{"id":69549,"title":"Onu - Turn scripts into internal tools without doing any frontend work","tagline":"Onu takes away the pain of building complex frontends for internal tooling with script automation and auto-generated UIs.","body":"**tl;dr:** Onu is a developer-first tool that allows engineers to turn the repetitive scripts and workflows they're asked to run for their ops or CX teammates into production-ready internal tools. Onu doesn’t require any frontend work at all, so developers can spend their time writing business critical code instead of building or dragging/dropping frontend components. Sign up for our [waitlist](https://joinonu.com/?utm_source=yclaunch) for early access!  \n\nHi everyone! We’re Lindsey and Chine, and we’re excited to announce [Onu](https://joinonu.com/?utm_source=yclaunch)! \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=69549\u0026key=user_uploads/838199/d4e8ff75-31ac-445a-ac37-c428f4f503a0)\n\nChine and Lindsey are both software engineers who met 5 years ago when they started working at Lyft. \n\n[Chine](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chineikoro/) worked as an engineer at Bain before working at Lyft on the bikes \u0026 scooters team. After Lyft, Chine went to Stripe where she worked on banking-as-a-service, corporate cards, and payment links.\n\n[Lindsey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsey-redd/) worked on developer infrastructure and observability at Lyft before leaving to work at Stripe where she worked on low-code/no-code payments on the checkout and payment links teams. \n\n## 😢 **Problem**\n\n* **Tasks that involve both engineering and ops/CX are disjointed and time consuming.** Engineers spend too much time writing and running one-off scripts (e.g. fixing an out-of-sync user account) and ops/CX are often blocked by engineering.\n* **Building internal tools (even with low-code/no-code saas) takes a lot of frontend work.** As a result, building the tool stays in the backlog and engineers \u0026 ops keep schlepping through tasks.\n\n## **🥳 Our solution**\n\nOnu is a developer-first tool that allows engineers to quickly turn their ops/CX-related scripts or workflows into production-ready internal tools without having to write any frontend code at all.\n\n* **Spin up internal tools quickly** using the scripts you’ve already written, spending **zero time on frontend development.**\n* **See logs of each task’s previous executions** to keep track of when it was run, who ran it, and the result\n* Run scripts in your own environment but **without having to SSH into production**\n* **Use built-in integrations** to easily add actions to your tasks like posting to Slack, sending an email, or generating a Linear issue\n\n**🤯 You can use Onu to…**\n\n* **Onboard** **new users** to your product and then send them a welcome **email** \n* **Cancel a subscription**, refund the customer, and then update your **CRM**\n* **Fix an out-of-sync user account** and then notify a **Slack** channel of the fix\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=69549\u0026key=user_uploads/838199/3c3d3105-f01e-46a2-b5ea-b38d019b23c9)\n\n## **🌱 Why we built Onu**\n\nWe experienced these problems firsthand while working on fast moving engineering teams at Lyft and Stripe. Our teams needed internal tooling, but we didn’t have time to build feature-rich admin dashboards. Stripe had a homegrown tool that allowed engineers to spin up internal tools without writing frontend code. When we started working on Onu with a different idea we immediately felt the pain of not having a similar tool. \n\n## **🙌🏾 Asks**\n\n* **Sign up** - Join our [waitlist](https://joinonu.com/?utm_source=yclaunch) for early access! We’ll reach out with sign up instructions.\n* **Intros** - Do you know an **engineer, customer experience/ops lead, or startup founder** struggling to manage the workload between ops and engineering? We’d love an introduction. Shoot us an email at [founders@joinonu.com](mailto:founders@joinonu.com) or DM Lindsey on Twitter [@reddyourmind](https://twitter.com/reddyourmind?s=20) if you have someone in mind.\n\n  _\\*forwardable blurb:_ [Lindsey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsey-redd/), and [Chine](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chineikoro/), a team of ex-Stripe software engineers, are building a developer tool called [Onu (YC W23)](https://joinonu.com/?utm_source=yclaunch) to turn scripts and workflows executed for ops and CX teams into internal tools, zero frontend work required. If you’re interested in learning more, feel free to email them at [founders@joinonu.com](mailto:founders@joinonu.com).\n\n \n\n## **⚒️ Offer**\n\n* If you have any manual or repetitive tasks or scripts, we will migrate them onto Onu for you. You'll have a production-ready internal tool with minimal work.\n* We’ll prioritize the integrations (e.g. Linear, Discord, email) you need in order to make Onu a powerful addition to your toolkit.\n\n ","slug":"I5l-onu-turn-scripts-into-internal-tools-without-doing-any-frontend-work","created_at":"2023-02-22T17:25:02.950Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T04:45:47.912Z","total_vote_count":158,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I5l-onu-turn-scripts-into-internal-tools-without-doing-any-frontend-work","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":27985,"name":"Loula","slug":"loula","url":"https://joinloula.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cb9289ab02184d3dcba8ce3089afff9258dfc183.png","batch":"Winter 2023","industry":"Healthcare","tags":["Health Tech","Digital Health","Healthcare","Health Insurance","Women's Health"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/27985"}}