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Windmill Blog
Company blog · windmill.dev/blog · on HN as rubenfiszelprogrammingdataai
Windmill Blog is the company blog at windmill.dev, writing about programming, data and ai. Since 2022, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times, most often “Windmill: Turn scripts into UIs, APIs and cronjobs. Composable and data-driven”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (21) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link windmill.dev as an open-source workflow engine and developer platform. The blog itself gets a single mention, praising it as top notch.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 21 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Build scripts, workflows, apps, AI agents and data pipelines in code or with AI, on the fastest self-hostable orchestrator. Engineers control what ships. Open-source.
Most-linked posts?
- Windmill: Turn scripts into UIs, APIs and cronjobs. Composable and data-driven11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2023-05-14
- /6 people · 28 mentions · first linked 2022-02-14
- Fastest self-hostable open-source workflow engine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-22
What Hacker News says?
Ola, fellow YC founders. Surely you have seen Windmill since you refer to it in the comments below. It looks like Hatchet, being a lot more recent, has currently a subset of what Windmill offers, albeit with a focus solely on the task queue and without the self-hosted enterprise focus. So it looks more like a competitor to Inngest than of Windmill. We released workflows as code last week which was the primary differ…
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on “Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue”Submitted Fastest self-hostable open-source workflow engine as a story · 49 points
HN discussionTo clarify - you're right, this is a long time in a message/event queue. It's not an eternity in a task queue which supports DAG-style workflows with concurrency limits and fairness strategies. The reason for this is you need to check all of the subscribed workers and assign a task in a transactional way. The limit on the Postgres level is probably on the order of 5-10ms on a managed PG provider. Have a look at: htt…
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on “Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue”Submitted How to add an AI Code Copilot to your product using GPT4 as a story · 24 points
HN discussionWindmill Labs (YC S22) | Founding Rust backend engineer/DevOps | Paris or Remote | Full time | 70-110k + 1-3% | https://windmill.dev OSS developer platform for multiple steps automation (flows) with minimal python or 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
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”Submitted Show HN: Build a discord/Slack bot to answer questions with your docs and GPT4 as a story · 11 points
HN discussionWindmill (YC S22) https://windmill.dev | Founding SWE/DevOps | Rust/Svelte, K8S | Full-Time | Remote/Paris | $90-130k + $100k 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: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/windmill/jobs
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)”Submitted 2 days in Barcelona at the Svelte summit as a story · 10 points
HN discussionWindmill Labs (YC S22) | Founding Rust backend engineer/DevOps/Full-stack | Paris or Remote | Full time | 70-110k + 1-3% | https://windmill.dev OSS developer platform for multiple steps automation (flows) with minimal python or 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:…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)”Submitted How dbt works, and why orchestrators shouldn't split it into tasks as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAnyone considering windmill needs to look at this first: https://www.windmill.dev/docs/advanced/local_development . Why do I need to "sync" with windmill? Why is there an IDE built into windmill? Why is this so convoluted? It's like it's starting with the goal of lock-in before even developing a good product or finding market fit.
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on “Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator”Submitted Automating quality support at scale: AI and human in the loop as a story · 7 points
HN discussionFounder of https://windmill.dev here which share many similarities with Maestro. > Maestro is a general-purpose, horizontally scalable workflow orchestrator designed to manage large-scale workflows such as data pipelines and machine learning model training pipelines. It oversees the entire lifecycle of a workflow, from start to finish, including retries, queuing, task distribution to compute engines, etc.. Users can…
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on “Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator”Submitted Windmill: Turn scripts into UIs, APIs and cronjobs. Composable and data-driven as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWindmill is pretty lightweight and easy to deploy. https://www.windmill.dev/ you can configure it to have a single worker on the same server as the ui and database.
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on “Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator”Submitted Windmill: Turn scripts into workflows and UIs in minutes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is huge and comes at the right moment for me. The Web Browser part is far less important to me than being able to compile programs into small and autonomous wasm binaries. I am indeed building an open-source (soon) business app platform based on code: https://windmill.dev Right now you can define any scripts and run them, but behind the scene, the way the workers work is that they have a static list of dependen…
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on “Python 3.11 in the Web Browser”Pretty sure you meant https://windmill.dev
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on “Heroku Free Alternatives”https://windmill.dev : open source developer platform to turn scripts in Python, Typescript and go into endpoints, shareable internal apps, workflows and schedulable jobs.
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on “Heroku Free Alternatives”Just want to add, I followed pretty much the same path with Windmill [1], which is also in the developer tool space, and also open-source. Built everything solo for 5 months. I thought it would be impossible to get into YC, it is not and I was fortunate enough to join YC on the latest batch, on my first try [2]. Getting into YC changed the course of the company, increased many orders of magnitude my ambition and mad…
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on “Solo founder dilemma; CEO or CTO?”Windmill is a low-code workflow engine: https://www.windmill.dev/flows
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on “Open Source Python ETL”While the execution model is very similar to Airflow, we're primarily targeting async jobs which are spawned from an application, while Airflow is primarily for data pipelines. The connector ecosystem of Airflow is very powerful and not something that we're trying to replace. That's not to say you can't use Hatchet for data pipelines - this is a common use-case. But you probably don't want to use Hatchet for big dat…
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on “Launch HN: Hatchet (YC W24) – Open-source task queue, now with a cloud version”Shame it's not FOSS. There's still https://www.windmill.dev/ though.
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on “N8n raises $180M”If you need a job queue on Postgres, https://windmill.dev provide an all-integrated developer platform with a Pg queue at its core that support jobs defined in python/typescript/sql
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on “Postgres as queue”This is super timely. Windmill ( https://windmill.dev ) used to only support webhooks to trigger code and flow jobs. We have just added email support building our own MX server, and wanted to add CDC change. We were gonna do it on Debezium but this will allow us to remove the need for a third-party service and just add this as a crate. Thank you supabase for open-sourcing this.
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on “Show HN: Pg_replicate – Build Postgres replication applications in Rust”We bet big on deno with Windmill (OSS platform to turn scripts into internal UI and workflows) [1][2] and are extremely pleased. The language design choices and the performances/caching strategies are a perfect match for building a distributed workflow runtime at scale. However, the compatibility with npm was the most requested feature. Before the compatibility mode with npm was released, we were about to build a co…
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on “Deno 1.27”(Founder of windmill.dev, the closest alternative to Airplane and we are OSS) Congrats on the acquisition Airplane team. You were a strong inspiration for us, a precursor and set a high-quality bar for pro-code developer platforms. I have nothing but respect for the Airplane team and we probably wouldn't exist in our current form without your competition. We are ready to migrate all Airplane customers and the migrat…
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on “Airtable acquires Airplane”I'm guessing you mean this? https://www.windmill.dev/ "Open-source developer platform and workflow engine"
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on “Launch HN: AgentHub (YC W24) – A no-code automation platform”We use https://windmill.dev which is great for this!
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on “Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations”I am building a tool that might satisfy some of your wants (the alpha is not completely ready yet). It is code based, but everything else is taken care of including the UI which is auto-generated from your script parameters/signature in Python. https://windmill.dev Let me know what you think :)
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on “Show HN: No-code alternative to Retool, Appsmith, Internal, etc.”
