“i've been using n8n for a while and haven't noticed anything catastrophic on my end, but i'm also not on twitter so maybe i'm missing the drama. 740k views is wild though, that's not just a few power users complaining”
“The reliability part is underrated. Claude Code/Cursor is great for writing a one-off script, but a script doesn't have a webhook listener sitting there 24/7, doesn't retry on failure, doesn't have a visual execution log you can check when something breaks at 3am, and doesn't let a non-technical teammate glance at the flow and understand what happens.”
“I made mine took me around 2 weeks and I self hosted n8n and chatgpt,claude,Gemini free versions help me understand the node stuff, I use Google studio free tier for my setup, it gets my complete office work done muaaaa”
“that's a solid workflow. i'm curious, did you run into any particular headaches with the PDF generation itself, especially with formatting across different data sets?”
“i used to use n8n quite a bit building for businesses and myself, it’s been a little while since i’ve used it but i’d love to hop on a call and see if i can help”
“On n8n 2.x I also hit multipart/form-data problems talking to Gotenberg (415/500). A small local proxy that accepts JSON { html } and forwards to Gotenberg with curl fixed it for me.”
“Tracking threshold duration based on historical patterns is brilliant way, cleaner than getting spammed with false positive alerts during expected quiet windows. Do you handle that time tracking state inside n8n directly (like updating a Redis/data store key on each run), or just querying the execution history table to calculate the gap?”
“N8n is reliable, workflows are easily created with Claude Code ( and the appropriate skills ), tons of maintained connectors available, and it's much more secure than an agent with keys stored in a text file.”
“I have said it many times, automation like N8N great for starter and test the concept, especially it already have many built-in 3rd party integration. But once we're going to scale or have advanced function, having it in programming code are more reliable & maintainable like FastApi or any API that we develop traditionally.”
“N8n is great for quickly hacking something and putting it in production but then when it grows is a mess to maintain, slow, fragile, expensive to run.”
“I still use N8N, but only for small things. It's now pretty easy to automate things with AI coding. Though N8N does provide some additional benefits like logging, re-execution of failed workflows, etc..”
“You’re ignoring that n8n and other low code tools are defined in structured markup files (text). Models can generate those just as easily while still providing the human the top-down “at a glance” visual presentation of structure and functionality.”
“as a self-hoster, n8n locks too many things behind the paywall - it should've sticked to paywalling integrations with enterprise software like Jira etc. (which I guess they also do?), not OIDC.”
“Tools like n8n, Zapier, and Make exist to connect the apps a business already uses, so information can move between them automatically based on rules you define.”
“I work in big tech and never understood the appeal of n8n. Literally never felt the need to use it at all. I’d see some of our non-engineering folks preach their complex n8n flowcharts and find it amusing.”
“I'd argue the only difference that remains is the visibility and transparency that n8n offers to the process. You can see how it works, and you can see where it fails.”
“Yeah i used to have n8n run workflows to convert my downloaded files into certain formats and rename them according to convention. Works perfectly well. I eventually switched to CI based scripts to have more control over the code customisation but n8n was more than capable if you know what you are doing with it.”
“I was deep into n8n for a solid stretch self-hosted setups, complex workflows, the whole thing. Felt like it had real momentum for a while. Now it barely comes up in conversations unless someone specifically asks about it.”
“There's an n8n MCP - literally get Claude to search for the best n8n MCP and have it configure it, then tell it the workflows you want. I've literally got CC setting up some workflow automations for me right now.”
“If you can swing the oracle free tier I'd just move it over there, the ARM instance handles n8n way better than you'd expect and you don't gotta deal with HA's reverse proxy quirks”
“Splitting the 24 hr procedure reminder and the aftercare/review flow into separate sub-workflows makes error handling way easier to manage in production. I build heavy n8n backends daily and running the aftercare trigger on a delay node can get messy if an instance restarts, so pushing those downstream triggers to a dedicated cron or queue state keeps it from dropping patients.”
“**For those who have run both: is it better to keep n8n inside HAOS on local hardware, or is running a dedicated Docker instance on a free cloud VPS the cleaner, more reliable path?**”
“n8n now lets you describe a workflow and AI builds it for you, replacing the blank canvas drag-and-drop process with a describe, review and adjust loop before going live.”
“But for someone who doesn’t code, tools like n8n, Make, and Integrately are a pretty big deal because you can connect different apps and automate workflows without knowing APIs or writing code.”