What people previously said about n8n

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“@attenisalluneed I will also create n8n bot that generates ideas based on the top queries from Google search console API with Telegram approval feature. Then I will create automation for writing them in the tone I want using AI.”
ghadeerrmajeed · x ·
“When MCP wiring fails across URL, SSE, and env setups, it's rarely just one bad toggle. It's almost always a schema or transport mismatch between what Hermes expects and what the n8n MCP server is actually exposing.”
ParrotIntegrated · reddit ·
“What you will be short on is cores, and that failure looks like flaky n8n rather than a starved model.”
Jesuisguignol · reddit ·
“Wenn du die Möglichkeit hast selbst zu hosten kannst du n8n oder activePieces auch selbst betreiben.”
ConscientiaHumana · reddit ·
“what are its advantages and disadvantages now? I drop n8n for so long.”
Top_Put3773 · reddit ·
“Meanwhile, another us €12,000 to stop typing 7,000 invoices a year into their CRM by hand. They'd never heard of n8n.”
Mike_Scully_ · x ·
“Any real database fixes both, which is why everyone here says Postgres and they are not wrong.”
nerd_rage218 · reddit ·
“We created an n8n workflow for a restaurant group that was struggling to keep up with phone bookings during busy dinner hours. Instead of relying on pre-made SaaS solutions, we wanted to have complete control over the data and logic, so we connected Vapi directly to our self-hosted n8n and WhatsApp Cloud API.”
Shoddy_Branch5364 · reddit ·
“Middle ground if you still want the visual builder: self-host n8n community edition on a five dollar box. Keep Make or n8n cloud for the workflows your non-technical people need to build themselves.”
gustaw221133 · reddit ·
“That’s where you setup a n8n workflow to perform a maintenance edit to a table. Something like adding a timestamp or random number to a row should help.”
darkdevman · reddit ·
“i've been using n8n for almost a year now and in almost all of my workflows i used google sheet as db. recently i haven't been able to use it for more complicated workflows.”
Rare_Kale_8010 · reddit ·
“Ask you LLM specifically what it would take to eliminate your need to use n8n, make, Zapier etc. with a no-code solution. Lot of cool ways to do this from open weight models to custom configuration of supabase, vercel, etc”
AgentVN · reddit ·
“MCP is easy to set up as long as some there is some n8n url which it can access. If you can tell about the specific error you are receiving then I can probably help more”
Scary-Difference630 · reddit ·
“PaperlessNGX (as well as some other tools) - changes/updates/uploads -> n8n Webhook > Triggers export to Backblaze B2 within 5mins (and only once within 5mins). Now how to run n8n in HA?”
anurag_bhatia · x ·
“Does n8n even understand how hot they are right now?”
adamislucky · x ·
“I've been poking at this for a couple weeks now and the DWD setup through n8n is surprisingly straightforward once you get past the initial Google Cloud console maze. The service account + domain-wide delegation combo works clean, but the OAuth scope selection tripped me up at first because the docs aren't super clear on which ones you actually need.”
AwkwardWay2331 · reddit ·
“I thought of creating a drag and drop code modules for the no code or low code platform like n8n or something like that for creating agents, Is there any project that I can refer?”
venkat_206 · reddit ·
“n8n host: A $5-10/mo VPS (Hetzner, DigitalOcean) with a domain and SSL for the incoming webhooks.”
uriwa · reddit ·
“I have been using these for quite some time and feel they become quite expensive who uses them for repetitive tasks”
Connect_Fill_7739 · reddit ·
“One of our n8n workflows completed successfully every time while producing zero results. The source data was fine and every execution was marked "success." We only found out because a separate hourly script compared the input material against the output count.”
quiet_desk_dev · reddit ·
“Need Help with n8n mcp setup, tried everything, pls help!”
Thin-War-4593 · reddit ·
“E a resposta direta para sua dúvida sobre se vale a pena aprender é sim, pois o n8n é uma das ferramentas mais populares atualmente quando se fala em automação e criação de agentes de IA.”
Weird-Dealer8488 · reddit ·
“Why n8n is a good idea? It is one of the most used tools at the moment. It has a huge base of users so it will be easier to find gigs.”
kirnski_ · reddit ·
“I built a free tool to catch *silent* failures in n8n workflows (200 OK but wrong output)”
Fabulous-Account-302 · reddit ·
“Everything I write in n8n is for internal use at the moment.”
cfmdobbie · reddit ·
“I mean you could automate all of those things fairly easily outside of the natural language part with just n8n and no AI.”
abdicatereason · reddit ·
“How can I improve error handling and duplicate lead detection in this n8n workflow?”
Left-Blackberry-1536 · reddit ·
“How did you find out an n8n workflow silently stopped?”
masani3llo · reddit ·
“A lot of businesses are moving from n8n to own TypeScript/JavaScript backends again, so I'd personally also start learning those, it's what we'll also focus on with Nyno.”
EveYogaTech · reddit ·
“Supabase stores our internal datasets (companies,”
dan__rosenthal · x ·
“N8n is a great tool with not a lot of flash. Workato is more refined.”
mcgunner1966 · reddit ·
“This matches what I’ve been seeing when wiring agents into n8n: the interesting break is the session model, not the deprecation list.”
InjuryThen9650 · reddit ·
“The Redis-backed session layer is the detail that makes this click. The deprecations sound bigger, but n8n may eventually need to rethink how state survives between calls. Definitely more than “transport cleanup.””
Shanmuga_Raj__ · reddit ·
“The n8n trigger is built on the older shape, and not lightly. It mints a session id per connection and registers it on initialize. Behind that sits a whole session subsystem: a session manager with an idle timeout, and session stores backed by memory or Redis.”
Wild-Lawyer8511 · reddit ·
“Moving off Zapier gets you speed and cost control, but now you own alerting, retention, upgrades, and the 2 AM "why didn't this webhook fire" problem.”
HoneyedLips43 · reddit ·
“Activepieces >>>> n8n”
ogMasterPloKoon · reddit ·
“Migrated 42 workflows from Zapier to self-hosted n8n on Hetzner ($248/mo down to $7.70/mo)”
Kidut007 · reddit ·
“Honestly n8n is not the best considering we've claude code and other agentic harness. I mean dont get me wrong but whatever you build inside n8n can be done more efficiently and include all the edge cases without you knowing coding or being technical.”
Live_Interest_6840 · reddit ·
“If established, n8n makes more sense to them.”
Dangerous-Pin8129 · reddit ·
“N8n is the next thing, forgot about that old (fees month) tool. Now it's trigger.dev + agentoc AI, n8n is dead. In a few month, forget about trigger.dev, we now have <insert new fancy tool name>”
Mission-Try-6949 · reddit ·
“N8N will give you the foundations, but jumping to an off the shelf Harness will massively improve your understanding of agentic systems.”
ZyberZeon · reddit ·
“Hey I am learning n8n right now but whenever I open social media generally And see how powerful agentic ai gets I feel scared because I actually want to work as a freelancer using my n8n skill”
Powerful_Basket_4685 · reddit ·
“You know better ways than Redis to handle that in N8N? )”
Ill_Dare8819 · reddit ·
“n8n is great for complex workflows. Sometimes you just need something simpler.”
MMIA18EMV · x ·
“You should first clean up your DB, also if’s crashing on prem, whatever you are doing (or not doing), is going to crash it on the VPS. I assume you are using postgres, otherwise sqlite won’t handle many requests and concurrency.”
WallaceFred · reddit ·
“Anyone have experience migrating N8N databases off on-prem?”
SinisterNightNa · reddit ·
“We used to do the py scripts way already and then I heard of n8n as a lot of people were raving about it, So I wanted to try it out, only to realize this is a dumbed down version of what I was doing anyway. Ended up not doing n8n at all.”
mail-o-mail · reddit ·
“One practical split is to make the workflow an asynchronous job worker: the backend authenticates the user, writes a job row, then calls the webhook with only the job ID. Return that ID immediately and let the UI read status and results from your backend; don't expose the workflow URL or let the browser talk to n8n directly.”
coldbrew_jay · reddit ·
“I just realised that I prefer n8n because of visibility. Because of UI with automations Inhave, because I have UI to monitor failed executions.”
e3e6 · reddit ·
“It's been a while since I've used N8N”
GhostBI_Team · reddit ·