Automations

Form submissions → spreadsheet rows. CRM updates from email. Invoice data extraction. CSV imports/exports between systems.

Slack/email alerts when a deploy finishes. Daily digest of key metrics. Threshold alerts (sales drop, error spike, inventory low).

Blog post → social media cross-posting. YouTube upload → tweet + LinkedIn post. RSS feed → email newsletter.

Weekly analytics summaries. Monthly revenue reports. Sprint velocity dashboards. Client status updates.

New signup → welcome email sequence. Form submission → CRM entry + Slack notification + calendar invite. Abandoned cart → follow-up email.

PR merged → deploy to staging. Daily database backup. Dependency update checks. Lighthouse score monitoring.

Customer support triage (classify, route, draft response). Content generation with review gates. Document summarization. Code review assistance.

Order placed → payment verified → inventory updated → shipping label generated → tracking email sent → analytics logged. Each step is simple. The chain is the automation.

The most powerful open-source workflow automation tool. Self-hostable, visual editor, 400+ integrations. Connect anything to anything without writing code.

Anthropic's CLI for AI-assisted development. Reads your codebase, writes code, runs commands, and handles multi-step tasks autonomously. The tool being used to build this website right now.

Visual automation platform with a generous free tier (1,000 operations/month). Great for non-developers who want to automate without code.

The most popular no-code automation tool. 7,000+ app integrations. Free tier includes 100 tasks/month. The easiest on-ramp if you have never automated anything.

Tutorials, workflow demos, and community showcases from the n8n team. The best starting point for visual automation.

Deep dives into AI agents, automation workflows, and practical AI integration. Covers Claude, GPT, and open-source models.

Weekly AI news roundups and tool reviews. Covers new automation tools as they launch. Good for staying current without drowning in noise.

Makes DevOps, networking, and automation accessible. Great for understanding the infrastructure layer that automations run on.

Rapid-fire tech explainers. Covers new tools, frameworks, and automation patterns in 100-second videos. High signal, low noise.

Community-driven workflow sharing, troubleshooting, and inspiration. Real users solving real problems.

Primary source for Claude Code updates, capabilities, and best practices. Essential reading if you are using AI for automation.

Claude Code for Multi-File Operations

SEO sweeps across multiple pages, bulk data entry into structured files, generating project scaffolding, and composing entire features from a conversation. This project blog was built in a single session.

n8n for Event-Driven Pipelines

Form submission → Google Sheets → Slack notification. New Git push → deploy preview → notify team. Scheduled daily backup → Drive sync. Each pipeline is a visual flow that runs unattended.

Formspree + Webhooks

Zero-backend form handling. Submissions go to Formspree, trigger webhooks to n8n, which routes data to wherever it needs to go. No server to maintain.

Shell Scripts for Developer Workflow

Port cleanup, project scaffolding (Bereshit), git hooks for pre-commit checks, and environment setup scripts. The glue between tools.

Cron + Claude for Content Pipelines

Scheduled content generation (daily haikus for Potato Literature), validation (haiku detector for syllable checking), and publication. AI generates, tooling validates, cron schedules.