Where things stand, and what is coming. The Roadmap link in the sidebar opens the full version on the site; this post is the same picture in the feed, so you can ask about any of it in the comments. I keep it current instead of promising dates I cannot keep. WHAT IS LIVE NOW: 33 free courses, in six tracks. n8n (4): self-hosting from a laptop container to a production server running queue mode, workflow foundations, AI agents, plus Activepieces and Windmill compared honestly against it. AI and Claude Code (4): Claude Code with MCP servers and subagents, local models with Ollama, Open WebUI and LiteLLM, vector search with Qdrant and Weaviate. Data (6): Postgres, Supabase and NocoDB, Notion, Airtable and Google Workspace, Directus and Baserow, Metabase, MinIO, PocketBase and Appwrite. Infrastructure (7): Docker and self-hosting, Cloudflare, Portainer and Dockge, Grafana with Prometheus and Loki, Authentik and Keycloak, Vaultwarden and Nextcloud, Plausible and Umami. Code and shipping (4): Python and Go for the parts that need real code. Git and GitHub Actions, Gitea and Woodpecker for the parts that need shipping. Apps and business (8): Retool, ToolJet, Bubble and Glide, Stripe, email and newsletters, Listmonk, Strapi, Typebot and Chatwoot, Cal.com and Documenso, and a course on choosing what to build on. Every lesson names the exact versions it was tested on, ships the compose file and the workflow export that actually ran, and has a Common problems section for the things that genuinely go wrong. All of it was built and run before it was written. RECENTLY SHIPPED A free n8n template library. Twelve workflows you can import and run, with the real exports, at https://www.houseofloops.com/templates A full syllabus for all 33 courses, so you can see every lesson before you start one: https://www.houseofloops.com/course Two new guides: seven n8n alternatives compared honestly, and a straight answer on what n8n actually costs. Both at https://www.houseofloops.com/blog

If you build automations and you would rather own your stack than rent it, you are in the right place. House of Loops is free. There is no paid tier holding the good parts. The Classroom has 33 courses covering n8n from your laptop to a production server, Claude Code, AI agents, local models with Ollama, Docker, Postgres, Cloudflare, and around sixteen open-source tools you can self-host next to n8n. Everything in there was built and run before it was written. The compose files, the workflow exports and the version numbers are the ones that actually worked. THREE THINGS TO DO NOW First — open Start Here in the Classroom. It takes about five minutes and includes the self-hosting guide as a PDF and EPUB. Second — reply below and introduce yourself. Copy this and fill it in: Where you are: What you run (tool and version): What you are building right now: What is currently broken: That last line is the useful one. "n8n 2.38 in Docker on a Hetzner box, queue mode will not start" tells us far more than "hi, I'm into automation" — and it usually gets you an answer in the same thread. Third — pick one course and post your first result, working or broken. WHEN SOMETHING BREAKS Post it in Help with your compose file (secrets removed), the exact command you ran, and the output. You get a real answer from me, not a bot. That is the whole deal.

The old roadmap promised phases with month-by-month durations. Those dates have passed and the direction changed, so here is where things actually stand. WHAT IS IN THE CLASSROOM NOW — 33 courses n8n — self-hosting from your laptop to a production server, workflow foundations, AI agents, plus Activepieces and Windmill compared honestly against it. AI and Claude Code — installing and using Claude Code, MCP servers and subagents, local models with Ollama, Open WebUI and LiteLLM, vector search with Qdrant and Weaviate. Data — Postgres, Supabase and NocoDB, Notion, Airtable and Google Workspace, Directus, Baserow, Metabase, MinIO. Infrastructure — Docker and self-hosting, Cloudflare, Portainer, Grafana with Prometheus and Loki, Authentik and Keycloak, Vaultwarden and Nextcloud. Code — Python, Go, Git and GitHub Actions, Gitea and Woodpecker. Apps and business — Retool, ToolJet, Bubble and Glide, Stripe, email and newsletters, Strapi, Typebot and Chatwoot, Cal.com and Documenso. Every lesson names the exact versions it was tested on, ships the compose file and the workflow export, and has a Common problems section for the things that actually go wrong. WHAT IS COMING Course updates as tools ship breaking changes. n8n and Claude Code both move fast, and a lesson that was right in September is not automatically right in December. More screenshots and worked examples in the courses that still need them. WHAT I AM NOT GOING TO DO is promise dates I cannot keep. The last roadmap did exactly that and it aged badly. If you want something covered, say so below and I will tell you honestly whether it is on the list.

Do you have a hard time finding content for your automation pipeline? Social Flood can help. The idea behind Social Flood is to automate and script the process of sourcing content in your niche. From Google News, Google Trends, Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, etc. Social Flood will expand to include almost every area of the internet to help you with sourcing for your UGC. https://hub.docker.com/r/rainmanjam/social-flood https://github.com/rainmanjam/social-flood Let me know what you think, and I look forward to your feedback and advice.