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[Comment Spotlight Top Stories I Built a Personal AI Assistant That Runs My Life Through WhatsApp, Powered by n8n and a Self-Hosted LLM A user shares a comprehensive AI assistant built with n8n that manages daily tasks via WhatsApp, from bill payments and scheduling to summarizing emails and acting as a music DJ. The system uses a central AI brain to delegate tasks to specialized sub-workflows, integrating with various APIs for a seamless conversational interface.
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Demonstrates n8n’s power for highly personalized, complex automations. Showcases practical applications of self-hosted LLMs and AI agents for personal productivity. Offers a blueprint for integrating diverse services into a unified control system.
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[I Built an AI Agent Army in n8n That Completely Replaced My Personal Assistant This project details a multi-agent AI system built in n8n that functions as a 24/7 personal assistant via Telegram, managing emails, scheduling, finances, travel, news, research, content creation, and social media. It features an orchestrator agent that routes complex requests to eight specialized agents.
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Illustrates advanced multi-agent AI architectures within n8n. Highlights significant time savings (20+ hours/week) for routine tasks. Presents a powerful alternative to human assistants for a fraction of the cost.
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[Built myself an automation that tracks calories from food images. An n8n user created a free, self-hosted automation that calculates calories from food images using a Google API. This innovative workflow showcases how n8n can be leveraged for personal health and tracking, operating at no ongoing cost.
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Provides a practical, zero-cost solution for calorie tracking using visual AI. Highlights the flexibility of n8n for niche, personal automation projects. Demonstrates self-hosting benefits for advanced features without recurring fees.
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Upvotes: 155 • Comments: 52 Discuss on r/n8n → Quick Hits Tired of job applications? This user built an n8n workflow, triggered by a Chrome extension, to automate extracting job details, generating custom cover letters, and logging everything into Google Sheets and Docs in seconds. link Learn how to automate long-form video creation for free with this n8n workflow, which customizes voice, artistic style, overlays, and sound effects. link A new n8n template automatically adds descriptive sticky notes to your workflows using GPT-4o-mini, making documentation readable and shareable without manual effort. link Automate your email follow-ups with this n8n workflow that catches incoming emails, sends initial replies, and dispatches follow-ups if no response, effectively creating a mini CRM. link Discover a smart n8n workflow that uses Google’s Gemini AI to monitor subreddits, identify potential business leads, and organize them into Google Sheets for automation specialists. link A new n8n user shares their initial workflow for pulling European football league stats into Google Sheets, updating league tables, and generating weekly match predictions emailed as Looker reports. link Check out the latest weekly self-promotion thread where n8n users showcase their innovative workflows, offer consulting services, and share GitHub repos for advanced use cases. link Community Q&A “How do you ensure your n8n AI agents, especially those interacting with Google services, remain reliable and don’t forget tasks or suffer from expired connections?” A user running a legal firm’s AI agent for customer interactions and meeting bookings faces issues with Google connection expiry and task oversight when the agent is idle. Join the thread → “Does the latest n8n version, with its unlimited workflow capacity announcement, affect execution limits for self-hosted instances, especially with high weekly execution volumes?” A user managing around 200k weekly executions on a self-hosted n8n instance seeks clarification on potential limitations introduced by recent updates. Join the thread → “Will Google reject my API access request for n8n integration due to a domain conflict, and how can Open AI be used to optimize campaigns once approved?” A user encountered an issue with Google Ads OAuth ID and Developer Token generation, receiving a domain conflict email and is looking for advice on integration approval and AI optimization strategies. Join the thread → Comment Spotlight “Ya it is quite easy to achieve, if you want one build just DM, if you want to build yourself just search how to create RAG chatbots in n8n in YouTube there are loads of tutorials.” From Feedback – thinking on using n8n for clients requests “Just make a scheduled connection keep alive request. Simply put a dummy conversation in the Google sheet etc. and delete it.” From How do you make your n8n AI agents more reliable? “How is having the flow waiting for days to get a response better than running a separate workflow daily that checks for needed follow-up? You already have the mails store in a sheet. How is this workflow resilient to disconnections of some sort during the waiting?” From Email follow ups “These things that tell you the calories from a pic are criminaly wrong. What if the cook added 3 spons of oil to that sandwich inside? (+100kcal) or used light mayonese? (-200kcal compare to regular). Now compound that error over a month, and you’ll be off by several thousands of kcal. I don’t understand the purpose of collecting the wrong information. These apps are a great programming exercise, but that’s it.” From Built myself an automation that tracks calories from food images. “Really cool idea! I’ve been trying to use n8n for some of my office workflows, and documentation is always the part I put off. Auto-sticky notes would save a ton of time, especially for sharing with teammates.” From I hate to document my workflows so I automated it You’re receiving this because you subscribed to daily r/n8n highlights. Content summarized from public Reddit posts. Links go to Reddit. •
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Angel Menendez