ActivePieces - nocode alternative to Zapier, Make, n8n etc
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@marcusquinn So far I've been unimpressed
I really wanted to like it because the UI is remarkable. However, they've put a lot of effort into making most of the useful things a "Talk to sales" option--from secrets storage to grouping workflows.I might also be unfairly evaluating the overall software because my primary use case for ActivePieces was to use OpenRouter, and the OpenRouter node has a bug which prevented me from using it in a workflow.
@canadaduane Oh, yeah, not really in the spirit of open-source.
Interestingly, Hugging Face seems to be making a killing from all they give away for free, all from the enterprise support gigs, so it's definitely possible to be profitable with a give-away model, but you do have to have a path for Enterprise to pay more.
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@canadaduane Oh, yeah, not really in the spirit of open-source.
Interestingly, Hugging Face seems to be making a killing from all they give away for free, all from the enterprise support gigs, so it's definitely possible to be profitable with a give-away model, but you do have to have a path for Enterprise to pay more.
@marcusquinn said in ActivePieces - nocode alternative to Zapier, Make, n8n etc:
@canadaduane Oh, yeah, not really in the spirit of open-source.
Interestingly, Hugging Face seems to be making a killing from all they give away for free, all from the enterprise support gigs, so it's definitely possible to be profitable with a give-away model, but you do have to have a path for Enterprise to pay more.
The FOSS market has changed so much in the last 10 years, newer developers are more in a hurry to make cash, and so they market crippled versions of their software and call it "free open source". Yeah, right...
That's not free open source software, that's called "shareware" an OLD software model of the 1990s and I do not know if any of those shareware whom have become successful with this model, there might be a few exceptions though. On the other many of the real FOSS developers have become pretty much successful and RICH as well.
Too bad, these younger dogs will lose it or have very hard time getting above with this 'attitude' especially has the software industry is becoming extremely and savagely more competitive than ever, and especially as AI has made it easier than never to build software solutions. Agents and GPTs now can replace many of these supposed to be FOSS... some will close soon...
