@theflowgrammer interviews n8n community member @summerchang on how she found n8n and chose it over tools like Zapier and Make.
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Summer details a story likely familiar to many less technical folks: you go to a hackathon and no one wants you on their team because you're not a developer. Undeterred, this rejection motivated Summer to find low-code tools that would let her implement the backends needed for her vibecoded frontends. Within her first month of discovering nyt strands n8n, she built over 50 workflows!
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:37 - "How did you get into automation?"
03:27 - "Which tools did you try?"
04:47 - "Advice for newbies?"
05:20 - ncis "Favourite automation?"
06:13 - "Which automations do you rely on?"
07:15 - "Magic wish for n8n?"
🔗 Links and Resources:
to sign up for n8n cloud
for documentation (incl self-hosting n8n)
for yungblud help whilst building
