18 y/o builder documenting how to make real money with no-code automation. Templates, teardowns, and the stuff nobody else shows you.
158 sites taught me that the real money is selling the idea of automation. Not the code.
Scraped leads, generated demo sites with LLMs, batch deployed, sent 124 pitches. The system worked perfectly. The conversions didn't.
Visual workflows. Drag-and-drop automation. Agencies pay thousands for what takes 23 minutes to build. That's the gap.
Free templates, teardowns, and weekly notes on how to build and sell no-code automations. All documented in public.
Systems, experiments, and the code behind them.
Free workflow kits for builders. One email unlocks every kit. Current and future. No upsell, no funnels.
The full autopsy of my failed lead-gen pipeline. Every workflow, prompt, and pitch, plus a written post-mortem of why it broke at conversion, not code. The failure is the moat: you can't drag-and-drop scar tissue.
Firecrawl → Gemini → batch deploy. The exact node graph and the glue code that templates leave out: rate-limit handling, retry logic, dedupe, the JSON schema I landed on after site #40.
Industry-classifier prompts, copy-generation prompts, the one that hallucinated phone numbers, the one that finally stopped. With diffs so you can see how I got from v1 to v9.
The cold emails, the DMs, the follow-ups. Subject lines, open rates where I have them, replies (rare), and the one near-close that taught me distribution beats automation.
The technical pipeline worked. The business pipeline didn't. This is the section that nobody on n8n.io can write because they didn't ship the failure first. Bottlenecks, false signals, the tells I missed.
The smaller, slower, distribution-first version. What I'd cut, what I'd keep, where I'd put the human in the loop, and the one metric I'd watch instead of "sites deployed."
A private Claude Code skill that one-shots glass + neuo landing pages with a hard anti-AI-tell filter. Pick a niche, run it, ship a site that actually looks shipped. Built to turn taste into cash, fast.
A cron that emails you a curated AI digest every morning. $0/month, deploys in five minutes, runs on Vercel's free tier. No n8n, no Zapier, no paid scrapers — just one Next.js file and a deploy button.
A Monday cron that reads your notes from the past week and emails you a newsletter draft. It doesn't write FOR you — it assembles what you already wrote, quoting your actual sentences. Edit, don't blank-page.
The library grows from real builder problems. Reply on X with the workflow you wish existed. Most-requested becomes the next kit.
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