“Yeah it’s bunk if you script well and can orchestrate some with a server. Aside from N8n and zapper click ops type workflow tools, SOAR and IaaC tools often have you just resorting script modules.”
“The one thing that keeps pulling me back is the connectors. Setting up auth for Gmail or a CRM by hand is annoying, and these tools just hand it to you.”
“As a non technical entrepreneur that spend a LOT of time automating my work, I ditched n8n earlier this month, and made codex built the same infrastructure on a VPS.”
“We run 130+ n8n workflows in production at our MSP, and the killer feature isn't any one node — it's that n8n is the glue between tools that were never designed to talk to each other.”
“When I build an n8n workflow I know exactly what the agents are doing. I trust the agents because I built them. There is full accountability and full transparency.”
“For client work the thing that decides it for me is whose account the credentials sit in. On their own n8n instance the Meta and Google tokens belong to them and offboarding me is one password change, whereas with a pile of scripts I end up still holding tokens for a business I stopped working with a year ago.”
“No reason to stick with n8n but if you don’t want to manage infrastructure that could be nice. If you’re willing to self host the workflow orchestrator, there’re good open source options such as Temporal or Dagu.”
“Claude wrote a bunch of n8n automations for me that doesn't use tokens after they've been programmed. There's a degree of overlap for some use cases but generally different tools to get different types of jobs done.”
“I tried to get into n8n maybe like 2 years ago, but I got turned off by the limitations of the OSS version. Also as a developer I like code, so no-code is a turn off for me.”
“Any repeatable deterministic actions or processes should be built out in n8n so they can be executed extremely cheaply, as opposed to having a coding agent do it, where you are burning through thousands or even millions of tokens in the process every single time. Then you just set up an agent to monitor, diagnose, troubleshoot, and report on a regular basis.”
“My plan is to use Claude to make the n8n workflow. Have OpenClaw check in on it from time to time and fix it (because I don't have Claude on a machine that is always on).”
“I run both: Claude Code for the exploratory layer, n8n as the job scheduler that logs everything and wakes me up when something breaks. The skill isn't transferable because you're learning pipeline design, not prompt wrangling.”
“Used N8N late 2024-early 2025 a lot. But I just don't see its value anymore. AI tools like Cursor/Claude Code can do everything that N8N does and more.”