Today n8n turned 7. October 8, 2019 marked the day we hit Product Hunt and n8n really started taking off, and we count it as our official birthday. At that time, @jan had already been working for about a year on a system to make automation accessible to everyone (one of his earliest workflows checked his local restaurants’ menus, so he didn’t have to. Isn’t laziness the best driver behind innovation?).
His decision to build a source-available product that you can self-host for free directly led to a community of loyal users and developers.
Seven years later, what started as a side project has grown into a team of over 400 people building one of the leading platforms for workflow-based AI automation.
I was one of those community members myself. I was in love with n8n years before I joined the team, and it has always been a real joy to work ‘on the inside’ with this passionate team and our amazing community. Next week in Berlin, we’ll welcome over 800 of you at our first n8n conference, In The Loop. What a milestone.
Thank you, Jan, for building such a great platform, and for being the most community-focused CEO I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with! And to our community: thank you for believing in n8n, challenging us, contributing your ideas, and helping shape what it has become.
Our birthday wish: hear your favorite n8n memory. What’s yours?
(Attached: a screenshot of n8n in October 2019)
