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n8n automations you can actually ship

Teardowns, build notes, and ready-to-steal workflow ideas for solopreneurs and small teams. Every post links to a template you can import and run the same day.

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Solopreneur ops

5 n8n Automations Every Solopreneur Should Steal in 2026

The five workflows that quietly run a one-person business: support triage, invoice chasing, sale alerts, outreach, and lead enrichment — what each does and where to start.

Aug 29, 2026 · 7 min read
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Gumroad sellers

Never Miss a Gumroad Sale: Build a Telegram Alert in 5 Minutes

A step-by-step build of a Gumroad webhook → Telegram sale alert, plus the auto-welcome email and review follow-up that turn one-time buyers into repeat ones.

Aug 29, 2026 · 6 min read
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Outreach

Cold Outreach That Doesn't Sound Like a Robot (n8n Edition)

How to turn a flat lead sheet into personalized, throttled emails that protect your domain — rule-based (zero API cost) with an LLM swap-in when you want it.

Aug 29, 2026 · 8 min read
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Workflow teardown

How We Built a Real Estate Lead Scraper & AI Scorer in n8n

The flagship workflow, torn down node by node: scrape, AI-score, dedupe, and route hot leads to Telegram — with a test mode that runs on dummy data first.

Aug 29, 2026 · 10 min read
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Get paid

How to Auto-Chase Overdue Invoices with n8n (Without Losing Clients)

A polite, staged dunning sequence — gentle at day 1, firm at day 7, final at day 14 — with dry-run mode so your first pass sends zero real emails.

Aug 29, 2026 · 7 min read
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Tooling

n8n vs Zapier for Solopreneurs: The Real Pricing & Control Trade-off

Where Zapier's per-task pricing quietly breaks a solopreneur budget, and why self-hosting n8n changes the math — without the hype.

Aug 29, 2026 · 9 min read
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