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airplane.dev
Company blog · airplane.dev/blog · on HN as raviparikhstartupsai
airplane.dev is the company blog at airplane.dev, writing about startups and ai. Since 2021, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 62 times, most often “Show HN: Turn SQL, Node, Python scripts into safe, shareable internal tools”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly mention airplane.dev as a platform for turning scripts into internal tools, and discuss its shutdown and competitors. Its blog posts on no-code and startup conviction are also cited.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Turn SQL, Node, Python scripts into safe, shareable internal tools5 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2021-09-02
- Show HN: Airplane Views – code-first platform for building internal UIs5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-01-07
- Airplane Autopilot: Build internal tools faster with an AI coding assistant3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-06-14
- No-code has no future in a world of AI3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-17
- Ways to extend your company's runway without a layoff3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-02
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-13
- Caching Golang Tests in CI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-07
- A downturn is the perfect time to start a startup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-24
- /schedules2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-19
- How to fix low-code: with more code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-29
What Hacker News says?
This is not necessarily true. "Bigger" does not mean "more stable." Big companies like Netflix did layoffs just now; meanwhile there are plenty of small companies that are profitable and doing great. A friend of mine runs a profitable startup (~50 people). A few months ago, a candidate turned them down to join a 500+ person well-funded company that seemed more stable–that company is now bankrupt, while my friend's s…
Comment linking /blog/evaluate-startup-offers-in-a-tech-downturn
on “Y Combinator's Message to Founders”Submitted Airtable acquires Airplane as a story · 185 points
HN discussionextremely ironic that the founders wrote a blog post entitled "How to gain conviction to work on a startup idea for 10+ years" https://www.airplane.dev/blog/how-to-gain-conviction-to-work...
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on “The end of Airplane.dev”Submitted Airplane.dev raises $32M in Series B funding as a story · 90 points
HN discussionI was curious about this article. How much of the AI hype was demoralizing to his perception of the company's future? Attempting to read between the lines, maybe he was down no more than just no-code. He might have thought AI would outperform in the same space where internal tools platforms (Airtable/Retool) currently live. Following that thought, perhaps Airtable/Retool may be looking to pivot away fast from low-co…
Comment linking /blog/no-code-has-no-future-in-a-world-of-ai
on “The end of Airplane.dev”Submitted Show HN: Airplane Views – code-first platform for building internal UIs as a story · 23 points
HN discussionbut what is the real user story? take a look at https://www.airplane.dev and https://www.scriptkit.com
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?”Submitted I started SaaS companies in 2013 and 2021. Here's how things have changed as a story · 15 points
HN discussionAgreed, 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 d…
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on “Windmill.dev”Submitted Show HN: Turn SQL, Node, Python scripts into safe, shareable internal tools as a story · 10 points
HN discussionCongrats on the (unintentional) launch and on getting into YC! We’re working on something similar at https://www.airplane.dev/ - same scripts-to-apps approach, schedules, trigger from Slack, etc. Would love to chat sometime and compare notes if you’re up for it - ravi@airplane.dev
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on “Windmill.dev”Submitted Lessons from building a domain-specific AI assistant as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm one of the founders at Airplane–we have a free plan as well up to 5 users: https://www.airplane.dev/pricing If pricing is a problem above that, I'm happy to chat about a discounted plan or higher free limit depending on your use case! Feel free to send me a note at ravi@airplane.dev
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on “Launch HN: Windmill (YC S22) – Turn scripts into internal apps and workflows”Submitted Airplane runbooks – turn scripts into internal workflow tools as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYes, this is sad to hear. This blog post from Airplane https://www.airplane.dev/blog/no-code-has-no-future-in-a-wor... had resonated with me. I think platforms which help teams securely deploy and manage low-code solutions generated with AI assistance are going to become popular. The challenge for Airplane might have been that SaaS (as against open source) in the developer tools space is difficult to sell.
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on “Airtable acquires Airplane”Submitted Airplane raises $8.5M in Series A funding led by Benchmark as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDepends on how many cron jobs you have and what you need out of it? Operating Temporal is not that hard -- you can start with `temporal --dev` on your own box. I have a "Nomad-Temporal" Terraform Module to stand one up on Nomad. [1] Temporal has Helm Charts for Kubernetes [2]. There is also Temporal Cloud [3]. That said, there is currently a chasm between "script in cronjob" to "scheduled task in Temporal". The focu…
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on “Executing Cron Scripts Reliably at Scale”Submitted Airplane Autopilot: Build internal tools faster with an AI coding assistant as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNo-code or low-code still means you're creating software, even if you're using a drag-and-drop UI to do so. And if you're building software, you're going to want things like version control, environments, code review, etc. Unfortunately, most of these tools have zero ability to do these things, or have really half-baked imitations of them, and as a result the apps you've built in no-code/low-code are unable to scale…
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on “Code vs. No-code”Submitted Migrating to Pulumi as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere’s a lot of other suggestions, but I’ll recommend my own: https://airplane.dev/ You can quickly turn scripts, SQL, REST endpoints, etc into lightweight internal apps with UI, permissions, approval flows, audit logs, and more. It’s like AWS Lambda but geared towards human-executable tasks. Similar to what you’re looking for, all the UI etc is autogenerated. It’s not a drag-and-drop / WYSIWYG app builder. Send me…
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on “Show HN: No-code alternative to Retool, Appsmith, Internal, etc.”Submitted Airplane.dev as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYour competitors -> https://www.airplane.dev/ , https://windmill.dev
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on “Show HN: Interval, CLIs in browser with no front end code”Submitted Airplane.dev as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt depends on what no-code/low-code is used for. When used properly, no-code and low-code platforms are great. They let a much broader population of non-developers build things and automate workflows. Even for people with an engineering background, they're often just simpler and faster to use than writing code from scratch. One of the best uses I've seen for these platforms is when prototyping a new startup or produ…
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on “Ask HN: Honest thoughts on no-code or low-code solutions?”Submitted Migrating to OpenTelemetry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's interesting because we came to a different conclusion with Autopilot[0] - context and learning is incredibly important for result quality, and gpt4 doesn't (yet) support fine-tuning but will soon, and we'll definitely be taking advantage of that. Not just for quality, but also for speed (less time spent gathering context and processing input tokens). My view is, everyone has access to chatgpt and github copilot…
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on “How to add an AI Code Copilot to your product using GPT4”Submitted Airplane Autopilot – AI coding assistant for internal tools as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI co-founded Airplane.dev, which a lot of companies use as a much simpler, serverless, user-friendly alternative to cron: https://www.airplane.dev/schedules We have companies running hundreds of concurrent schedules on our platform. Send me a note at ravi@airplane.dev if you'd like to chat about it.
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on “Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?”Submitted GraphQL vs. REST APIs: a complete guide as a story · 2 points
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