Hello everyone,
I’ve been experimenting with n8n lately and I’m amazed by how versatile it is for building automated workflows. I’m curious about the most creative or useful automation you’ve managed to set up that actually made a difference in your daily routine or work.
I’d also love to hear about any specific features or integrations that really surprised you when you first discovered them. Always looking for new ideas to try out!
My most effective automation tracks competitor pricing across multiple platforms and automatically updates our product prices based on predefined rules. The workflow scrapes data every morning, compares it against our inventory margins, and generates pricing recommendations that get sent to our sales team via Slack. It even flags unusual price drops that might indicate promotions or clearance sales. The surprising aspect was discovering how robust the error handling capabilities are in n8n. Initially, I was worried about web scraping reliability, but the retry logic and fallback mechanisms kept the workflow stable even when external sites had temporary issues. This automation alone has saved us roughly 10 hours per week of manual price monitoring and helped maintain our competitive positioning without constant human oversight.
honestly my best one is probaly a slack bot that monitors our server status and automatically restarts services when they go down. saves me from getting woken up at 3am lol. the http request nodes are way more powerfull than i expected initially
I built a comprehensive customer support ticket routing system that automatically categorizes incoming emails based on keywords and sentiment analysis, then assigns them to the appropriate team members while creating corresponding tasks in our project management tool. The workflow also sends automated acknowledgment emails with estimated response times based on priority levels. What really caught me off guard was how seamlessly n8n handles webhook integrations with third-party services. I initially thought I’d need custom API development for certain connections, but the webhook nodes made it surprisingly straightforward to integrate with services that don’t have dedicated n8n nodes yet. The ability to transform and manipulate data between different services without writing complex code has been a game changer for our operations team.