Yeah, I haven't built any major workflow yet, but this is much much of a win to me as I begin this journey. I first signed up for the 14 day trial and it was okay, then i realized if the trial expires, i can't automate at all, which sucks. And I don't have the finances to keep up paying monthly, since I plan to take this seriously up to 5 months plus. Then i heard of Self Hosting in the Classroom Section of this community, and i heard it is literally free, unlimited executions; but it's very technical to set up and encounter webhooks not working. So I sucked it up; I must learn! I began the quest to have it work. I searched numerous Youtube's, Perpelexity. Then i found out about using Cloudflare Zero Trust for tunneling so that n8n can connect to the public network. All i needed was a domain(You can buy .online, .xyz, .store etc from Namecheap for less than $2/yr; it works so far you not using it for production and just for learning like me), Cloudflare Zero Trust plan(Free plan) and that's all. I can't lie, It was really technical setting up the docker and the routing. Hours of troubleshooting, long Perplexity threads to the point it told me to suck it up and use the n8n local host(http://localhost:5678/) 😂. I didn't give up!! Finally routed it, but I encountered an error where I couldn't even have access to the domain i routed the Cloudflare tunnel to. My guts just told me to use Firefox and voila!!, It works!!! (A win for Firefox i guess..lol) Now I can finally dive deeper and comfortably in learning AI Automation!! I'd appreciate any more tips or advice moving forward using this approach as this is my first time. Thanks!

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Built an automated lead qualification system that analyzes leads, scores them, routes to sales teams, syncs with HubSpot, and sends alerts on Slack. Made sure to add decision logging so we can see WHY each lead got scored the way it did, plus error logging to catch issues before they become problems. Pretty proud that I got it working, but this is my first time building something this size. What would you improve? What am I not thinking about?

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Took me about two weeks to get through it, but wow, what a resource. If you're new to n8n like I was, this is exactly what you need. It doesn't just teach you the basics, it gives you a complete foundation to keep building on your own. This is genuinely a full course disguised as a "video." The depth and structure are incredible, and Rayan explains things in a way that actually makes sense. One heads up for anyone without a tech background like me: the HTTP requests and webhooks sections might feel a bit challenging at first. Don't skip them though. I used LLM's such ChatGPT and Gemini to break down the concepts I didn't understand, and it helped me grasp things way better. Seriously grateful for this resource, Rayan. You've created something special here. For anyone on the fence about starting it, just go for it. You won't regret the time investment.