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What are you using n8n for? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 7 months ago by dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I see n8n everywhere and while I love automation I can't think of a use case, that couldn't be realized in Bash instead.

So I'm wondering, if you use n8n what are you using it for?

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Are there any a|ternatives to n8n?

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The helpfully named site AlternativeTo is good for such questions. It's populated by users and served me well over the years.

IFTTT and Zapier are the primary non-self-hosted alternatives, both have been around for ages and have lots of available integrations.

Node-RED and Huginn are the self-hosted alternatives. Huginn is older than both n8n and Node-RED, afaik, and seems to be primarily focused on online queries like updates to a webpage.

In the end I haven't used any of the self-hosted ones, since I'm more of a code guy, so can't say if one is better than another for anything.

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I tried Huginn first but I found the documentation better for n8n, and it was easier to use.