Hacker GitHub

← All repos

windmill-labs/windmill

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 18,357 Rust

Code-first platform for workflows, apps and AI agents, on the fastest self-hostable orchestrator (benchmarked against Airflow, Prefect and Temporal). Business teams build with AI, engineers control what ships. Open-source alternative to Lovable, Retool and n8n.

90 mentions on Hacker News by 22 people: 5 stories, 85 comments · first 2022-03-13 · latest 2026-09-23

Mentions per year 90 mentions · busiest year 2023 (50)
20082026
AllStoriesComments NewestTopOldest
  1. …to serve different enterprise needs but needless to say, I wish you guys were not so good. [1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2023-01-19 · in Show HN: Retool Mobile
  2. Indeed: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/3f318b4ac4170... :)
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2023-01-15 · in Single-file scripts that download their dependencies
  3. …you can just copy-paste and call the main function of, that's what windmill's hub is for [3] [1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill [2]: https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools [3]: https://hub.windmill.dev/
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2023-01-15 · in Single-file scripts that download their dependencies
  4. …has support for SSO (GitHub/Google/Microsoft/GitLab) and any custom ones in the open source version https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill#oauth-for-self-hos...
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2023-01-12 · in Show HN: ToolJet 2.0 – Open-source alternative to Power Apps and Retool
  5. …get replaced by redis but for a scale of less than 10k/s jobs, it scale incredibly well. [1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-12-10 · in Just use Postgres for everything
  6. …they might be able to work straight out of the box for orchest for the python ones. nb: author of https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-11-30 · in Launch HN: Patterns (YC S21) – A much faster way to build and deploy data apps
  7. You missed an "l" with 1. https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/ Even for the simplest and my own sites, I usually typed it out in the browser and copy-paste. :-)
    comment by Brajeshwar · 2022-11-14 · in Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
  8. Correct URL to windmill on GitHub https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill (Or @rubenfiszel could edit their post)
    comment by raju · 2022-11-14 · in Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
  9. …RBAC, a timeseries processor, data lineage, versioning of the code, a webeditor and so on. [1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-11-14 · in Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
  10. …queries. In any case, congrats, I have played with the tool and you guys did an amazing job. [1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill [2]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/pull/886
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-11-14 · in Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
  11. …open-source, one can see how we are able to pull it off [4][5]. [1]: https://windmill.dev [2]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill [3]: https://app.windmill.dev [4]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/main/frontend...…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-10-27 · in Deno 1.27
  12. …our helm-charts for easier self-hosted deployments: [4] You can also try it for free at [5] [1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill [2]: https://hub.windmill.dev [3]: https://windmill.dev [4]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmil…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-09-29 · in Airplane.dev raises $32M in Series B funding
  13. …system implemented from scratch using nsjail for sandboxing and a fork for each process. [1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-09-27 · in Workerd: Open-source Cloudflare workers runtime
  14. At windmill ( https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill ), our whole frontend is in svelte, we love it, the performance are second to none and the dev experience is great. But finding svelte dev is proving itself harder than I thought. So…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-09-08 · in Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue (2021)
  15. …stock-options Windmill is the sweet-spot between Retool and Temporal, it is fully open-source ( https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill ) and has a hub ( https://hub.windmill.dev ) for sharing scripts and flows. Apply here:…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-09-03 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)
  16. Self-host: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill#how-to-self-host Custom domain: not yet but for sure we will add it as an option for the teams plan
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-08-10 · in Launch HN: Windmill (YC S22) – Turn scripts into internal apps and workflows
  17. Yes. If you want to build from source, replace `image: ...` by `context: .` in https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/main/docker-c... and docker-compose will rebuild from source. If you just want to compile backend and frontend…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-08-10 · in Launch HN: Windmill (YC S22) – Turn scripts into internal apps and workflows
  18. …dependency project for everyone to reuse! Here is the magic part to implement the queue in sql: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/main/backend/...
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-08-09 · in Launch HN: Windmill (YC S22) – Turn scripts into internal apps and workflows
  19. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify this! https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill#how-to-self-host You just need to docker-compose up https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/main/docker-c... and you are all set :)
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-08-09 · in Launch HN: Windmill (YC S22) – Turn scripts into internal apps and workflows
  20. …the Github repo. Does this section exist[1] in the docs anywhere? Might be good to include. [1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill#how-to-self-host
    comment by aliasxneo · 2022-08-09 · in Launch HN: Windmill (YC S22) – Turn scripts into internal apps and workflows
  21. …more developer-friendly and also allows you to reference other code in your codebase if you want. https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill-gh-action-deploy lets you sync from github, including metadata that are stored in a json file…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-08-09 · in Launch HN: Windmill (YC S22) – Turn scripts into internal apps and workflows
  22. …solution. We chose nsjail in the end and it works really well. All the config files are here: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/tree/main/nsjail and this is how it is spawned from within the Rust worker:…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-08-02 · in Using Firecracker and Go to run short, untrusted code execution jobs (2021)
  23. For coders that would stay away because of those limitations, we built Windmill ( https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill ) as an OSS low-code builder allowing you to define flows (sequence of scripts essentially) made out of arbitrary…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-07-31 · in Raising VC funding for a solo-dev OSS project
  24. …were able to raise directly 1.6M. Our tools have so many similarities, Windmill is also AGPLv3 ( https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill ) and also self-hostable, and also about building custom internal tools. We focus a lot less on UI…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-07-31 · in Raising VC funding for a solo-dev OSS project
  25. This is absolutely brilliant. In windmill, https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill (self-hostable AWS Lambda, OSS AGPLv3) we infer the jsonschema of your script by doing static analysis but so far we were not doing validation of the…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-07-21 · in Show HN: Pg_jsonschema – A Postgres extension for JSON validation
  26. …typescript (deno) scripts. It is an OSS and self-hostable alternative to airplane.dev or pipedream: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill Send an email at ruben@windmill.dev or apply at: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/windmill/jo…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-07-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)
  27. …itself is not even source available. I think it's a bit disingenuous in that case. At Windmill ( https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill ), we are actually building the OSS platform that you can self-host and that is an actual OSS…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-06-02 · in Open Source Alternative To
  28. …typescript (deno) scripts. It is an OSS and self-hostable alternative to airplane.dev or pipedream: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill Send an email at ruben@windmill.dev
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-06-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)
  29. …and python support, I am building an OSS, self-hostable airflow/airplane alternative at: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill You write the modules as normal python/deno scripts, we infer the inputs by statically analyzing your script…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-05-23 · in Lessons learned from running Apache Airflow at scale
  30. …| Remote or Paris | https://docs.windmill.dev/hiring Windmill is an OSS developer platform ( https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill ) to quickly build production-grade multi-steps automations and internal apps from minimal Python and…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-05-14 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)
  31. …for now: https://alpha.windmill.dev I am not doing anything fancy for building the dockerfile: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/main/.github/... Running the docker on the other hand require to pass a few env variables, among…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-05-05 · in Windmill.dev
  32. …following weeks + JS/TS support. I have some diagrams and a step-by-step explanation on the README: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill But the step-by-step is missing the concepts of variables and resources. If you have any feedback…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-05-05 · in Windmill.dev
  33. Hello, author here. I did not plan to have a wide announcement today tbh. This is the repo: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill I have my YC interview in 10 minutes and wanted to OSS it before. Agree it lacks a lot of polishing, but…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-05-05 · in Windmill.dev
  34. https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill#how-to-self-host Looks like those instructions don't exist yet.
    comment by eatonphil · 2022-05-05 · in Windmill.dev
  35. …always be more powerful. There is a github action to automatically deploy from github to windmill: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill-gh-action-deploy That gh action is what I use myself for the public templates that hydrate every…
    comment by rubenfiszel · 2022-03-13 · in No-code is the future of programming. That's great news for engineers