TLDR; the interactive demo here can give you broad strokes of what it does and how it does it: https://justworkflowit.com/platform/organizations/de000000-0...

Why did I build this: over the years any time I've had an idea for a product, I dread building the same not so trivial core components for it over and over again, especially the reliability and scaling bits on the backend. I want to focus on building the parts of my product that make it unique and differentiate it, not build a generic job running infrastructure for the 30th time - inb4 "99% of the time you don't need a generic job running infra" but I end up building one anyway so what can you do.

So I built JustWorkflowIt, a platform that handles all of the core bits I kept rebuilding like infrastructure level retries, timeouts, recovering from failures in the middle of a job so I don't waste $$ and time re-running the job from scratch, versioned job flows with tagging capabilities, the ability to define branching logic and compose different system components on the fly via a schema enforced JSON specification.

Then on top of this core job running system I've built a marketplace layer, so anyone can publish a workflow they've built for use by others with metered usage and monetization capabilities. One of my early tag lines to explain this to people was imagine being able to monetize every GitHub repo you own" but I'm still workshopping that. The marketplace workflows don't have to be limited to your conventional integrations like Jira, Notion, Linear, Slack (although those are available) they can also be for for static code or infrastructure components that interact with APIs or database e.g. there are idempotency and circuit breaker check/record workflows.

So anyway I've been building this in all the ways startup advisors tell you not to build stuff i.e. I didn't start with product market fit, didn't do customer interviews prior to building, did not start with a basic landing page for sign ups, my MVP has a pretty big footprint etc. I felt like to actually show value in this I did have to actually build it out significantly and I've been using it to run a friends business backend.

Try out the interactive demo on the website please please please please! Remember I'm just a lil guy on the other side of this post, please be gentle with me.

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