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Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.

59 mentions on Hacker News by 51 people: 9 stories, 50 comments · first 2019-10-08 · latest 2026-05-20

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  1. …used violates central tenets of what open source is. You can read about this is copious detail at https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/40
  2. …being source available. The author goes to pretty great lengths to avoid confronting this fact. https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/40
  3. …their webpage while publishing the product with a proprietary license. A lot of discussions ensued. https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/40
  4. …n8n's node-based approach makes it highly versatile, enabling you to map anything to everything. https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n Open positions: Full Stack Developer - Mid level/Senior, Technical writer intern https://jobs.n8n.io/
    comment by janober · 2020-06-02 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)
  5. …n8n is not[1] Open Source, despite claiming to be "Open Source and so free" on their website[2]. 1: https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/blob/master/LICENSE.md 2: https://n8n.io/
  6. …[1]: https://commonsclause.com/ , see FAQ, heading "Is this “Open Source”?" [2]: https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/40
    comment by eitland · 2019-10-11 · in Zettelkästen?
  7. …is that I change it. Everything is solved anyway. If my decision is to keep it we can proceed here: https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/40
  8. …The issue I filed here also includes 11 votes against at the time of writing: https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/40 Setting an arbitrarily high bar of 100 votes for a poll which will never leave /new is just more gaslighting. What's y
  9. …the nodes which exist and example workflows: https://n8n.io You can find the source code on Github: https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n The whole project is written in TypeScript and uses Vue for the frontend. So it should be easily extendable…