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n8n - Open source workflow automation tool

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With n8n everyone can have their own free node-based workflow automation tool.
n8n is self-hostable, so the data stays with you. It can be easily extended and so also used with in-house tools and allows to automate complex tasks.

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Luca
Seems interesting. Can be used by someone who doesn't know how to code?
Jan Oberhauser
Maker
@luqa Yes, that is the idea. Should work for the most stuff but if something more complicated with the data has to be done or some operation on the data should be performed (for which no node exists yet) some coding skills are definitely helpful. Hope however to improve that situation with the upcoming releases when people report that they have issues.
Luca
@janoberhauser thanks Jan, I will try it for sure.
Jan Oberhauser
Maker
@luqa Great! Have a nice day!
Ed Tewiah
Awesome product!! Hoping you can monetize this real fast without having to go closed source
Jan Oberhauser
Maker
@africajam Thanks Ed! The project has already the Commons Clause attached to make sure that this will never happen. This however also means that n8n is currently not "Open Source" according to the OSI even though the source is open and people can use it for free. I wrote a special section about that in the FAQ: https://bit.ly/335T0GS
Stefan W
Yooooo...Wow. Really. I came, saw it, installed it with Docker and love it. Congrats !!
Jan Oberhauser
Maker
@golangch Thanks that is great to hear! Hope it proves helpful for you!
Jason Dainter
Ive been a huge zapier fan for ages (since 2012 ive been a paying customer) but after the recent price changes this looks far more attractive to be honest now. In my view zapier has really made a bad move on their newer pricing structure. Any features that do anything useful have now been reserved for the huge enterprise customers, and the free or cheap plans are for hobbyists and tinkerers. It leaves people like me completely cold (eg serious entrepreneurs, that have some cash to spend, but a facebook like enterprise budget). 600 USD a month to have 100,000 tasks is just insane. It sounds a lot of tasks on the surface, but what has also changed (in a sneaky way IMO) is that a "task" now consists of literally every step/filter in a zap so those really start clocking up fast (before I believe it was a simple "per zap" not per task cost structure which was much more reasonable). I use to sing my love for Zapier from the rooftops, and I think their actual product is still the best offering on the market (support is pretty excellent so I do still have love for them to give!) but I think the heavily increased pricing makes no sense at all. I also have kindof an issue with SAAS tools that charge monthly pricing just for the sake of charging more money and not based on actual costs. In this case zaps/tasks are really fairly arbitrary (sure, a fractional increase on server load but, com'on!) Zapiers charge per tasks basically just ends up crippling you from doing anything serious and it feels frustrating as a customer because you know deep it the extra task allocation costs next to nothing on their side. I get that they need to charge something, but think they've got the structure totally wrong. Im going to look at moving everything over to n8n this year. Thoughts @wadefoster ?
Johann Pickard
@janoberhauser looks awesome. Have you considered making a 1-click deploy button for heroku. Something like Hasura has done. https://hasura.io/learn/graphql/... . This really simplifies setup for the intended target audience.
Victor Oliveira
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Daniel Hanover
How do I create a workflow? Getting "There was a problem creating the workflow: The workflow does not have any connections set"
Jan Oberhauser
Maker
Sorry to hear that you have problems. Does however not sound like an error message that you would get in n8n. Are you trying to create a workflow on n8n.io? If so be aware that you can only share workflows on the website to share them with other users. You currently have to either host n8n yourself or write an email (https://n8n.io/hosting) if you are interested in a hosted solution.
Hai Le
Looking for Facebook ads and Hubspot
Jan Oberhauser
Maker
@hai_le1 There are sadly no integrations for this services yet .You can add it to the list here: https://community.n8n.io/c/featu... People can then upvote and depending on the demand the integrations get created.
Ellen Choi
Super cool. I've run into limitations with Zapier and can see that there's room for a more robust and technical solution. is the idea that it's open source but you'll monetize through the hosted version?
Jan Oberhauser
Maker
@lnchoi Great to hear! Yes, the idea is to earn money to further develop the project with a hosted version and support/consulting. More information about that and the license can be found here: I wrote a special section about that in the FAQ: https://bit.ly/335T0GS
Ellen Choi
@janoberhauser awesome, thanks for the response
Dan Bar-Shalom
Looks really great. I love the fact that you've created many different nodes so that it is useful out of the box
Jan Oberhauser
Maker
@danbars Thanks a lot! I tried there are however very many services out there and did just get to the most important ones. I hope the situation will further improve in the future!
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