Thanks for hunting n8n, @chrismessina ! Very excited to have n8n now finally properly out in the open. n8n is a free node-based "Open Source" (Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause) Workflow Automation Tool. It can be self-hosted, easily extended, and so also used with internal tools. Currently, there is no hosted version yet but you can sign up on the website if you are interested to get informed once it is ready. I created it initially because I realized that every time I wrote a script to automate a small task it took me a very long time. Depending on the task it normally involved: reading documentation, writing code, committing to Github, deploying on a server, error reporting, SSL, make sure it restarts on a crash, and so on. So even very small tasks took at least half a day or day till everything was up and running properly. Existing Open Source solutions were not up to the task and also commercial ones like Zapier did not work for various reasons. Some being that they do not work well with in-house tools or complicated tasks and it gets expensive quite fast, ... So hope n8n is as helpful for other people as it is for me. Also, all help with further improving the project and create more integrations is very welcome! You can find the source code on Github: https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n The whole project is written in TypeScript and uses Vue for the frontend. So it should be easily extendable for everybody with web development experience. If you have any problems, questions or need an integration which does not exist yet you can post it to the forum: http://community.n8n.io Documentation can be found here: https://docs.n8n.io Your feedback is highly appreciated! Thanks a lot!!

@janoberhauser This looks like an awesome tool to help automate some of the No Code workflows @bentossell is cooking up with @makerpad

I can attest that this works like Zapier on Steroids. Personally have used it to sync Google sheets which can be finicky with =importrange and n8n works wonders. We also use this to sync between a bubble.io created app and our back-end and it works like a charm. @janoberhauser also a very responsive guy who helped me a lot in the early set-up. Cannot recommend it high enough. It was a total game changer for our company.

Congrats on launching, @janoberhauser 🚀 We have quite a few scripts buried in our website code that do stuff like Slack notifications. For easier maintenance, I could totally imagine moving them to n8n. You mentioned a hosted solution. Does that mean people can use n8n without having to set up a server with Docker etc, similar to Zapier where you just sign up? I think this would be a great addition, as the local/Docker version could be a blocker for some folks who are not familiar with deployment. What are the next steps for n8n?

Looks like a great alternative to Zapier, nice work!

Hell ya this is awesome. Firing up the docker container right now to give it a spin.

We use Zapier a lot to meet our client requirements, most of them are bloggers and always ask us to get the work done within the free plan of Zapier. I'm definitely going to give n8n a try. If this works out for them then this will definitely add value to the support we provide to them. @janoberhauser Thank you for building this.

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Open Source if the keep the same code base with the hosted version, what else can you ask for?

This looks great to go 👍

Seems interesting. Can be used by someone who doesn't know how to code?

Awesome product!! Hoping you can monetize this real fast without having to go closed source

I basically look up "open source Zapier" every week! Can't wait to deploy it and extend it

Yooooo...Wow. Really. I came, saw it, installed it with Docker and love it. Congrats !!

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 ?

@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.

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How do I create a workflow? Getting "There was a problem creating the workflow: The workflow does not have any connections set"

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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?