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Windmill turns small automations into proper tools

February 23, 2026
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What it solves

Every company has those little automations that someone built once — a report that runs at night, a data import, a thing that checks something and sends an alert. They usually live on someone's laptop or a server nobody remembers setting up.

Windmill gives those automations a real home. You put them in one place, give them a schedule, and suddenly they have a dashboard, logs, permissions, and a button anyone on the team can press to run them manually.

Why it showed up on our radar

Over 3,000 organizations use it in production. It's completely open source and free to run yourself. The interface is clean, the scheduling works well, and it handles the kind of internal tools that are too boring for a developer to enjoy building but too important to ignore.

Quick glossary

  • Open source — software whose code is public and free to use. Anyone can inspect it, improve it, or run it themselves.
  • Scheduling — running something automatically at set times. Every morning at 8. Every Monday. Every hour.
  • Logs — a record of what happened and when. Like a flight recorder for your automations.

Who this is for

Teams that have outgrown spreadsheets and manual processes but don't want to buy expensive enterprise software. If someone on your team has ever said "I have a little script that does that," Windmill is where that script should live.

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