Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes

Re:Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes by theshrike79 on Monday July 01, 2024 @02:03AM (#40842979)

n8n is a similar tool and can be self-hosted: https://n8n.io

And NodeRED is big in the home automation space: https://nodered.org

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Re:Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes by rapnie on Monday July 01, 2024 @06:29AM (#40844392)

n8n "AI-native workflow automation". Wtf.

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Re:Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes by yakito on Monday July 01, 2024 @10:55AM (#40846387)

I totally agree. What are they doing over there? It's funny because some of these companies are just jumping into trends, in this case, AI, probably to lure investors and users. They might be achieving the complete opposite result by doing so. If I didn't know about n8n from before and read the new headline on their homepage, I would have thought the tool was not useful for what I need.

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Re:Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes by theshrike79 on Monday July 01, 2024 @11:59AM (#40847065)

Dunno what they mean about that :D

Nothing in the system says "AI" to me, and I've self-hosted one for a while now

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Re:Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes by ozarker on Monday July 01, 2024 @07:29PM (#40851941)

I love NodeRED, been running it in my homelab for a few years

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Re:Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes by theshrike79 on Thursday July 04, 2024 @06:25AM (#40873782)

It's one of the few situations where "visual programming" actually works really well.

I can't grok the Home Assistant UI for creating any kind of complex automations (and I've been writing software for a living for 25 years), but NodeRED works perfectly for complex branching operations.

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