Oct 12 (edited) • 🧪beta testers wanted
Mid-Level Techie Tool: Try Setting up your own N8N
Just a warning: this post is not for the totally tech-averse; this is probably a mid-level techie setup situation.
AN OPTION FOR SETTING UP AUTOMATIONS WITHOUT A SOFTWARE SUBSCRIPTION.
🎖️ If you're tech-averse & you're setting up the automation, you should probably be using the AI that is built in with your software.
🥉If you're adverse-to-middle, you may be using zapier or make.
🥈This info is for the next level up from that - n8n
I'll be adding a segment to the classroom about this (when to choose which option & benefits/drawbacks to n8n specifically), but I wanted to share this tool to get some feedback while I'm working on that.
🧟♀️🧟♂️First, this tool is kind of ugly/Design is not finished. 🧟♂️🧟
You know I'm going to make it more fun, but this is the foundation & I'd like you to try/test/tell me if it works the way you want & if there is any capability I can do to make it easier for you to use.
🪛 Next, the Tool.
🔗The link. It's a Claude artifact. You open it, and it should connect to your Claude when you open it. If you don't connect it to your own Claude, nothing will save.
It is made for browser (not mobile)
➡️Background: I created this after I joined a membership where they were going to charge me $49 for hosting my N8N. I try to reduce recurring subscription expense.
➡️Purpose of the tool:
Walks a non-coder through setting up hosting your own n8n instance (on Railway) from start to finish in about 45 minutes, with no terminal or code
This will cost you about $5-15/month [for unlimited runs], vs
24/month n8n Cloud starter plan (capped at 2,500 runs) vs
whatever someone else charges you (ex: the $49/month I spoke about).
➡️Features:
- Saves you from lost logins, leaked API keys, and surprise usage bills, because every key gets saved the right way as you go (saved somewhere safe, the way you already prefer to save things, instead of in chat, email or a random note).
➡️What I want the user experience to be:
👉 This is where I'm looking for feedback, let me know if any of this is NOT your experience👈
- Starts with you: 1st question is how you already keep secrets (password manager, local folder, or envelope). The guide adapts to that, not the other way around.
- No guessing: every step names the exact button, and every outside step has a link that opens in a new tab. (It's so annoying to not be able to switch back to the Claude interface while doing something it told you to do).
- One-click copying: anything you need to paste has a copy button, so you don't have to highlight and copy and paste.
- Secrets never touch the guide. If you're not using a password program, you get guidance on where to save the things safely including a pre-produced download a fill-in-the-blank secret file w/ instructions on how to add the real key on their own device and exactly where/how to do that.
- Clear checkpoints: each step says how to confirm it worked before moving on.
- Calm, not overwhelming.
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PLEASE, if anything doesn't work, or if something would be easier, please send a screenshot here and or just reply in a comment telling me what you wish was happening for you.
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And, of course, a poll to help me make the classroom section customized for where you're at. Please let me know if you've heard of or familiar with or very comfortable with any of the software that's going to be part of this automation course.
Comfortable = "would feel comfortable explaining to someone what I use it for and why" or more.
NOT comfortable Option 1: Heard of ONLY Zapier (but not Make or n8n)
NOT comfortable Option 2: Heard of ONLY Make (but not Zapier or n8n)
NOT comfortable Option 3: Heard of ONLY n8Nn (but not Make or Zapier)
Heard of 2 or more, but NOT comfortable with any.
Comfortable with 1.
Comfortable with 2 or more.
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