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Life & fun · December 16, 2022

Rulebricks: A visual rule engine

A friend and I spent a month throwing together a visual rule engine product– wanted to share it with HN today. I've been building automation tooling for a few years at prefix.app and one of the messier things both to support and to teach users was around encoding logic in their automations– most folks get a hold of the basic concepts quite easily, but every (visual) automation tool out there seems to have their own way of actually pulling it all together. For small decisions those work great! But for bigger decisions and more complex logic we don’t think it makes much sense to be embedding…

Rulebricks: A visual rule engine launched on December 16, 2022 with 5 votes, #1,786 of 3,688 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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Add remarkably powerful decision-making capabilities to any automated business process.

Rulebricks helps enterprise teams offer visual decision management capabilities within any automated business process. Model critical decisions and publish powerful API endpoints that map data to outcomes using a familiar, no-code interface that's easy for every stakeholder to understand, update, and share. A comprehensive platform business users can actually decipher. Rulebricks frees vital decision-making logic from scripts and workflow editors, giving your team a legible surface to quickly review and update the changing rules that drive yourfrom rulebricks.com

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A friend and I spent a month throwing together a visual rule engine product– wanted to share it with HN today. I've been building automation tooling for a few years at prefix.app and one of the messier things both to support and to teach users was around encoding logic in their automations– most folks get a hold of…

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