Windmill Has a Free API — Here's How to Build Internal Tools and Workflows 10x Faster

An ops engineer told me: 'We had 200 internal scripts scattered across cron jobs, Lambda functions, and random VMs. Nobody knew which ones were still running or who owned them.' Windmill solved this — all scripts in one place with a UI, scheduling, and approvals. What Windmill Offers for Free Windmill self-hosted (free forever): Unlimited users, scripts, and executions Script editor — TypeScript, Python, Go, Bash, SQL, GraphQL Workflow builder — visual DAG editor App builder — drag-and-drop internal tools Scheduling — cron with retry and error handling Approval flows — human-in-the-loop workflows REST API — manage everything programmatically Auto-generated UIs — scripts become forms automatically Windmill Cloud free tier: 1,000 executions/month. Quick Start # Self-hosted via Docker git clone https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill.git cd windmill/docker docker compose up -d # Access at http://localhost:8000 Write a Script (Auto-Gets a UI) # main.py — This becomes an internal tool aut