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AI Automation· 2024· Designer & Builder
Self-hosted n8n AI automation platform
Designed and built a self-hosted workflow-automation system — content pipelines, a visual-content factory, and lead-generation flows — built to be auditable, not black-box.
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Overview
A self-hosted automation platform built on n8n, running content pipelines, a visual-content factory, and lead-generation workflows. Self-hosting was a deliberate choice: every step is inspectable and every credential stays under my control, rather than trusting a black-box SaaS with the whole pipeline.
Why self-hosted
Automation that runs unattended should be inspectable. Hosting n8n myself meant I could see and control every step, keep API credentials off third-party servers, and change behaviour without waiting on a vendor.
What it runs
The platform drives several pipelines: a motivational-content pipeline, a Facebook visual-content factory that assembles branded assets, and lead-generation workflows that collect and qualify inbound interest.
Each pipeline is a composable workflow — nodes for fetching, transforming, generating, and publishing — with error handling and logging so failures surface instead of silently dropping work.
Engineering depth
Debugging real automation is where the substance is: rate limits, flaky upstream APIs, and data that doesn't match its schema. Building this taught me to design for the failure cases first, and to treat every external call as something that will eventually break.
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