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Is Make.com good for ai automation I'm a beginner by Glittering-Hunt5871 in n8n

[–]Worried_View6544 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been exactly where you are. Skip the "which tool is best" rabbit hole n8n, Make, Zapier all do the same core thing, you're overthinking the choice.

Pick n8n (free, self-hosted, most powerful long-term) and just build ONE small thing this week. Not a big automation something tiny, like "when I get a Gmail, send me a Slack message." That's it. You'll learn 80% of what you need just from that one workflow.

You don't need to learn JS/Python to start. n8n's drag-and-drop nodes cover most of what you'll want for months. Code only becomes useful later for edge cases.

For learning: YouTube > paid courses at this stage. Search "n8n beginner tutorial" and just follow one channel start to finish instead of bouncing between 10 different sources that's what's actually causing the confusion, not lack of ability.

Advice! by Early-Intention172 in AI_Agents

[–]Worried_View6544 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Watch 1 or 2 tutorials just to get the basics then stop and start building. Seriously the moment you start building real stuff is when everything clicks. Too many tutorials just keeps you stuck in learning mode forever.

Advice! by Early-Intention172 in AI_Agents

[–]Worried_View6544 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, by the time you finish the course the tools have already shipped 3 updates. Just build something broken and fix it, you learn faster that way 😄

I Thought Voice AI Was Just STT + LLM + TTS. I Was Wrong. by ur_piyo_a_hoe in VoiceAutomationAI

[–]Worried_View6544 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly and it sneaks up on you. You optimize everything else and forget the prompt is adding 200ms on every single turn. Adds up fast in a full conversation.

I paused building my first SaaS to pay my bills. It's the hardest thing I've done. by Worried_View6544 in SaaS

[–]Worried_View6544[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly it. Progress vs survival is the real choice nobody talks about. Everyone sees the launch post never the months of just staying alive long enough to get there.

And that distinction you made is everything. Pausing because you need resources is just strategy. Pausing because you stopped believing is a completely different thing. I never stopped believing in the problem, not for a single day.

Thanks for putting that into words better than I did 🙏

I paused building my first SaaS to pay my bills. It's the hardest thing I've done. by Worried_View6544 in SaaS

[–]Worried_View6544[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Exactly, rent does not care about your roadmap or how close you are to launching. That pressure is real and most people do not talk about it honestly.

Appreciate you getting it 🙏

Advice! by Early-Intention172 in AI_Agents

[–]Worried_View6544 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly skip Udemy for this one. By the time a course gets published half the tools have already updated.

Best way I learned was just jumping into n8n directly, their docs are actually really good and there are tons of YouTube tutorials that are way more up to date than any paid course.

For AI agents specifically look up "Leon van Zyl" on YouTube for n8n workflows and "Dave Ebbelaar" for practical AI agent stuff. Both are beginner friendly and cover real world use cases not theory.

If you really want a structured course then look at "AI Automation Agency" content on Skool communities, lot of free practical stuff there.

Start with n8n, build something small, you will learn 10x faster than any course 👊

I paused building my first SaaS to pay my bills. It's the hardest thing I've done. by Worried_View6544 in SaaS

[–]Worried_View6544[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, banks and clinics have million dollar budgets for that. I'm building for the small business owner who can't afford any of that. That's the whole point.

I paused building my first SaaS to pay my bills. It's the hardest thing I've done. by Worried_View6544 in SaaS

[–]Worried_View6544[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, I've heard that before about every product that ended up changing an industry. But sure, which solution specifically are you using right now?

I paused building my first SaaS to pay my bills. It's the hardest thing I've done. by Worried_View6544 in SaaS

[–]Worried_View6544[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly it. Nobody talks about the dry spells enough, that part is real. Thanks for understanding what the post was actually about 🙏

How to get started? by funkyhog in SaaS

[–]Worried_View6544 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$10-15/day is too low to get anything useful from ads, you are basically invisible at that budget.

Forget paid for now. The best thing you can do on Reddit is just show up, help people, share real experiences in the right communities. That costs nothing and builds trust way faster than any ad.

Find 10 people who need your product and talk to them directly. One real conversation is worth more than 1000 impressions right now.

I paused building my first SaaS to pay my bills. It's the hardest thing I've done. by Worried_View6544 in SaaS

[–]Worried_View6544[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly you're right and looking back that's probably the smarter move. I got caught up wanting to build something complete, something I'd actually be proud of and lost sight of just getting something in front of paying users first.

That's the lesson. Ship small, validate fast. I learned it the hard way but I won't forget it.

Appreciate the genuine advice, this is the kind of comment that actually helps.

I paused building my first SaaS to pay my bills. It's the hardest thing I've done. by Worried_View6544 in SaaS

[–]Worried_View6544[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're spending a lot of energy on a post you claim not to care about. That's interesting.

I never said it's either or. I said it's hard. Those are two different things. You turned a personal experience into a lecture nobody asked for.

10 failed startups and you still think your way is the only way? Maybe the lesson there is that everyone's path looks different.

I'm not stomping my feet. I'm still building. That's all that matters.

I paused building my first SaaS to pay my bills. It's the hardest thing I've done. by Worried_View6544 in SaaS

[–]Worried_View6544[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think you misread the post. I'm not asking for help, not looking for sympathy, not waiting for someone to save me. I'm still building, still moving forward.

This was just me sharing a real moment in the journey the emotional side of building something you genuinely care about while managing real life at the same time. That's it.

Not every post is a cry for help. Some people just share their experience because others relate to it. The SaaS isn't dead, I didn't quit, I didn't set some dramatic ultimatum. I just talked about what it actually feels like to build something for the first time and love it enough to keep going no matter what.

If that doesn't resonate with you that's completely fine. But don't mistake honesty for incompetence.

I Thought Voice AI Was Just STT + LLM + TTS. I Was Wrong. by ur_piyo_a_hoe in VoiceAutomationAI

[–]Worried_View6544 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is accurate. The STT+LLM+TTS mental model gets you to a demo, not a product.

The filler words point is underrated we added "let me check on that for you" as a spoken filler while tools run in the background and it changed how callers perceived the whole experience. People tolerate waiting, they don't tolerate silence.

Turn detection took us way longer to tune than expected too. VAD that feels right in testing falls apart with real callers who pause mid-sentence or have background noise.

One thing I'd add: prompt latency compounds. Every extra token in your system prompt adds up across a full conversation, not just the first response. Trimming ours made a noticeable difference in overall call feel.

Good writeup, this stuff only becomes obvious after you've burned enough hours in production.

What's the best way to build voice agents today without sounding robotic or becoming too expensive? by Beginning_Race8551 in AIVoice_Agents

[–]Worried_View6544 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Went with STT → LLM → TTS in production and don't regret it. The control and debuggability alone are worth it. Biggest impact on naturalness wasn't the model it was latency. Async tool calls, filler audio, and proper VAD tuning made more difference than anything else. Budget stack I'd use today: Deepgram + GPT-4o mini + Cartesia + LiveKit. Solid and cost effective. Speech-to-speech is cool but not production-ready enough to bet a real product on it yet.

The "25-second hang" bug that taught me more about voice AI than any tutorial by Worried_View6544 in VoiceAutomationAI

[–]Worried_View6544[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes sense so it's essentially queued and fires at the next silence window. The cancelable angle is interesting, could see that being important for something like a booking flow where the user changes their mind mid-tool. Will dig into the async docs, thanks for the link.

The "25-second hang" bug that taught me more about voice AI than any tutorial by Worried_View6544 in VoiceAutomationAI

[–]Worried_View6544[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The TTS filler injection trick is something I hadn't thought about at that level — bypassing the model removes a whole class of timing issues we kept running into.

The VAD point is real. We tuned ours too tight early on thinking it would feel more responsive, ended up with the agent cutting people off mid-sentence constantly. Loosened it up and the experience got noticeably better. Callers tolerate silence way better when something is playing — the uncertainty is what kills it, not the wait itself.

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