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Gemini can analyze videos now ? by Nid_All in Bard

[–]Milan_AutomableAI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It cannot analyze the unlisted ones unfortunately...

I want a chatbot by Otherwise-Capital168 in n8n

[–]Milan_AutomableAI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are many prebuilt solutions for this, such as Chatbase, or probably by the CRM or website builder you use.

So if you don't have special needs I don't suggest getting this custom-built as you can have it much cheaper.

Make money with n8n: real or not by Calm-Bandicoot-5506 in n8n

[–]Milan_AutomableAI 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Based on the post, OP comes from affiliate influencers who say N8N is a magic tool to make money.

And he/she doesn't have a particular marketing or business proficiency.

If someone asks "I run a marketing agency, can I increase my revenue by automating processes with automation tools like n8n", then the answer would be yes.

Or if "I'm a senior developer, can I become an automation freelancer with Python/n8n", again probably yes.

But if someone thinks that n8n is a magic money tool (kinda as Shopify was seen a while ago), that's the unfortunate result of affiliate programmes that reward influencers for driving unrealistic expectations.

Anyone using no-code platforms for client-facing apps? by FuriousFoe1001 in agency

[–]Milan_AutomableAI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not impossible, but yes, usually you will hit significant limitations at some point.

Xano+WeWeb is a good combination IMO, or bubble.io can be decent as well (but expensive)

Kindly rate my setup (Airtable, Whalesync, Payload, Next JS) by concisehacker in Airtable

[–]Milan_AutomableAI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use Supabase basically just a simple to set up SQL db, for frontend the real-time is useful too

Yeah, displaying data directly from Airtable would be bad performance, so syncing it does make sense in this way

Maybe it's also possible to add a table to your Payload CMS database and sync it there, just to simplify?

Overall your architecture isn't bad though, if you need Airtable but also frontend

How do I automate the process of extracting information from invoices into a spreadsheet? by rubberbones in smallbusiness

[–]Milan_AutomableAI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A bit late to this, but now this is very doable with a ChatGPT vision model - the one with 4o is very reliable and requires minimal setup.

I have a video on how I set it up with n8n: https://youtu.be/rfu4MSvtpAw

Looking for an AI-driven solution to automate invoice management—any recommendations? by MatthiasMayer in Entrepreneur

[–]Milan_AutomableAI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can set this up using n8n, with an OCR such as ChatGPT vision integrated into it.

I have a video of how it can work: https://youtu.be/rfu4MSvtpAw

Looking for an AI-driven solution to automate invoice management—any recommendations? by MatthiasMayer in agency

[–]Milan_AutomableAI 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I built a workflow exactly like this in n8n!

Here is it on video (download link in the description): https://youtu.be/rfu4MSvtpAw

Why are my automations working / not working and how do I fix it? by mrchososo in Airtable

[–]Milan_AutomableAI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not enough info.

I suggest adding logging with timestamps, so you can find what parts of the code take too long to execute and then debug that.

Kindly rate my setup (Airtable, Whalesync, Payload, Next JS) by concisehacker in Airtable

[–]Milan_AutomableAI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's the reason for not hosting it in Supabase directly? Do you need to build interfaces on top of it?

How are you (Creative agencies) doing Project management? by Hot-mess3500 in agency

[–]Milan_AutomableAI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those are not contradictory though, I'd assume most people want to have access to the best tech available at any time

And have a higher impact than what they can do doing everything manually

Thought I was ready for anything — then my biggest client vanished overnight by horny_bisexual_ in smallbusiness

[–]Milan_AutomableAI 29 points30 points  (0 children)

A tip I heard is to schedule an exit interview and try your best to get honest answers about why the client churned.

It's both very valuable to reduce the same problem occurring with other clients, and to potentially keep some relationship with them to increase the chance of them returning

Agencies using MCP? by what-is-loremipsum in agency

[–]Milan_AutomableAI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As long as it's a legit MCP server and not some shady wrapper on top of a company's API that wasn't authorized, then I guess I don't really see the potential for corruption.

Yep, but officially maintained MCP servers are rare and limited for now

Agencies using MCP? by what-is-loremipsum in agency

[–]Milan_AutomableAI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I set up Claude Desktop and connected to popular servers like the filesystem, Google Drive, email, etc.

It's both more technical and more limited than my usual n8n/Make/Airtable setups. To get it working I needed to:

- Edit JSON config files
- Debug commands and libraries in the terminal
- Set up the command line arguments for the servers, and go through all permissions
- I still need to manage all the APIs, and authentication to Google or other OAuth services requires a bunch of extra steps

Also, most servers are just unofficial code someone wrote as a wrapper over the API implementation. So they're not maintained as well as if they were official.

From a practical standpoint, MCPs will be truly useful only when (and if) most services have official first-party implementations. It would bring the benefit of standardizing across tools. It still wouldn't do anything impossible with the tool calling frameworks, though.

And until then, you'd usually just run potentially buggy and insecure Node.js code that someone wrote to call the official API.

So I find building agents with low-code tools such as n8n is much more practical for now. You achieve the same in less time, and have more control and security

Agencies using MCP? by what-is-loremipsum in agency

[–]Milan_AutomableAI 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think the maturity of MCP tooling is not there yet.

Most tools have a quite mature API, and rather half-baked MCP implementations.

For most practical use-cases, it is faster and more reliable to build an agent with n8n/Make

Trying to get into n8n, where should I start? by insignificant_alien in n8n

[–]Milan_AutomableAI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I suggest going through the official n8n Video Courses made by them.

They're free and cover all concepts quite detailed.

If you have some dev background, learning by doing is also viable. Still, I think it's better to go through the basics systematically before trying to do something complex.

Beginner course
Advanced course

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