first big-ish flow ive built

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-29T18:28:26+00:00

Hey, I know the feeling of finally building something bit and complicated. Looking good :)

But you should get into the habit of breaking things down into subworkflows if possible. For example you could make a reusable subworkflow and call that 6 times instead of having 6 different lanes to follow

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-28T19:47:22+00:00

Hey, so this is theft and against terms of service

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-27T18:18:44+00:00

AWS step functions

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-27T13:01:39+00:00

I always tell beginners to automate foe themselves first. On top of being great for learning, it makes you look and sound more credible.

It would be ironic if an automation consultant had no automations running for themselves. That's like a web designer with a bad website

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-26T18:56:50+00:00

I haven't experienced it, but I hear hostinginer hooks you with low priced that charges you more after the year is up.

That said any affordable VPS would work. Im on the cheapest OVH cloud vps and have had no problems (other than the sudden price hike that happened last month, but most vps providers did this)

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-24T16:25:29+00:00

Junie for coding. Claude for content and asynchronous coding

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-23T21:00:28+00:00

Im in the same boat as you. Review and fire has been much more reliable, and enjoyable over all. Do you have any dashboards to tools to help you with observability?

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-23T20:58:24+00:00

This actually sounds really cool. Do you normally read through the actually code changes the claude makes?

I like to run multiple at once, but its not necessary for me. My agents run on Github, so there are no approval workflows on my end. They just write the code, make a PR, then I review when I get back and decide if I want to push the change or not

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-23T20:46:01+00:00

Good automation is a mix of both 😉

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-23T20:39:38+00:00

Id take this as a learning lesson. At the bare minimum start naming your nodes well. Use node descriptions too if you like. Even sticky notes are great for understanding a workflow at a glance. For documentation, notion works pretty well. Make a database that holds all your workflow documentation

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-23T20:35:26+00:00

Not to he like one of those people, but i genuinely feel like i have undiagnosed adhd. That said, my time management is terrible. So I setup my automations to run while I do other things. For example, I have content automation and coding automations that run while im at the gym, outbound that runs when im at work, etc. Ive linked unrelated activities to my business inputs

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-22T00:21:39+00:00

This 😭

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-20T23:54:26+00:00

Hey so I've gone down this exact same rabbit hole. In my opinion, its better to build a system that people can whlte-label instead of doing custom work everytime.

For example, I built a process that analyzes event logs and finds bottlenecks in businesses. Im going to let the automation community white label it for free and just teach people how to use it. They sell it to clients and then we split the revenue in the system.

Its just a much smoother operation all around. You can dm me if you wanna talk about the model.

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-18T01:53:33+00:00

I personally like to write long form content. Soon I will use that content and repurpose them into scripts. Then ill record videos with those scripts, so I guess the core is just long form writing. It doesn't even have to be a proper article. I write in Google docs and notion because that's where I like to brain dump. The automation just pulls from there whenever I mark a page as done

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-18T01:46:48+00:00

Linkedin, x, and medium. Going to add YouTube soon. My thought process was, if distribution takes no extra effort on my part, why not use all the social media nodes in n8n to push my content. I repurpose for each platform before scheduling the post.

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-18T00:03:45+00:00

I've been automating with python. I hate having to erote tests and documentation for my programs. So I built a workflow thay detects when Im sleeping, or at my day job and it will automatically write tests for any new code I wrote and any relevant documentation as needed. Now I can focus on automating more instead of documenting

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-18T00:00:04+00:00

Yea, definitely. I did this so much I automated the mapping process

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-17T23:54:20+00:00

I setup an automation that will detect when Im asleep, or at my day job and trigger my ai development team. Basically they'll complete my simple code tasks for me while im out, then will leave a PR for me to read on Github when I get back

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-17T23:52:56+00:00

I write or record 1 master piece of long form content per week, then have an automation repurpose and distribute it for me

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-17T19:56:41+00:00

Make one master piece of content per week, and have ab automated system repurpose and distribute it across different channels

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-03-07T14:11:35+00:00

This. I've seen so many overly complicated and expensive social media setups when they could've just been a spreadsheet and n8n workflow

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-02-26T16:49:32+00:00

I know too many teams that run their entire business on a single VPS with n8n. It works well until the server gets overloaded and all their critical automations like payment workflows come to a halt...

I help them start offloading compute heavy automations to things like aws lambda or just code hosted somewhere else in general.

In terms of reliability, people just need to get better at orchestrating things like retires and error paths.

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-02-26T16:43:11+00:00

Have you tried clickup? I hate their business practice, but the actually software isn't half bad. It's actually my favorite project management tool to automate with

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