<p>In general, I finally got around to testing <a href="https://n8n.io">https://n8n.io</a>;. I decided to have a personal hackathon over the weekend and build a system that will monitor my blog on Telegram (since that’s my main source for writing my thoughts) and automatically rewrite them (translate to English, write in style, break into parts, add tags, etc.) to other social networks (for now just LinkedIn and Threads).</p>
<p><strong>Stage 1:</strong> wow, this is cool, convenient, I’ll set up the whole system in an hour<br>
<strong>Stage 2:</strong> damn, nothing here is obvious from a UI perspective, it seems this will take longer than I thought<br>
<strong>Stage 3:</strong> spent 1.5 hours figuring out how to make n8n remember a variable value in a loop<br>
<strong>Stage 4:</strong> screw this n8n, it would be easier and faster to do everything in Python</p>
<p>Conclusion: n8n looks great at first, but in my opinion, it’s practically impossible for non-programmers to figure out (unless we’re talking about really simple cases), and for programmers, the functionality is too limited - it’s easier to write in pure Python.</p>
<p>P.S. the resulting Threads isn’t perfect, but it’s tolerable <a href="https://www.threads.com/@rvnikita/post/DJODcFXhGmg">https://www.threads.com/@rvnikita/post/DJODcFXhGmg</a><br>;
I’ll need to work more on the prompt.</p>
<p>P.P.S. By the way, there’s a hack where when you copy a configured workflow in n8n, it’s actually stored in the clipboard as JSON. So you can copy it with the prompt “based on this n8n automation, write a Python project” and it does something similar but in Python.</p>
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