Lernreise 5/7: Day 3: Fifty Nodes and a Burning Budget
By day three, the main workflow had fifty-two nodes. I want you to sit with that number for a moment. Fifty-two nodes in n8n. Conditional branches, error handlers, HTTP request nodes, code nodes with JavaScript doing things that code nodes in a visual workflow tool were never meant to do. Sub-expressions referencing field names from nodes seventeen steps back. The canvas was a tangle of lines that looked, from a distance, like someone had dropped a bowl of spaghetti on a circuit board and decided to ship it.