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N8n raises $180M

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Re: N8n raises $180M

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Post by spwa4 »

jitl wrote: post #136
seer wrote: post #133

While n8n is amazing for the odd office automation and giving semi-technical people an enormously powerful tool to get things done, it seems it can’t really replace a real backend, and mostly because of the n8n team choices than any technology. We were trailing it and wanted to essentially switch our entire backend to it - and technically it seemed to be able to do the job, but their licensing turned out to not be a…

Surely you can negotiate an unlimited amount of executions?

Only by installing nodeRED.

Re: N8n raises $180M

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Post by helsinki »

dpflan wrote: post #37
helsinki wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I built a GitHub-native coding / review agent that outperforms CodeRabbit (by a lot), and it only took me like two hundred hours. There are a few of us using it at work, meanwhile CodeRabbit is valued at $550M.

Do you have paying customers? Putting money into customer acquisition and retention is where a lot of money can go versus R&D.

No, I don’t. I built it inside of my employer’s walls (hedge fund), so I’d have to rebuild it from scratch in order to acquire paying customers (not a bad idea).

Re: N8n raises $180M

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Post by rizky05 »

tomasphan wrote: post #166

Question for n8n and other orchestration tool users: Why not use an LLM to vibe code the orchestration? Is it still hard to host or not mature enough? I tried n8n but found it easier and cheaper to have Claude code something and then throw it in docker as API that I could interact with. Tool integrations were also easy to vibe code. I am maybe more technical than the average n8n user? Not sure

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Post by nnurmanov »

comprev wrote: post #163
ffsm8 wrote: post #157

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Huh? Isn't that oracle's business strategy in 2025, still? I mean my current role doesn't put me into these kinds of considerations anymore, but I didn't hear they've changed their ways - so I just thought that's still the way you pay for Oracle DB

Oracle was the first company I thought of who licensed per-CPU. Many moons ago I was a sysadmin at a company and first heard about their licensing strategy when sizing up some new multi-socket Opteron servers. First time I learned about per-CPU licensing.

It’s per core licensing with core factors. Core factor ranges from 0.25 to 1. I have not checked how it is now, but it used to be as above 5-10 years ago

Re: N8n raises $180M

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Post by seer »

rkuodys wrote: post #138
seer wrote: post #133

While n8n is amazing for the odd office automation and giving semi-technical people an enormously powerful tool to get things done, it seems it can’t really replace a real backend, and mostly because of the n8n team choices than any technology. We were trailing it and wanted to essentially switch our entire backend to it - and technically it seemed to be able to do the job, but their licensing turned out to not be a…

Facing similar issue with monitoring part of executions. What is your solution if I may as - have you taken smth of the shelf and extended to your needs or did you built from the ground up everything?

Honestly we were looking at hatchet / pickaxe - similar vein of a project but more dev focused, but in the end realised our use cases were not all that complex so just built everything in a bespoke manner.

We used n8n for two things mostly - AI agents and process automation.

For AI we just built own MCP servers, and then the agents are quite easy to use as the major frameworks kinda help you with it. N8N’s AI is kinda just a UI layer for langchain - though we just used google’s adk.

For process automation - well there is so much options it’s not even funny.

Re: N8n raises $180M

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seer wrote: post #133

While n8n is amazing for the odd office automation and giving semi-technical people an enormously powerful tool to get things done, it seems it can’t really replace a real backend, and mostly because of the n8n team choices than any technology. We were trailing it and wanted to essentially switch our entire backend to it - and technically it seemed to be able to do the job, but their licensing turned out to not be a…

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Re: N8n raises $180M

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Post by sneak »

bsnnkv wrote: post #156
sneak wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The term you are looking for is “source available” license.

Maybe we can solve the "free" vs "libre" vs "open" debate first

There’s no debate. These terms were completely settled more than a decade ago.

Re: N8n raises $180M

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Post by [deleted] »

janober wrote: post #26
nomilk wrote: post #13

147k stars and currently the 38th most starred repo on all of GitHub [0, 1]. Seems odd that a project has so many stars yet is largely unfamiliar to much of HN (corrections appreciated). I asked an LLM if there's ways to detect suspicious starring activity (e.g. if stars were purchased). It suggested checking the project's star history [2] (doesn't appear suspicious). It also suggested the stars to issues ratio. n8n…

Definitely, no stars have been bought, and none will ever be. It would go literally against everything we stand for and one of our core values, "Act with Integrity".

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