Zenaton is dead, long live Infinitic
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I've been quite quiet recently, but I will do my best now to communicate weekly to let you know how the new project is going. Feel free to contact me directly at any time.
TL;DR: the new project Infinitic has a public home at Github. It's free-to-use, source available. It's already more powerful than the previous Zenaton but still needs some polishing (documentation, dashboards...). Contact me to work together.
Zenaton was closed this spring as we did not reach a clear product-market-fit. Zenaton was a SaaS proposing a new way for developers to code workflows and build automation. Frankly, it took me too much time to realize that our go-to-market was bogus from day 1. I have been blinded too long by our first commercial success, a wrong role model (Algolia), and good customer feedback. Zenaton was a generic technology that could be used for many, many use cases. For example, Zenaton could be used as a "Zapier for developers” to implement complex scenarios between 3rd party APIs (in which case we should have focused on integrating more APIs). It could also be used to orchestrate micro-services (in which case we should have focused on being usable on-premise). It could be used to orchestrate data pipelines (in which case we should have focused on a clear competitive differentiator with Airflow). It could be used for marketing automation (in which case we should have focused on providing a UI usable for non-technical people). Actually, we had paid customers for all those use cases.
Call me a geek or a technologist, but I'm passionate about this problem. That's why after the closing of Zenaton, I've decided to continue to work on this subject. This time with the ambition to build the simplest while the more powerful framework for building workflows— free to use and source available. Our target users are technical teams having to manage reliable orchestration at scale.
So with Pierre-Yves (Zenaton’s first recruited developer), we have worked for nearly 8 months now, and I'm thrilled to tell you that this new project has the name Infinitic (tell me if you like it / don't like it) and a new home https://github.com/infiniticio/infinitic.
I'm proud to say that it's already more powerful than the previous Zenaton according to preliminary load tests :)
Can you use it yourself now? Unfortunately, no, the documentation is not written yet, some data structures are still moving, and dashboards are not complete. I'll send a status board.
Can we work together on a project you have? Absolutely yes. Infinitic is still in its early days, and it will help me stay focused on features important to you. It may be just free discussions or paid services, depending on your needs.
I stop here, trying not to be too long. As stated previously, I'll try to send you one email per week (don't worry, it can only be less, not more).
In France, we are in the middle of a second lockdown, so I hope you are safe yourself.
Cheers,
Gilles