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Agreed, it does look very similar to what we're building at https://www.airplane.dev/

However I've come across a few other similar products as well over the past year we've been building Airplane, and frequently things appear superficially similar but there's a difference in focus/use case/target customer/etc. For example, Airplane is focused on support, customer success or ops use cases (e.g. "I wrote a script to delete a user record / reset a 2fa token / etc, I can use Airplane to let the customer support team have access in a safe way"). Whereas I've seen other tools in this space target more of a "programmable Zapier" type use case (e.g. "For every new customer, I want to use a Python script to hit the Slack API and generate a custom notification.")

It'll be interesting to see how Windmill evolves over time.



Thanks for the clarification! Also, recently I discovered retool workflows [1], something I think people would use ops, customer success flows too. In general, automation like these solves relevant problem in an org.

[1] https://docs.retool.com/docs/building-a-workflow-with-the-re...




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