Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual programming

Re:Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual pro... by crankylinuxuser on Thursday May 24, 2018 @09:08PM (#17149860)

Greetings!

I'll get straight to the point. I've used Node-Red (https://nodered.org) in building my own IoT network along with automating quite a lot of things. I run my own Node-Red instance locally as well as online. Node-red has 1500 different functionality plugins, including things like "push flow to another node-red installation". Node-red also uses javascript as its frontend and backend. I can share whole code by giving someone the js block - which means that backing up flows is trivial. Sharing is also as easy.

So, I looked at your solution. It seems like a prettified version of Node-red with backup, js, and lack of ecosystem.

So, what's your buy-in? What're you doing better than a spare VPS running node-red? Not everyone is going to install and maintain a server.... but you're here on HN. I'd say that 95% or higher could get Nodered up and running here.

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Re:Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual pro... by statictype on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:28PM (#17150195)

I suppose with that logic you don’t even need node red. You could just put your requirements into a .js file.

What’s your buy-in? What are you doing with node red that can’t be done with a text editor and npm?

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Re:Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual pro... by crankylinuxuser on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:44AM (#17153610)

That's certainly reducto-ad-absurdum if iv'e ever seen one.

They're both in the realm of "graphical programming language in the browser". One is a pay-per-$something, and the other is libre/gratis.

And sure, you could use backend js to write scripts to do $thing, but requires a lot of setup to work with different APIs. So absolutely no, js+text editor is nowhere near the same.

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Re:Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual pro... by jermaustin1 on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:01PM (#17150072)

My time is more valuable than running, managing, maintaining, and monitoring a VPS just to save $180/mo.

If I've saved 1.5 hours, it's paid for itself, and I've been freed up to be productive on other things, like watching YouTube.

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Re:Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual pro... by pier25 on Thursday May 24, 2018 @11:24PM (#17150384)

With cloud functions you don’t really need to do any of that

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Re:Show HN: Parabola.io – Automate your work with visual pro... by mwexler on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:19AM (#17153376)

Thanks to the pointer for Node Red; I saw it on my Pi and forgot about it. It's pretty impressive (esp since it's got IBM all over it).

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