Author: Olaitan Oladipo
Olaitan Oladipo
Olaitan Oladipo holds a BSc in Sociology from Olabisi Onabanjo University. He is a self-taught automation builder who has spent years inside n8n doing the work that most tutorials skip: debugging OAuth errors at 2am, migrating client automations from Make.com mid-project, fighting reverse proxy misconfigurations on AWS EC2, and figuring out through trial and error what actually holds up in production versus what only looks clean in a demo. He is not a developer by training and not a SaaS founder. He is the person in the Discord server who actually answers the question instead of linking to the docs. His writing on n8n Automation Tutorial covers self-hosting, AI agent workflows, tool comparisons, and the security vulnerabilities the automation industry would rather not discuss. He has built AI-assisted invoice approval flows using OpenAI function calling, connected Claude via HTTP Request nodes, and holds considered opinions about Zapier, Make.com, LangChain, and CrewAI that their marketing teams would not appreciate. He writes for people who are technical enough to follow a tutorial but experienced enough to want the honest version.
The Series B announcement landed in my feed between a cold outreach LinkedIn message and a GitHub notification about a dependency I had been meaning to upd
I was scrolling through the n8n community forum at an hour that I cannot justify professionally when I saw the Mercedes-Benz slide. Someone had posted a sc
The GitHub notification came in at 6:47am on a Tuesday and I almost dismissed it the way I dismiss most dependency update alerts, which is to say immediate
My friend Tobi texted me on a Thursday evening while I was staring at a Code node that was refusing to parse a webhook payload correctly, and his message s
The Number That Matters Is Not 5.2 Billion I was migrating a client off Zapier when the valuation news came through. Not the most dramatic timing, but appr
I Followed That Tutorial Exactly. Here Is What Happened Next. The Docker container came up clean. I know because I watched the logs scroll past in the term
The Invoice Came In at 11pm. The Workflow Classified It, Flagged It, and Drafted the Rejection by 11:01. The first time the AI invoice approval flow actual
The Workflow Was Running Fine. That Was the Problem. The first sign was a webhook execution I did not recognise in the logs. Not an error. A successful exe
What the SAP Money Means If You’re Running n8n on a Five-Dollar Droplet I found out about the SAP investment the same way I find out about most things in t
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