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I've always found that these no-code workflow builders fail to hit the right abstraction - especially when new paradigms are added.
It allows you to write custom nodes with arbitrary code, but also connect them to existing integrations. Also, for each connection you can transform/select the data using JavaScript.
n8n has been good but not great in our organization (and we pronounce it "Nathan", to answer someone else's question). It's effectively a self-hosted version of Zapier and has quite a few built-in integrations. It's a bit more annoying to use than Zapier (but the price is right), and the AI features are currently about like the AI features of every other product: basically sufficient to tell investors "we do AI!" but…
How would you compare it with activepieces.com? It’s also self hostable but OSS license.
And their Launch HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34723989
Did something new happen here? Almost feels like an ad for n8n. This product has been there for a while.
I submitted it, seeing that it was not discussed recently, maybe it's useful to anyone else.
I using the self-hosted version.
Looks like a product you'd end up with if a few years back you thought to yourself "how do I make a business combining AI and pipelines?". I don't hate AI as such, I just don't love how it has to be shoved into every product or tech imaginable these days.
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I can highly recommend n8n. I prefer it over Make.com, Pipedream, Zapier, etc. for automations and AI agent tasks. Basically, anything you want to automate but don't want to spin up a custom code server each time. The main reasons I switched to n8n are it's open source, meaning I can run it locally without limits, and it supports code nodes in javascript and python. Make.com used to drive me bonkers when it took 10+…
It’s not open source though.
> Content of branches other than the main branch (i.e. "master") are not licensed
How the fuck do pull requests work in that setup? Or presumably tags aren't licensed?! Holy shit
Anyway, seems to be some rando made up license https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/blob/master/LICENSE.md#sustain...
I have a friend that uses them, but I took a separate route and just decided to learn programming basics, at least enough to be able to vibe code. I'm thinking why not just use APIs?
I think you did the right choice, but not everyone wants to take the longer route, so this is why n8n exists!
But, if you do know how to code, this makes it easy to quickly integrate stuff without having to write all the connection boilerplate code.
Can someone talk about their experience using n8n? I’ve seen it in passing a lot lately, but I wonder what some good successful use cases are
I recently started using it, and as an experienced developer, I love it. It's really easy to automate tasks and schedule things. For example, I connected it to my UXWizz MySQL database, asked the AI in UXWizz to give me a query with the funnel conversions for today (visits/pricing/checkout/sales) compared to last week, copied that into n8n and made it send me an emoji-formatted daily Telegram message. I am now using…
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I recently started using it, and as an experienced developer, I love it. It's really easy to automate tasks and schedule things. For example, I connected it to my UXWizz MySQL database, asked the AI in UXWizz to give me a query with the funnel conversions for today (visits/pricing/checkout/sales) compared to last week, copied that into n8n and made it send me an emoji-formatted daily Telegram message. I am now using…
Can I ask you why so many things with N8N is connected over Telegram it seems versus for example slack? Not a user of Telegram so I honestly am curious about this choice
n8n has been good but not great in our organization (and we pronounce it "Nathan", to answer someone else's question). It's effectively a self-hosted version of Zapier and has quite a few built-in integrations. It's a bit more annoying to use than Zapier (but the price is right), and the AI features are currently about like the AI features of every other product: basically sufficient to tell investors "we do AI!" but…
How would you compare it with Node Red? I've just poked at them, but my impression was that Node Red much more capable. IIRC one of my issues with n8n was the lack of streaming ability, which kills it for large datasets.
You can go a _long_ way with the split/join nodes and a little ingenuity to work around any issues with streaming.