N8n.io – Workflow automation alternative to Zapier
Thanks a lot for posting! Even though I had actually planned to post it later myself ;-) Happy to see my project finally live on hacker news!n8n is a free node-based "Open Source" (Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause) Workflow Automation Tool. It can be self-hosted, easily extended, and so also used with internal tools.
Currently, there is no hosted version yet but you can sign up on the website if you are interested to get informed once it is ready.I created it initially because I realized that every time I wrote a script to automate a small task it took me a very long time. Depending on the task it normally involved: reading documentation, writing code, committing to Github, deploying on a server, error reporting, SSL, make sure it restarts on a crash, and so on. So even very small tasks took at least half a day or day till everything was up and running properly. Existing Open Source solutions were not up to the task and also commercial ones like Zapier did not work for various reasons. Some being that they do not work well with in-house tools or complicated tasks and it gets expensive quite fast, ...So hope n8n is as helpful for other people as it is for me. Also, all help with further improving the project and create more integrations is very welcome!The project website with the nodes which exist and example workflows:https://n8n.ioYou can find the source code on Github:
https://github.com/n8n-io/n8nThe whole project is written in TypeScript and uses Vue for the frontend. So it should be easily extendable for everybody with web development experience.If you have any problems, questions or need an integration which does not exist yet you can post it to the forum:
http://community.n8n.ioDocumentation can be found here:
https://docs.n8n.ioYour feedback is highly appreciated!Thanks a lot!!UPDATE:[Sorry are unable to answer any questions right now as it always displays me that I am posting to fast. Will answer as soon as HN allows me!]