All iPaaS have appealing offerings. I've used several, but none of them provide the On-Premise solution that 8n8 does. This feature allows you to download the tool and integrate it into your private network. I'd argue that this is one of the best features 8n8 has to offer.
Still in love with n8n, I'd want to see improvements in documentation, examples, and more tutorials to grasp its nomenclature. 8n8 offers a lot of wonderful resources, but I'd like to see more and more.
I had a local Excel file with sensitive information, so I downloaded the On-Premise version and did an integration using the HTTP Module to send a post from my Excel file to an in-house developed system, which saved a lot of time for the people who had to fill out the Excel and the department that was in charge of manually entering data from the Excel to the in-house system.
Pricing: Free. Flexibility: Maximum. Code: Fully Available (kinda like open source, almost)
It's still not as user-friendly as major no-code tools, but improving at lightning speed.
My biggest pain point in business for the past years has been getting my different tools to work with each other and avoid silos. I spent years mastering nocode tools like zapier, make (ex integromat) and airtable, and that helped. But I was always frustrated by the limitations and thought I had to become a full-blown developer to get full flexibility as needed. Then I discovered n8n which gives you all the flexibility of full-code when you want it, but all the convenience of no-code when you need. So you get the best of both worlds. For most things you can get away using no-code, but should you need the flexibility it lets you use lo-code to get maximum power. And even super basic beginner javascript already gives you ton of power.
n8n essentially provides a UI on top of rest API's, with minimal abstractions. The design of the visual editor allows for incredible customizability and having access to all API endpoints provides huge amounts of power.
In some cases, using the UI to specify lots of fields can feel cumbersome. In those cases, I often use some code in a function node to more easily create an object.
Automating business processes