Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API

As a non-coder I was obsessed with automation tools like Zapier when they first came out. After that, I tried very hard with n8n but just found it impossible to work with until I read some post by some developer that said "just do it in Python". Took me a while to really take that in given I can't code but then I got Claude to write some Python scripts automate some work spreadsheet and API work and I haven't looked back since.

I think something like this could have worked several years ago but now it's overkill.

"Built by the team behind Brainfish"

Perhaps I'm the wrong market for this project (despite much of my bread and butter being types of workflows) because I have no idea what Brainfish is.

- zapier

- n8n

- tonnes of these keep popping up

> We’ll model it in Ballet on your real systems in a 30-minute working session

You drastically underestimate how bad most systems are. All of the vendors in your examples have good APIs. Those vendors already did the hard part.

All of the systems we need solutions for are moving targets that are breaking constantly. You can’t model those in 30 minutes because the ways in which they break don’t show up until months later.

Yet another automation? How do you plan to win the market when you add just 1% of extra value? In a few weeks it's commodity. The fact that it's easy to build nowadays don't mean you need to build every cool idea that pops up your mind... However, I might be completely wrong - and in that case, I wish you luck and success on your journey!