Actionsflow – IFTTT/Zapier free alternative based on GitHub Actions

A more general comment because I see these services popping up on here from time to time: You’re not an alternative to IFTTT or Zapier unless you have a comparable GUI, full stop.<p>I would love to see an alternative to these services that could be self-hosted, but the reason why these services are useful for most people is because they have a simple web-based interface, even compared to something like Yahoo Pipes. This opens up their capabilities to non-technical users. If you’re asking people to edit configuration files, you’ve already lost them, unfortunately.<p>If someone can do that, that’s where the opportunity lies for an open-source alternative to Zapier or IFTTT.

&gt; Actionsflow helps you to automate workflows, it&#x27;s the best IFTTT&#x2F;Zapier free alternative for developers.<p>Perhaps I&#x27;m a bit old school or not as invested in open source &quot;marketing&quot;, but I appreciate some more humility and honesty in a project description. With amazing open source projects like n8n and nodered around, it&#x27;s usually best to wait and receive the title of the &quot;best&quot; from others rather than give it to yourself.

Isnt this a ToS Violation?<p>&gt; Actions should not be used for:<p>&gt;...<p>&gt; any other activity unrelated to the production, testing, deployment, or publication of the software project associated with the repository where GitHub Actions are used.

Hey Hackers<p>I&#x27;m Owen, a workflow lover. A few days ago, I received an email from IFTTT that we loved has officially started a paid plan. I&#x27;m sorry that we are missing another free and great tool. I wish the IFTTT team all the best and hope they can succeed !<p>If you want a free, customizable alternative to IFTTT or Zapier, I hope Actionsflow can bring you a different experience.<p>I’d love for you to check it out and hear your thoughts!<p>Happy commenting!

Is there no GUI?<p>GUI is very important when you get past the IFTTT and into more IFTTTIFTTTIFTTIFTT workflows. The GUI makes the workflow understandable. And huginn has indicators that enable you to measure progress or identify errors on a diagram.

This is very cool and interesting. Are there any other Zapier clones out there in the open source world?

Buffer? Can it feed into Buffer? Or similar? For example, Like a video on You Tube, send that to Buffer.<p>I like IFTTT but consistency and support are always an issue. When it&#x27;s free that&#x27;s part of the deal. But if we pay and there&#x27;s still unreasonable wonkiness...

Actionsflow helps you to automate workflows, it&#x27;s the best IFTTT&#x2F;Zapier free alternative for developers. With Actionsflow, you can connect your favorite apps, data, and APIs, receive notifications of actions as they occur, sync files, collect data, and more.<p>You can use many triggers provided by the community (Like Slack, RSS, Webhook, Typeform, Email, Reddit, NPM, Telegram, Twitter...), you can also create your own triggers easily. You can also use Github Action as your workflow steps.

&gt; We implemented it based on Github actions.<p>Is this lock in?

Does anyone have examples of IFTTT flows that actually make use of the &quot;Pro&quot; features. I hadn&#x27;t been using it much besides having rss comics sent to my email but had an account for years so figured I&#x27;d try it out. As far as I can tell it is exactly the same except I&#x27;m paying two bucks a month now.

GitHub actions isn&#x27;t free

been working on this long? interesting - recently just coded something my own as IFTTT limitations on things like twitter were too annoying.<p>Trying to visualize how could recreate my work in this format&#x2F;actions setup - seems like might work....but alot of this is hanging on Github being &#x27;ok&#x27; with Actions being used for this and their cron&#x2F;scheduler being used all day? I suppose it&#x27;s running tasks anyways but seems like really could bog it down with a bunch of these just running and not really using Github for anything

<p><pre><code> Ifttt is trying to monetize. Can’t blame them. Thanks for this alternative. Also discovered reddit bans on accounts who used ifttt. Wandering if anyone else has same experience</code></pre>

Github is non-free.