For an internal design firm client of mine, I implemented some Blog Writing automation that uses their Slack for internal knowledge, giving the blog post some uniqueness that just AI won't get you. We're now drafting new blog posts every day, which we will be able to use for SEO and as a source for social media sharing, letting us bring in more viewers and ultimately more clients. Built in Make.com

Built an n8n workflow for video shorts. Takes a prompt, as small as just a couple words, generates a script, images, animates the images (I want to improve this part), generates audio from the script, generates a transcript of that audio, converts that transcript into text for the video and puts it on the video. Going to be able to reuse this for a couple clients and hopefully use it to sell a couple more clients.

I was trying to use the AI in Google Docs to work on some Project Briefs. But, from using AI while coding, I knew I could be more productive if I just modified local markdown files. I can see real diffs. I can make more sweeping changes using opencode or codex or claude code. I can create and use templates, refer to other files easily, even use MCP to tie in other data or actions. But, I need to send people documents, and they kinda expect it to be a Google Doc. So, I keep a couple git repos of markdown files and use AI to modify them, do frequent commits to git and then when I want to publish, I just send the file contents to this n8n webhook and it converts it into a Google Doc. I know that Google Doc has a way to import markdown files, but this lets me do the whole process right from my computer. What should happen after this point? Automatic emailing of the file to the client with some context?

I was spending too much money doing too many things with Zapier, Make.com and n8n. Every thing I run there, it's like I'm being nickle-and-dimed! Even when I want to test something. And when I want to run a bunch of data through, it gets expensive! I was looking for alternatives that I could run myself and learned that n8n has a community edition that I can run locally on my computer or deploy to the cloud. I spent like 15 minutes and got it running on my computer and could finally take a breath of relief! I could run as many workflows as I wanted and not worry about blowing through my quota or needing to buy more. I spent a but more time with it, deployed a couple n8n instances to small cloud servers for some clients who couldn't use a cloud n8n or other cloud automation tools because of data sensitivity, and I can really see this going far. Now, I know that I can just code something up and host it myself, that's probably even easier in some cases, but n8n offers a lot of great features out of the box. Visualization of workflows, a nice drag-and-drop interface that I can hand-off to clients, an API so I can manage and audit workflows easily. I tried a couple other alternatives as well, all self-hosted, and wrote about them here if you're interested: https://heyferrante.com/self-hosted-automation-tools-august-2025

I record a lot of voice notes. I brain-dump while I'm biking, hiking or running and frequently want a way to extract some gold from what I said. Or, I record a meeting, either in-person or online, but I can't stand having another "AI TRANSCRIBER" joining the meeting, so I just record on my phone. But after I record, sometimes these voice notes went forgotten about on my phone. My great ideas and notes dumped from my brain and forgotten about. My meeting just remembered, not systemized. So, I built this n8n workflow that I can use from my phone to transcribe and run through a LLM to pull out information, action-items, ideas, and send all of that to my email with the transcript. This saves me time, helps me be more organized, helps me close more sales and helps me make my clients happier. Thinking of having it pass the action items along to a manager agent to start delegating and executing on them. What do you use?