Jun 11 (edited) • 📝 Admin's Blog
⚠️ I'm closing free community
Hi everyone,
I’m reaching out to let you know that I’m going to close this community.
When I started this group, I was intoxicated by the success of other creators. I wanted to make a lot of money like my competitors and switch from working to teaching because I love it. I thought my huge experience would help me with that—but that was a mistake.
During this six-month chase, I realized a lot—mainly that I was focused on the wrong things and had the wrong goals.
All these overcrowded communities focus on producing content and getting more members, instead of sharing REAL knowledge. Of course, they share some tips that might seem very good for any non-tech newbie, but professionals in this niche clearly see how far the solutions shared in these communities are from what they actually do daily.
Nobody cares about researching technologies and building something reliable and scalable, because it’s very hard and complex work. I’ve been in the no-code niche for five years and know that most no-code agencies focus on MVPs, because 95% of them die after launching. It’s easy money: you build something for a few months, get $15k, and then it dies—nobody will find your bugs, the client will never know that this solution can’t scale beyond 30 users, and you never need to maintain that mess.
At the same time, there’s a parallel market for real solutions—usually businesses smart enough to avoid scammy agencies. They collaborate with proven professionals and work with them for years. In this situation, you barely need to make content or share cases, which is why it’s so hard to find such professionals and real information online—they’re busy working. Only a few of them have time to share deep insights.
I’m working too—I can’t afford to stop working and just teach because technologies move very fast, and to answer questions, you need to keep gaining new experience, researching new approaches, etc. Otherwise, your knowledge is outdated in just a few months. So I found it very hard to combine content generation and actual work, as both take huge resources to produce high-quality results.
I tried to make content, and I want to switch to a more creative niche in the future, but right now, I can’t compete with content creators. I do real projects and don’t like to lie—so for me, producing even one good video takes a lot of time to prepare and make sure that my workflows will actually work without any problems.
Harari said in his last interview that lies are cheaper to produce—that’s why you see people posting 30+ node workflows every day, pretending they built them. No, WE built them—the people in the n8n community who really work and share their results. Creators, meanwhile, just steal and lie. I can’t force myself to produce fluffy content with low value just to chase views—I want to actually teach people who want to learn how to BUILD something, not just SELL fluffy solutions. But only a few people are willing to work hard and invest enough time to become pros.
I’ve helped friends jump into this niche, and it changed their lives forever—but it didn’t happen overnight. We spent years working for free or with crazy clients, investing time to research different things without any immediate return. Only this way can you gain real knowledge that makes you money months later, when a client comes with a task you’ve already researched and you’re ready to help, because you have confidence and experience.
But now, with all the hype, people look at this niche as just another “get easy money on the internet” method.
I’m frustrated that I didn’t spend enough time on the paid community. It was very difficult to create content for YouTube, free Skool, paid Skool, and other sources simultaneously—that was my mistake. Now, I want to focus on one thing, and that will be the paid community. I want to make it a small and warm place for people who are really on the path of AI/no-code development and share more insights with them. I have a huge knowledge base in my head that I want to share there—even if nobody sees it. If it changes even one life, that’s already a win for me.
Also, I don’t see questions from members in this community like I do in others—but maybe that’s a good sign. I see many people without any technical experience copy and set up my scenarios without bugs or problems, while in other communities, most comments are about bugs and problems. I’m always happy to help, but nobody asks for help, which feels strange to me.
So, I’ll continue teaching in the paid community and growing the knowledge base there—but now, without worrying and chasing other creators, sticking to my relaxed rhythm. I’ve already built a Lovable course that can help anyone start building applications, and now I’m preparing the most detailed course on N8N to share my business automation experience from the past five years. I plan to focus on AI agents and content generation, as those are the most interesting and promising directions for AI automation.
I want to build my own space where I know every person, where I help people change their lives and improve the world. I want to make it as easy as possible, because I think I totally forgot the main idea behind the community name—5 Min AI.
I’ll be glad to see you there, but the story for this community is ending—it will be closed in 1 week. So feel free to check the guides one more time or save any workflows you need.
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⚠️ I'm closing free community
