Bret

What do people use n8n for? I keep seeing people sing its praises so I had a look.. Everything just looks to be AI generated content, or things that should probably just a script and a cron job? 🤔

Maybe I'm looking for a solution to a problem I don't have.. 😅

Dec 26 at 6:51pmWeb
Show threadnaamvalDec 26
@bret They are leaning quite heavily into AI, but it's very useful for stringing together any number of services, like IFTTT does. Things like 'when I 'favorite' a Mastodon post, the post should be stored in Notion'. Personally, among other things, I have used it for a scientific study in which I scraped websites, translated their content via DeepL, then stored the output in a structured way (with metadata) in Baserow. Very intuitive and time-saving (compared to programming everything myself).
Show threadBretDec 27
@naamval OK so those actually sound like decent options, and I suppose the fact you can get workflows running quickly is nice when I think about the “script and cron” option!