Huginn VS n8n

Also check out https://nodered.org/ and https://github.com/huginn/huginn if you're interested in free and open-source software you can run yourself.

Myself, I'd probably prefer to use something like Huginn to create a customized approach to all of my online platforms I'm interested in, rather than a curated list.

https://github.com/huginn/huginn

I skipped to chapter 9 in the article ("Clogged"), and it looked like Pipes failed because it didn't have a large enough team or a well-defined mission. As a result they couldn't offer a super robust product that would lure in enterprise users. "You could not purchase some number of guaranteed-to-work Pipes calls per month" is the quote from the article.

The reason I think that interesting is because that's the model these days for everything from AI tokens to Monday.com seats. It makes me feel like Pipes was before its time.

That said I've been collecting different "business glue" products that are similar to Pipes. To me, like you say, they aren't as interesting, exciting and intuitive as Pipes was, but maybe it just takes a little more digging. I tried to focus on open source tools but some aren't.

- n8n io: https://n8n.io/integrations/mondaycom/

- Node-RED: https://nodered.org/ (just read about this one in this thread)

- trigger dev: trigger.dev

- automatisch.io: https://automatisch.io/docs/

- Activepieces: https://www.activepieces.com/docs/getting-started/introducti...

- Huginn: https://github.com/huginn/huginn

- budibase: https://budibase.com/

- windmill: https://www.windmill.dev/

- tooljet: https://www.tooljet.com/workflows

- Bracket: https://www.usebracket.com/pricing (just SalesForce <-> PostgreSQL)

- Zapier: zapier.com/

Anyway I hope some of these are fun!

"correct" is a value judgement that depends on lots of different things. Only you can decide which tool is correct. Here are some ideas:

- https://camel.apache.org/

- https://www.windmill.dev/

- https://github.com/huginn/huginn

Your idea about a queue (in redis, or postgres, or sqlite, etc) is also totally valid. These off-the-shelf tools I listed probably wouldn't give you a huge advantage IMO.

Huginn (https://github.com/huginn/huginn) has like some 39K stars on Github and the use cases it covered looks good.

Huginn is an another useful tool that allows you to wrangle CSS selectors and XPath nodes to create RSS feeds.

I use it quite successfully to get data out of undocumented APIs and out into RSS.

https://github.com/huginn/huginn

I know of Huginn that could be usefull depending on what you want to do.

n8n stands for Node Automation. It’s an open-source platform that lets you connect different apps, move data between them, and build powerful automations.

n8n isn’t just automation — with the right modules, it becomes a powerful AI agent platform.

Navigate to the n8n website. Open your browser and go to n8n.io.

In today’s productivity-obsessed world, manually handling repetitive business processes isn’t just inefficient — it’s a waste of your team's creative energy. That’s where tools like n8n come in. This open-source workflow automation tool lets you connect APIs, trigger logic, and build powerful systems visually.

Picture this: it's Friday after a week filled with countless online meetings. The details blur, and writing meeting notes is the last thing you want to do. Imagine having a personal bot that joins your meetings, records everything, and emails you concise summaries and action items. In this tutorial, we'll build exactly that using n8n, a powerful low-code automation tool, combined with ChatterBox's meeting bot API and OpenAI's summarization capabilities. This AI-driven workflow detects your upcoming meetings from Google Calendar, dispatches a bot to transcribe them, and then emails you a succinct summary right afterward—saving you valuable time and effort.

I want to start by saying, this not a guide or post explaining how to use tools like n8n or ToolHouse AI (By the way, already written a blog about how to use ToolHouse AI, you can read it by going here).

I recently built an automated email outreach system using n8n + OpenAI, and it only sends emails during the lead's local business hours.

n8n

How sophisticated your language is depends only on your whim, honestly. Even most automatization solutions like Make or n8n make do with just simple connections between node bubbles, with edges only signifying the execution flow. They balance it out with complex node editors, and values from other blocks are used in templates like how you would write a Nunjucks-templated HTML page. A more gamedev-related example is Twine.