n8n
Alternative to Zapier
Free node based Workflow Automation Tool. Easily automate tasks across different services.
Actively maintained
Real momentum
Apache-2.0, Commons-Clause
Omni-channel customer engagement and messaging automation platform (alternative to Braze, Customer.io, Iterable).
Dittofeed is an open-source automation project, with 2.9k GitHub stars and a health score of 31/100. It committed 125 times in the last twelve months across 6 of those months, and its status is slowing down. Licence: MIT. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.
| Status | Slowing down — Commits have thinned out over the last year. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-03-27 |
| Days since last commit | 143 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 0 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 125 |
| Months with activity | 6 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-03-28 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | MIT |
| Category | Automation |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
Dittofeed is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.
Assume every prospect can find a free version in five minutes. Your wedge has to be something open source structurally cannot deliver: compliance, support SLAs, managed hosting at scale, or a workflow the maintainers refuse to build.
Slowing down. Dittofeed recorded 125 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 6 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-03-27. Last release: 2026-03-28. Commits have thinned out over the last year.
Dittofeed is published under MIT. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
34 open-source implementations, 15 of them actively maintained, led by n8n at 201k stars. Saturation score 64/100 — Crowded. Free, maintained alternatives already dominate this category.
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