n8n
How vibe coders and indie builders use n8n: 78 projects built with it and 25 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
78
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.4%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
25
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- Make 15
- Zapier 14
- Claude API 9
- PostgreSQL 8
- OpenAI API 8
- Claude Code 7
- Next.js 7
- Gemini API 7
What's built with it
Latest projects built with n8n
- WorkWing — Schedules field jobs for office staff and gives engineers an offline phone app to view their day and fill in job forms.“Field service software with no invoicing or CRM”
- Handed Commons — Provides a shared memory store that multiple chatbots can write to and read from through a REST API with remember and recall calls.“I launched a shared memory service for chatbots - one memory all of a client's bots share”
- Aloware partner discovery agent — Finds HubSpot implementation agencies, enriches their decision-maker contacts, and sends personalized outreach sequences proposing a reseller partnership.“We automated our entire HubSpot partner discovery pipeline. Here's how we find and reach out to implementation agencies at scale”
- Doyouok — Alerts you when a scheduled job or cron task fails to check in on its expected schedule.“I built Doyouok to know when my cron jobs silently stop running”
- Shorts Factory Engine — Generates short documentary-style videos from prompts using Google Veo via a self-hosted Docker, n8n and Redis pipeline, with word-level subtitles and Telegram delivery.“I got tired of SaaS tools charging expensive monthly fees for AI video credits, so I built an autonomous self-hosted documentary engine (Docker + n8n + Veo)”
- n8n automation workflows — Automates client onboarding, lead scouting, restaurant bookings, tenant messaging and medical appointment workflows through n8n pipelines.“I created 5 production ready n8n automation systems for various industries, and here are some lessons I learned, when I connected 500+ nodes together.”
- I built a custom OMS for… — Syncs Shopify orders into a dispatch queue, updates courier tracking automatically, and matches cash-on-delivery payouts to individual orders to flag mismatches.“I built a custom OMS for Shopify brands to replace Excel-based dispatch tracking and COD reconciliation”
- Instagram caption generator — Turns an article URL into seven platform-ready Instagram captions with hashtags and saves them to Google Sheets.“Built an n8n automation that turns any article into 7 Instagram captions”
- Built 51 PDF/document tools for… — Offers 51 document-processing tools (convert, merge, split, compress, OCR, data extraction, redaction, PDF generation from templates) as REST endpoints with a visual flow builder for chaining them.“Built 51 PDF/document tools for people who don't code. Tear it apart.”
- Bredbox — Stores saved articles in a personal reading library that can be accessed and managed through a REST API.“I wanted Pocket, but with an API. So I built it.”
- Built a competitor hiring… — Tracks competitor job postings by department and seniority and saves them to Postgres for trend analysis.“Built a competitor hiring tracker in n8n, not sure what to use for the dashboard”
- gemini-spendcap-proxy — Proxies Gemini API requests with a hard monthly spend cap, soft-limit warnings, and exact-match response caching.“I solved pain point of Gemini key users!!!!!!!!”
- YakWP — Runs a self-hosted AI chatbot on a WordPress site that answers visitor questions from site content using the owner's own API key.“[FREEMIUM] I built a self-hosted AI chatbot for WordPress — it started as my Upwork portfolio piece, now it's a real product”
- Japan Deal Flow — Scrapes Japanese business-for-sale listings weekly, translates them, converts prices to AUD, and emails a digest of five picks.“I built a scraper that translates Japan's business-for-sale market into English”
- Forum Seeder — Schedules and posts seed threads to forums the user has verified they own, using the forum's own login after DNS or HTML file ownership checks.“I just made a forum seeding tool I've used for years public”
Latest add-ons built for n8n
- I changed one sentence on my… — Offers a paywall and free trial for a mobile app that helps n8n users, and the author is A/B testing its copy.“I changed one sentence on my paywall… and free trial starts dropped. Which version would you choose?”
- MemorySync — Stores decisions and preferences from AI agent sessions and retrieves them in later sessions across tools via MCP.“I spent 2 years building and 0 days building an audience. Launched on Product Hunt, finished around #230 with almost no votes. Roast the product, not the launch.”
- Supergreen — Runs headless WhatsApp and Telegram sessions in isolated Docker containers pinned to static proxies, exposed via REST endpoints and webhooks.“Meta's WhatsApp billing changes killed my side project margins. Here is how I solved the headless session problem.”
- StackPilot — Monitors n8n workflow runs and sends Slack alerts when API cost exceeds a set limit, a run fails, or a workflow goes silent.“[StackPilot] - a tiny tool that pings me before my n8n workflows quietly burn through my api budget”
- Midwatch — Monitors automation workflows and cron jobs externally, alerting when schedules go quiet, runs fail, or production workflows are edited.“Launched my monitoring SaaS after dogfooding it for 2 months on my own agency. It caught its own bugs before any customer could. Current customers: 0”
- Observa — Observes AI agent workflow activity and checks whether downstream results match the intended action.“Im building a SaaS around a boring AI problem: did the agent actually do what it said it did?”
- onesend — Sends transactional emails such as password resets, receipts and notifications from servers located entirely in the EU.“I built an EU alternative to AWS SES - give me your honest feedback on it. DON't hold back!”
- Tamperlens — Inspects the internal structure of PDF, Office, and image files to report tampering signals such as post-signing edits, unremoved redactions, and hidden prompt-injection text.“I built a Document Trust API — is this PDF edited, did its redactions actually hold, is it safe for an LLM to read?”
- AI Factory — Generates custom n8n integration nodes from GitHub repositories, libraries or docs using AI, then builds, tests and packages them.“I built an AI Factory that turns GitHub repos into custom n8n nodes — looking for honest feedback”
- OpenBox.ai — Enforces external governance controls on AI agents, including action permissions, human approval gates, behavioural rules, and auditable action logs.“We’re building a governance layer for AI agents. Do SaaS teams actually need this?”
- v1 of my n8n node now published — Provides an n8n community node that connects n8n workflows to a service, with Make and Zapier integrations planned.“v1 of my n8n node now published”
- Built an AI agent that reads… — Drafts contextual replies to unread Gmail messages with Claude and saves them as drafts for human review.“Built an AI agent that reads business emails and drafts replies automatically”
- Workflow (n8n etc) Extensive… — Simulates n8n automation workflows to test every connected node and flag missing safeguards like rate limiting and failure notifications.“Workflow (n8n etc) Extensive tester. Questions”
- SafeAI — Statically analyzes AI agent codebases for prompts, tool permissions, autonomy, memory and governance risks.“New OSS project: SafeAI — Static AI Capability & Risk Analyzer”
- indie.money — Lets creators publish n8n-compatible agents with a per-run price and collects payment from each run.“i kept selling automations once while they ran forever for someone else, so i built per run billing. beta is open”
Pitched as alternatives to n8n
- Brovio — Runs browser automation workflows built from drag-and-drop nodes, letting a cloud browser perform tasks on sites without APIs and showing a replay of each run.“built an open-source visual workflow builder for browser automation, you describe the task in English and watch a real browser do it”
- Luffy — Runs recurring team work asynchronously across company tools from inside Slack, escalating to a human only for decisions or approvals.“We rebuilt Luffy’s website — what should we improve, and what should we not change?”
- Atlas — Runs a recurring task described in one sentence on a schedule and emails the result.“Every AI landing page looks the same. Mine did too — here’s how I fixed it.”
- FLUJO — Lets users build visual AI workflows that combine models from multiple providers and connect them to MCP servers, runnable by chat or triggers.“I am giving away 50usd in openrouter API credits”
- Assemblix — Lets users build LLM agent workflows visually on a canvas and run and debug them live across multiple model providers.“We built this for our own school, other schools wanted it, so we made it self-hostable”
- Madyis Hub — Combines CRM, support, pipelines, messaging, forms, bookings, calendar and third-party integrations in one white-label platform with an AI assistant.“8 months of development. 1 month live. 120 users. Some are already using it to build a new revenue stream.”
- CortexPrism — Runs a self-hosted AI agent platform that bundles agent loops, memory, tools, multi-LLM routing, and chat channel integrations in one binary.“I got tired of stitching LangChain + Open WebUI + ChromaDB together. So I built a single binary that does everything.”
- Duhflow — Turns plain-English descriptions of automations into hosted workflows that connect apps and run repeatedly.“I’m building an AI tool that creates automations from plain English is this actually useful?”
- I built a system to get clients — Scrapes Google Maps business leads, qualifies them with AI, drafts cold emails and replies for client approval, and books calendar appointments.“I built a system to get clients. Then the system became the problem.”
- My boss asked me to print 30+… — Silently prints batches of uploaded documents to a local printer without showing browser print dialogs, using a web app, Chrome extension, and local script.“My boss asked me to print 30+ documents today. I almost cried until I remembered I built a SaaS for this.”
- Mindra — Runs teams of specialized AI agents that execute multi-step business workflows across connected software tools.“AI Agent Teams You Can Delegate To - Just Launched”