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Relay.app - AI powered automations

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Relay.app is the easiest-to-use Zapier alternative, now with 3 new flexible ways to incorporate AI in your automations. Paired with Human-in-the-Loop steps, you get all the benefits of AI but still keep the control and oversight you need to feel confident.

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Jacob Bank
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Hello Product Hunt! 👋 Jacob here, founder/CEO of Relay.app—the easiest-to-use Zapier alternative with a generous free plan. We’re all on the hunt to find actually useful ways to build AI into our work, and I firmly believe that the easiest way for most of us to do this is by incorporating AI into our repeated automations. Today, we’re introducing 3 new ways you can do so in Relay.app: 1️⃣ Built-in AI actions for common use cases like text summarization and data extraction from sources like emails, meeting notes, and websites. 2️⃣ A flexible ‘Custom Prompt’ step that lets you prompt any AI model and use the response as structured data in your workflow. 3️⃣ AI Mini Agents that are empowered to invoke custom actions on your behalf The best part? Our Human-in-the-Loop 🙋 steps let you insert checkpoints for approvals or inputs anywhere in your automations. You get all the benefits of AI-powered automation, but you keep the control and oversight you need to feel confident. Head over to Relay.app to get started! Jacob P.S. In addition to our generous free tier, reasonable use of GPT-4o is included for free in all our plans. You can also connect your own account to use any model you like from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Groq, or Perplexity.
Mouad Hamdoune
@jebank 🔥
Thijs van As
Maker
Eager to see AI automations in action? Check this short video:
Raju Singh
@jebank liked the simplicity of the workflow, Jacob. Would love to try it out for my startup. Just curious to know, do you also have integration to forms data classification like Google forms, WP forms etc as well?
Thijs van As
Maker
@jebank @imraju we have integrations with Google Forms, Typeform, Tally, Jotform, Fillout, HubSpot Forms and other at the moment. WordPress forms not yet, but is on our roadmap! What workflow would you like to automate?
Max Savonin
@jebank Hi Jacob and the Relay.app Team, Just saw Relay.app on Product Hunt and the focus on simplifying AI integration into automations with a generous free plan is very interesting! It seems like a valuable tool for users to build AI-powered workflows without needing extensive technical expertise. A couple of questions to understand your approach better: - Can you elaborate on the process of connecting and using custom AI models from various providers like OpenAI or Anthropic with Relay.app? Are there any security considerations users should be aware of when integrating external models? - Beyond basic human-in-the-loop steps, are there plans for features like branching logic or detailed analytics to manage complex workflows with AI integration? My background in AI development might be valuable for Relay.app's development in areas like: - Exploring ways to streamline the process of connecting and using external AI models within the Relay.app interface, ensuring a user-friendly experience. - Developing functionalities for branching logic, conditional steps, and comprehensive analytics dashboards to facilitate the management and optimization of complex AI-powered workflows. I'd love to learn more about Relay.app's roadmap and how my skills can contribute to making it the leading platform for accessible and user-friendly AI automation. Thanks for launching such an innovative tool! I'll be checking out Relay.app at https://relay.app/ to explore the free tier and experiment with AI integrations. Best regards, Max
Stefans Keiss
I love the Human-in-the-Loop steps! How easy is it to set up approvals or inputs in the automation? 🤔
Thijs van As
Maker
@memphys_sk Really easy! Learn more here: https://www.relay.app/features/h...
Andreas Sohns
The AI features you have added are amazing. I'm particularly excited about the 'Customer Prompt' step and its flexibility.
Thijs van As
Maker
@andreas_sohns Thank you for your kind words! Here's a short demo video of the Custom Prompt step in action, hope it's helpful!
Triz
The automation app you guys have created is just amazing. The focus on UI and making it super easy to use AND the AI and human-in-the-loop capabilities make it a great automation app to make sure everything is on track. This is clearly the way to go and what really will make AI being implemented
Thijs van As
Maker
@bodegalaabs Thank you so much for the kind words and your invaluable feedback and feature requests over the past months!! Really helped make the product a lot better! 🙌
Olivier van den Hoogen
Very cool. Huge fan! What are some other examples of the human in the loop workflows that it can do besides the contract approval message in Slack?
Thijs van As
Maker
@oliviervandenhoogen Thank you, and great question! Tons of workflows benefit from Human-in-the-Loop steps, we're seeing many that are used in customer success for example! e.g. https://www.relay.app/customer-s...
Olivier van den Hoogen
@tvanas Nice use case!!
David Neira
Congrats on the launch 🎉🎉 I started a couple of weeks ago using Relay to automate my Notion and it's 🔥 Thank you so much for a really useful tool ❤
Thijs van As
Maker
@chape Thank you so much for the kind words, let us know if you have any requests or feedback! :)
Kyrylo Silin
Relay.app looks like a great alternative to Zapier! How intuitive is the setup for non-technical users, and what are some unique automation examples that Relay.app can handle better than competitors?
Thijs van As
Maker
@kyrylosilin Thank you! We believe setting up automations in Relay.app is really intuitive. Would definitely want to hear your feedback after you tried it out! Here's a short video that covers the basic concepts:
Steven Cornelis
As someone who works constantly with Make and Zapier, I can confidently say Relay is a game-changer. It's rare to find a tool that's both innovative and user-friendly, but Relay nails it. The interface is intuitive, making complex automations accessible even to newcomers. What impresses me most is how it pushes the boundaries of what's possible in automation, without sacrificing ease of use. We love Relay and are excited about the launch.
Thijs van As
Maker
@stevenskillit Thank you very much for the kind words and for the great product feedback over the past months! It really helped us improve the product
Christophe HK
Better and better.. 😍
Thijs van As
Maker
@christophe_h Thank you! Let me know if you have any feedback or feature requests!
Hakim Zerhouni
The new AI features sound incredibly useful. How does the 'Custom Prompt' step handle different AI models' outputs, and can it integrate seamlessly with existing workflows in Relay.app? Looking forward to exploring these new capabilities!
Thijs van As
Maker
@hakz Thank you! In the 'Custom Prompt' step it's super easy with just a few clicks to specify the (typed) structure of the output you expect, which is model-agnostic! We take care of making sure it works with the model you pick :) Learn more here, or check this quick video with an example! - https://www.relay.app/features/ai -
Siyan YANG
It's exciting to see how AI is being integrated into automation tools, and the Human-in-the-Loop steps are a thoughtful touch. Congratulations on the launch of Relay.app!
Jeroen Jillissen
Maker
Thank you so much @claudyah !
Gregory Karfo
Huge congratulations to Jacob and the Relay.app team on launching! 🎉
Nik Shilov
Congratulations to @tvanas and the team on the launch! I really love not only the AI feature but also your mini-agents. I'm just curious if there is any possibility to expect a self-hosted version?
Ivan Escobar
Relay is automation done right. -> Intuitive -> With a human in the loop -> Actually intuitive (really) -> AI-Enabled I've been using it for many use-cases on sales and personal productivity. After using most automation tools in the market (and working for one of them) I'm confident Relay has a great path ahead. Only feedback: + integrations! :)
Thijs van As
Maker
@ivanesro Thank you so much for your support and the valuable feedback over the past months!! And as we're building multiple new integrations per week we'd love to hear which ones you'd love to see!
Rafa
Love the app! This is definitely a step forward toward ease of use 👍
Thijs van As
Maker
@rafanocode Thank you so much!
Arzu Özkan
Congrats team! 👏🏻 Retable users really love Relay. We are grateful for the smooth integration you provided with Retable. You're doing amazing, keep it going! 🚀
Thijs van As
Maker
@arzuozkan Thank you so much! Our mutual customers love the integration!
Henry Scott-Green
Congrats on the launch today! We're huge fans of Relay :) What has surprised you seeing how people use these new AI features?
Thijs van As
Maker
@henry_scott_green Thank you! It's been incredible to see what people have done with these AI steps thus far. One customer prompted an AI model to generate JSON to use that with a custom HTTP request automation - blew my mind! 🤯
Tim Pouw
Hey @jebank, congrats on the launch. Curious to see more about the custom prompt and discuss it with our dev lead!
Jeroen Jillissen
Maker
Thanks @tim__pouw ! This video has a great example of a custom prompt in action:
Tommy Barav
Love it! Congratulations on the launch. I'm a big fan of Relay.app and find it much more intuitive than Zapier. The human-in-the-loop interaction is genius, and I can't imagine using it without that feature.
Thijs van As
Maker
@tommy_bar_av1 Thank you so much for the kind words and product feedback over the past months that helped our product become better!
Ben Lang
Top Product
Relay is a great product. Congrats team!
Thijs van As
Maker
@benln Thank you!