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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
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.
Thijs van As
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
@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?
Joseph Abraham
@jebank Big congrats on your launch! 🌟 What’s been the most rewarding part of the process so far? BTW asking my team to check this out, right now we use n8n
Jacob Bank
@kjosephabraham fun to see what people build with it!
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
@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!
Alex Dulub
Hi Jacob, sounds like a game-changer for automations! The Human-in-the-Loop feature especially stands out. How easy is it to set up the AI actions for someone new to automation tools?
Jacob Bank
@alex_dulub As easy as we could make it! I'd recommend starting with a simple case of using AI to extract information like this one:
Bon
When using Zapier, I often find it a bit cumbersome, and sometimes it doesn't perform as expected. I'll try out Relay and wish you ongoing success, hoping it will allow me to completely transition away from Zapier.
Thijs van As
@bonvisions Excited to hear this, please don't hesitate to reach out to us directly if you have any questions or requests for new integrations! Easiest is via support@relay.app
Cara (Borenstein) Marin
Wow, this is so exciting. I've been a relay customer for some time and find it super easy to use and set up automations that save me time. Congrats on the launch today!
Thijs van As
@stash_new Thank you so much for the kind words, and don't hesitate to reach out any time when you have feature requests or other product feedback!
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
@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! 🙌
Amin
Looks great! The pricing is reasonable too. Do you plan on adding Circle.so as one of the integrations soon?
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
@chape Thank you so much for the kind words, let us know if you have any requests or feedback! :)
Tony Han
Wow, this is a very thoughtful product, the way Relay leverages AI, but still allows human to be in control. Will definitely give this a try! Also love how the interface is very clean and easy to use. I guess technically, you can build out several AI agents who do different part of the jobs. For example, you can have different agents with different LLM to check each other's work or focus on specific tasks they are good at. Checked out the onboarding, and I think you should add PH to the "How did you hear about Relay.app?" drop down! Also just a thought, would it make sense to leverage reverse trial here? If the user is free to create tons of automations and invite their team members, I think they would be more likely to subscribe to paid tiers once their trial ends. Congrats @jebank and team!!
Jacob Bank
@tonyhanded good question. it is a reverse trial conceptually in that users in the free tier get access to all of the features and we haven't seen the 200 automation limit be a blocker to trying it out. but let's see!
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
@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! 🤯
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
@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...
Dominic Whyte
Congrats on the launch @jebank and Relay.app team! It's been a pleasure partnering with you all and awesome to see how quickly the product has evolved and the fast adoption from happy customers. Congrats again!
Jeroen Jillissen
Thanks for the kind words and the awesome collaboration @dominicwhyte !
Avi Hercenberg
I love Relay so much and use it all the time! I have Relay crating automatic meeting notes for me in Notion every time I take a zoom meeting, linking my fireflies call recording to my Notion notes page, and adding zoom/meet links to blank calendar invites. I've introduced Relay to countless people and they all love it! I've also worked with Relay as head of partnerships for Smartsuite.com and can tell you they are an awesome partner! If I had to bet on the next big automation company in the age of AI it would def be Relay! Relay is easy to use and very intuitive. Relay is very advanced and innovative with aI and human in the loop. If you are evaluating automation tools for your team I'd see no reason not to go with Relay! The cherry on top? Jacob and the entire team are absolutely awesome! I've personally interacted with many/most of them and there's no doubt in my mind this company will be a household name in the coming years! Rant over!
Atul
Started using it last week and now I'm absolutely in love with Relay. Thanks for building this, Jacob. Excited to chat with you this week.
Jacob Bank
@atulacleaver woohoo looking forward to it!
Kshitij
Hey, really interesting product! I love the structuring & human-in-the-loop elements, which would prevent a lot of errors proactively that happen with these types of tools. I'm curious if the entire flow would be generated automatically from just the prompt at some point, so one can just prompt and the entire automation workflow is created? Good luck & congrats again.
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
@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!
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
@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
Antony Toron
Congrats on the launch! The whole Relay team has been amazing to work with, and your solution of AI mixed with Human-in-the-loop is smart. Best of luck and congrats again! 🚀
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?
Daniel Somoza Villaron
Congrats for the launch! 🔥 Excited for this new chapter of relay, and really looking forward to build some very cool stuff thanks to Relay!!
Thijs van As
@iamdsv Thank you so much! Eager to hear your feedback on the product when you've had a chance to try it!