n8n Grew 10x Last Year Despite Being Declared Dead Three Times, CEO Says
aakashgupta · x · 2026-10-06
- n8n was among the hottest AI products of 2025, then widely written off as Claude Code ate its lunch — yet CEO Jan Oberhauser says the company grew over 10x in the past year.
- It's not the first time n8n was declared dead: written off when ChatGPT launched (it became the go-to AI building tool), again when OpenAI released AgentKit (it had its biggest week ever), and now with Claude Code — growth never stopped.
- The interview digs into the product lessons behind this repeatedly-resilient story.
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