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.

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 ?

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?

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

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

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

This looks absolutely fantastic! Please provide a hosted version soon which would be even more fantastic :D

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?

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

Hey! This looks fantastic @janoberhauser . I work with an NGO that relies a lot on no-code apps and zapier but would love to give this a spin. How easy would it be to host on firebase instead of a server?

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

I'm impressed! Good job @janoberhauser

Looking for Facebook ads and Hubspot

Looking for fb ads and hubspot

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!!

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

Looks like a great alternative to Zapier, nice work!

Can I just use the code base and integrate with my project ? should I pay for integrating the entire thing into my existing project to give more functionality and can I also modify it?

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

@janoberhauser - Love what you've done with n8n.io and also congratulations on launching n8n.cloud. Where can I find a list (or if you can give me) a list of SaaS apps that might be powering their automation workfflow features with n8n.io? Would love to try them out and see how they have integrated n8n into their platforms. Thank you!