Windmill

Open-source platform to turn scripts into internal apps & workflows

Y CombinatorSummer 2022ActiveB2BInfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaSB2BWorkflow Automation

What they do

Problem

Engineering teams struggle to quickly turn scripts into reliable internal tools and automated workflows without building and maintaining custom infrastructure.

Solution

Windmill is an open-source developer platform that converts scripts into UIs, workflows, and full-stack internal apps with built-in runtime, scheduling, permissions, secrets, and integrations.

Who it's for

Developers and engineering teams at companies that need to build internal apps and automate business workflows.

Founders

Ruben Fiszel

Founder

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.