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?

  • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    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.

    • branch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      16 hours ago

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