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windmill-labs / windmill

windmill

Code-first platform for workflows, apps and AI agents, on the fastest self-hostable orchestrator (benchmarked against Airflow, Prefect and Temporal). Business teams build with AI, engineers control what ships. Open-source alternative to Lovable, Retool and n8n.

22Distinct people
90Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
18.6KGitHub stars
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What it is

Code-first platform for workflows, apps and AI agents, on the fastest self-hostable orchestrator (benchmarked against Airflow, Prefect and Temporal). Business teams build with AI, engineers control what ships. Open-source alternative to Lovable, Retool and n8n.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

I love deno so much and all of its ideas highlighted in the article (dependency management, security, performance) so much that I've build an entire framework around making…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 5:05:26 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year90 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-03-13 18:09:03 UTC to 2026-09-23 15:52:45 UTC.

010203040502022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 31 mentions; 0 submissions, 31 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 50 mentions; 2 submissions, 48 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 2 submissions, 4 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC31031
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC50248
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC624
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312

What Hacker News says

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It's very close to the direction we're taking for windmill.dev, we call it "operator builders" rather than focus on "knowledge graph" which the article is very light on details of. What I'm mostly reading is a developer platform and runtime where users can build agents that can run tools and for that you need a secure code runtime, ACL/permissions, easy way to build apps or what cloudflare OS call gadgets. We're betting on this too at https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill, very curious to see if that's the future for most enterprise and if a model where everyone vibe-code/fork cloudflare OS to their enterprise need is the future, or a more exhaustive/enterprise platform like ours does.
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Windmill.dev is not "fully open-sourced (AGPLv3)"

I think Windmill.dev (https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill) is really cool, and fully support their desire to be paid for their work. However, their README says: > “Windmill is fully open-sourced (AGPLv3)…” But their LICENSE says: > ... The files under backend/ are AGPLv3 Licensed, except any snippets of code under the compile flag ‘enterprise’. Those snippets and files are under a proprietary and commercial license. Private and public forks MUST not include the proprietary/commercial code mentioned above. I dove deeper into the code, there are around 300 files in the codebase that contain references to enterprise or private features, so it's not a clearly separated directory that can just be removed. They have 1.1k forks of their repository that I can see on Github, and I doubt all of them took the time to strip the proprietary code
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to comply with the license. So at this point, it feels like a licensing trap for anyone that clicks the fork button on Github or is attracted by the AGPL license Don't get me wrong, I wish more companies made their code open-source if for no other reason other than to be transparent. But calling this mixed source repository "fully open-sourced (AGPLv3)" feels like false advertising that actively leads users to violate the terms unknowingly. Also, even if that line was removed from the readme or fixed, it does not feel right to have: "...Private and public forks MUST not include the proprietary/commercial code mentioned above..." and the Github Fork button right next to each other. It's like a giant violate-the-license button next to the license.
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