Trigger Workflows from Slack - Newsroom Case Study

This is a testimonial written by Wei Chih, Independent Journalist for a newsroom in Singapore.

“Windmill provides an amazing open-sourced platform that we can try and error at a very low cost, and we are able to trigger the command from Slack, which is a big plus to our reporters.”

What before Windmill?

We are a local newsroom in Singapore looking for leveraging technologies to empower our business. However, as a small team, we don’t have dedicated development resources, the best we can do is to find libraries on GitHub and assemble them into something that fits our need.

As a result, those libraries are often provided in different languages. We need Python to run scrapers, and need JavaScript to connect to certain SDKs, so it’s hard for us to use platforms such as n8n.io.

Also, our colleagues are not super tech-savvy, it would be hard to ask them to trigger web hooks or maintain the flows by themselves.

How did Windmill help?

Windmill provides an amazing open-sourced platform that we can try and error at a very low cost, and we are able to trigger the command from Slack, which is a big plus to our reporters.

We use Windmill for:

1. Media monitoring: We are maintaining a large collection of RSS feeds and use some NLP libraries to analyse what is happening around the world.
2. Scheduling posts: We use Windmill to automatically update posts to multiple platforms.
3. In the near future, we'll link audio and video processing.

How to use Windmill?

You can self-host it using a docker compose up, our go with the cloud app.

Building a Slackbot on Windmill is done in less than 10 minutes, try now!

Windmill is an open-source and self-hostable serverless runtime and platform combining the power of code with the velocity of low-code. We turn your scripts into internal apps and composable steps of flows that automate repetitive workflows.

You can self-host Windmill using a docker compose up, or go with the cloud app.