Windmill
ActiveOpen-source platform to turn scripts into internal apps & workflows
This company has previously operated under “Windmill.dev”. A rename frequently marks a pivot in positioning or product — useful raw material for variant ideas.
About
Windmill is an open-source developer platform that turns scripts into workflows, internal tools, and full-stack apps. Write scripts in Python, TypeScript, Go, Bash, Rust, SQL - Windmill auto-generates UIs from their parameters, handles dependencies, credentials, permissions, and scheduling so you focus on business logic, not infra. Open-source alternative to Airflow, Temporal, Retool and n8n. Chain scripts into flows with branching, parallelism, retries. Build dashboards with the app builder. Trigger via cron, webhook, or UI. All-in-one runtime, editor, secret manager, and OAuth platform - enterprise-ready out of the box. Stack: Rust / TypeScript + Svelte / PostgreSQL. Self-hostable, easy to deploy, built for performance and DX.
Founders · 1
Ruben was top of his class MSc in CS at EPFL, did research on compilers from Scala to Hardware at Stanford, built the first open-source library for reinforcement learning for Java, , built distributed systems at scale at Palantir and ran the engineering team at a Multi-Party Computation startup. He is now building Windmill, an open-source alternative to Retool, Pipedream, Airplane that contains the infra to run it and that you can deploy at scale.
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