Tines
Build agents & automations integrated across your workspace
741 followers
Build agents & automations integrated across your workspace
741 followers
Tines offers a secure, trusted, vendor-agnostic platform to build, run, and monitor intelligent workflows.
Tines
👋 Greetings Product Hunt community! Thomas Kinsella here, co-founder of Tines.
We’ve been building Tines since 2018, helping security and IT teams at companies like Canva, Elastic, Dropbox and many more power their most important workflows reliably at scale.
What is Tines?
Tines is the first and only intelligent workflow platform. Instead of automating isolated steps, Tines lets teams orchestrate work end to end across tools, systems, and people. Workflows in Tines combine deterministic logic, AI agents, and human decision points.The result is workflows that hold up when inputs change, edge cases appear, or systems evolve.
Why launch on Product Hunt now?
Product Hunt is where innovators go to try, build, and push tools in real-world ways and we’ve just taken a meaningful step toward making intelligent workflows more accessible to everyone in that community.
Today we’re introducing Starter Edition, a new way for smaller organizations and lean teams to get started with Tines. Starter Edition makes it easier to move from brittle scripts, rigid integrations, or hobbyist automation tools to workflows that are secure, reliable, and ready to scale with you as your business grows.
At the same time, Tines remains fully enterprise grade. Large teams continue to use Tines to run high-volume, mission-critical workflows with the governance, scale, and trust they require. This launch expands how teams get started, not who Tines is built for.
Who Tines is for
Builders who want hands-on experiencing building and launching intelligent workflows
Security and IT teams orchestrating real operational work
Enterprises running workflows at scale
Innovators who want a platform that grows with them
Why we’d love your feedback
We believe intelligent workflows should be within reach for anyone responsible for keeping real work moving. We’d love feedback from this community on how Tines fits into your workflow building today and where you’d like to see it go next.
Thanks for being here with us. We’re happy to answer questions in the comments!
@thomas_kinsella Can I create a whatsapp workflow that sends out messages to my free sign ups at certain intervals/conditions?
@santhosh213 Hi Santhosh! If you are using WhatsApp Business or a third-party tool that connects to WhatsApp, then yes! This is can be done even with our free community version.
DiffSense
Could I create a stargazer workflow that would send me a daily update if any of my 200++ github projects go any new stars? Would that be possible with Tines? Thanks 🙏
@conduit_design Definitely! Setting up GitHub webhooks in Tines is a breeze, or you can do daily polls against your repos. Here's just a few examples from the Story Library to give some inspiration of what's possible:
Manage GitHub pull requests via Slack
Handle GitHub notifications and notify Slack
Send a customised daily briefing in Slack
These can be easily updated to trigger based on whatever criteria you want and can route to wherever makes sense (Email, MS Teams, Slack, email etc).
DiffSense
@ardamgrey SI have tried many agents to accomplish this, even perplexity cron jobs fail. they all fail to be honest. You have to do some python scripting and cli calls to make it really work. Would it be possible for you guys to make a stargazer workflow as a proof of concept?
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@ardamgrey @conduit_design We put together an example which you can find here! You can click the import button to get started with the workflow in a free community edition tenant and set it up on a schedule.
DiffSense
@ardamgrey @yannickgloster amazing! will try it first thing tmrw! and let you know how it goes 🙏
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@conduit_design 100%, you can even do it for free with our community edition!
You'd set up a scheduled story which fetches the current list of starts using a Github template and check that against the previous run's value.
@tereza_hurtova From what I've seen with Make is that it is more pre built app to pre built app focused. This is more reminiscent of how If This Than That (IFTTT) worked when I used it and a lot of the times it fell short because the pre built applets didn't do exactly what I wanted. Although Make does offer the ability to customize, I felt it was a lot more convoluted to accomplish. Something that a strictly non coder/programmer background person may not understand quickly/easily. Compared to n8n, I felt that was maybe a little too developer focused in the sense of usability for a no code user. From what I understood, the community/trial edition of n8n is a gitub self-hosting version. That's already pretty daunting for someone just looking to get started building apps. Compared to Tines, the default is a cloud hosted tenant, still maintaining the visual UI builder elements, but with quicker access to custom integrations versus pre-built apps (although Tines does also have a free library of pre-built apps/workflows that can be further customized after import to one's own tenant).
I don't know the features now, but for custom scripting, Make was only javascript which could be limiting for a lot of custom developers looking to build more complex apps. Believe both n8n and Tines support Python. For custom pages, I'm not sure if make/n8n have a custom page action/option, but Tines does, and it allows for ability to create custom forms and/or integrate/create with user interactivity. For example, I have made an entire RPG dungeon crawler game completely within Tines platform. Something I am not sure would currently be possible to replicate in either of the other 2 platforms.
To more directly answer one of your questions "how does Tines differentiate itself for a non-enterprise user or a smaller team": I'm a non enterprise user on a team of 1 (myself) and did not have to jump through hoops to get a self hosted client up and running (and maintained!), and was able to create literally all of my automations (even the full dungeon crawler game) on the community edition of Tines without a paid subscription or entering payment details. It was an easy, no fuss startup that was quick to begin using due to it's no code UI, but also allowed the flexibility of complex design and customizations of workflow for those that do have coding/programming backgrounds.
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Thanks @tereza_hurtova! Our platform is designed to be much more fun, flexible and easy to use for everyone, not just technical teams (though they love us too!) - anyone familiar with the process should be able to build and our ease of use means we have the fastest time to value for any workflow automation platform.
For some killer features though, check out the ability to build apps to allow humans interact with workflows in Tines, check out our story copilot to build faster, try workbench that allows you to connect your stack to your LLM, write (or prompt!) and execute code using Run Script, and instantly build your own integrations or templates for all your tools - and these are available on our free-forever, cloud, community edition.
I should also say that, given our DNA, I have a slightly different take - security should be for everyone and we have built everything with that in mind from the ground up, and everyone benefits as every workflow and tenant should be secure, not just large enterprises!
I could also write an essay on what makes us unique and different from a business perspective too but instead, I’ll ask, what are you using n8n/make for today?
@tereza_hurtova I think Tyler and TK covered everything. But if I were to +1 there's 3 things that are really fabulous.
The power of pages cannot be understated. Being able to spin up a dynamic webapp or page that is mostly WYSIWYG but can be customized pretty significantly, is huge.
When building, there's a two different AI powered "automatic" modes that make challenging workflow steps a breeze:
There's prompt-to-code generator in the "event transform" story tile. If I can't quite figure out how to ETL some data, then this handy tool will do it for me. The nice part is the resulting script doesn't require AI for every automation run, so it's saving me money.
There's also a built-in formula builder. I've gotten pretty good at designing formulas by hand, but sometimes I get my order-of-operations wrong, or the reference path to some event data is not quite accurate. This has saved me a ton of time, even if just helping me get started on a formula.
The agentic "chat" or "task" story tile is probably the most intuitive "insert AI" UX to a workflow builder I've seen across the available automation solutions. AI in your workflows can be both nerve-wracking and difficult to grasp, but I think Tines makes it pretty straight forward. It also feels like an embedded part of the platform, so it's clearly not just a bolt on.
Wishing you the best of luck!
Congrats on opening up the platform!
I'm curious about the mix of deterministic logic and AI agents. One of the biggest concern with agents is them going off the rails. Does Tines pause the workflow and request a human decision if it's not 100% sure? That feels like the missing piece in most agent frameworks.
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@valeriia_kuna Hey Valeriia... we believe one-size doesn't fit all. So, we give you the tools to add in those confirmations with the agents you build. If you're using Workbench or our Story copilot, they will both ask you to confirm tools with potential side effects by default, before taking an action.
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@valeriia_kuna yep, great call out - one size definitely doesn't fit all. Our view is that it's actually three things you need in your workflows not two and each part is equally important - the future of workflows combines humans, deterministic logic and AI agents. I talk about it about it here. When using an agent or deterministic flow you can easily build a step for confirmation within a Tines Page (and collect more information!), with an AI Agent Chat or within Slack, Teams, via email etc.
When you're building agents you also only select the tools you want so you can significantly scope the permissions - e.g. an agent could add a comment or a watcher to a case, but not delete or update etc.
@thomas_kinsella @ruairigalavan
That’s exactly what I wanted to hear.!
Scoping permissions so the agent can watch but not delete makes this way less scary to deploy.
Thanks guys!
The security angle here is interesting. Building VibeCheck (AI code security scanner), one thing that keeps coming up is how security automation needs stricter guardrails than regular automation - if an agent decides to quarantine something at 2am, you want a human to okay it before that actually happens.
Does Tines have built-in human approval steps, or is that something you wire in yourself?
Flexprice
The emphasis on workflows that hold up when inputs change or edge cases appear is important. Most automation tools look good in demos and break under real-world complexity.
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Thanks @shreya_chaurasia19, I couldn't agree more! Building is becoming easier with AI - Tines is a platform with security and trust in our DNA - we help teams build, run, and monitor their most important workflows. We have tens of thousands of enterprise users who trust us with their critical workflows, and we have customisable, powerful error detection logic, monitoring, testing, retrying, and the ability to modify your workflow (with change control & approvals) quickly and easily when you need to!
It seems like the capabilities are here but I dont see it anywhere explicitly: Could I use tines for onboarding/off-boarding employees? Is it possible to onboard new employees to certain tools by group/team?
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@cberg22 We have a whole section in our story library dedicated to handling the employee life cycle. This one specifically is a great example showing how to onboarding new employees and give them access to tools based on their role!
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@cberg22 @yannickgloster - onboarding/offboarding is one of the most common use cases we'd see teams use Tines for. As Yannick highlighted, the story library is a great starting point. And here's a specific example from a global crypto exchange company who used Tines for exactly that use case. They saved 4hrs onboarding time per new hire.