 1 in automations much quicker and easier.

ezekg 1 year ago |

Why not wait to post until after you open source it? Seems weird to post an empty GitHub repo, but maybe I'm just not in the market for what's offered.

_lars 1 year ago | |

You're right, it may have been a bit premature. Open source is the end goal, and we're not there yet. If anything, was hoping to get some motivation to make it happen quicker.