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"Our best week ever was the week OpenAI killed us." That's Jan Oberhauser on the launch of OpenAI's agent builder, which was supposed to end n8n and instead produced one of their fastest growth weeks on record. His explanation for why is more interesting than the flex. When a frontier lab ships something in your category, the category gets talked about. More people learn the problem exists. A fraction of them go looking for the tool that handles it properly. He says they've been declared…
Aakash Gupta@aakashguptaOct 5
n8n was the hottest AI product of 2025. Then Claude Code ate its lunch. Or did it? I had on CEO Jan Oberhauser. It turns out, @n8n_io is actually doing better than ever. They grew over 10x the last year. You see, this isn't the first time n8n has been declared dead. They were declared dead when ChatGPT came out. Then they become the tool to build AI on. They were declared dead when OpenAI launched AgentKit. Then they had their biggest week ever. They were declared dead with Claude Code. And they've been growing relentlessly anyways. It's an insane story with great product lessons. I got to the bottom of it all in today's episode: https://youtu.be/PkoX6R5sn8Y
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