You asked if I liked these kinds of videos? No I don't like them.... I LOVE them! This is what we as developers need more of. The only problem is you don't post enough!
Thanks my friend. Appreciate you. I will try and post more in 2025, its tough with how much work i do but i enjoy it and viewers seem to enjoy and get real value.
Great video Brendan, I don’t have any knowledge on automations. would you create videos series for automations fundamentals and how to get started with n8n?
its in the pipeline. I am finding it very useful and think others will too. There are also loads of existing youtube tutorials on using n8n so you can also start there (theyre probably gonna be better than mine!). let me know what sort of stuff you're looking to automate and well see if we can get some real life usecases from viewers!
Thanks Tav! Will be looking at this in the start of 2025 more and hoping to release some. Anything youre looking to automate in particular? let me know what sort of stuff you're looking to automate and well see if we can get some real life usecases from viewers!
@@BrendanOConnellWP Ya, a lot of us are way way behind where you are at and really need some spoon fed videos. Wish it wasn't so but this is most likely the case for many of us researching videos like this. I think most of us are looking for Step 1 (do this) Step 2 (do this) videos that really do not seem to exist. Its like trying to learn about a car engine and all you can find is overviews of how the engine works. Nice but you will never truly learn how to work on an engine by simply learning that you put gas in here..and oil in here videos.
Great suggestion! Definitely on my list. LMK what youd like to see exactly and I'll try and get something together. I do have some auto sync Woocommerce pricing from a spreadsheet/airtable/etc which is pretty cool. and what about posts? like an auto-blog? its also easy to insert AI into the flow to generate stuff as needed
Thanks Brendan. I used the videos you created on task magic to create posts for a CPT on project I was working on which was cool. I don't know if your automation videos will look at a number of automating technologies or will focus on a couple. I have an interest in automating ecommerce. For example setting up automations with say print on demand and surecart, looking at triggers and actions such as Trigger: New Order in SureCart Action: Create Order in Printful Trigger: Order Status Updated in Printful Action: Update Order Status in SureCart Trigger: Inventory Level Changes in Printful Action: Update Product Inventory in SureCart Trigger: New Product Created in Print full Action: Create Product in SureCart Trigger: Product Details Updated in Printful Action: Update Product in SureCart Trigger: Order Cancelled in SureCart Action: Cancel Order in Printful Trigger: Customer Information Updated in SureCart Action: Update Order Details in Printful Trigger: Order Error Occurs in Printful Action: Notify Admin in SureCart That type of ecommerce stuff. 👍
@@BrendanOConnellWP Not only the creation / manipulation of posts (data) of a Wordpress.. but how about automation starting with the very CREATION of a wordpress install. Presently I do alot with WP-CLI which is wayyyy faster than WP admin screens. But automating WP-CLI for creating and setting up different flavors of Wordpress installs (as a dev for dev stuff) on my own server would be golden! Why would I need Insta WP then?
Cool to see. I'm interested in putting in the time and learning as much as I can. Unfortunately I have no idea what to do with it. Kinda sucks to miss the boat again. I was a young Flash expert when it was huge but I was the fool making cartoons instead of trying to make money. Millions like me will be left behind once again, this time because it's just too nebulous. Outsiders like me who quit after HTML/CSS and some rudimentary js/python probably don't understand modern coding "stacks". It's demoralizing - I can put in the work now and spend my inflating money to try to learn while people who are currently employed in IT are getting everything spoonfed and funded by their employers risk-free because they have to remain competitive. They get to experience and understand all the cutting edge stuff and I'm over here watching youtube videos about models that are already inferior by the time a video comes out.
i think youre touching on some important points and it can feel demoralizing at times! That is partly why I made this video and will continue to make more - come on the journey with me, i'm learning this stuff in real time and make videos to help cement my own knowledge and fill gaps. there's never been a better time to be a 'learner' with how accessible many of these technologies are especially since you dont need to necessarily learn an entirely new language but build and expand and use low code solutions to fill gaps. keep your head up keep grinding, and you will feel better i think. you seem to have the desire to improve and that's more than a lot of people! shoot me over any questions happy to chat about these topics any time and help people gain some more confidence in their own abilities, its the whole point of this channel of mine!
So one of the advantage of Home Assistant, Huggin, Node Red and now n8n is that they're open source.. unlike Zapier , IFTTT and Make Integromat? What about costs associated with APIs and hosting.. is there any low-cost hobby tier? I remember OffCloud and IBM BlueMix was like this, but not anymore. I don't mind a pay-per-use model, but signing up for a monthly commitment wouldn't be worth it in my case. I think eventually, I'd like to setup self-hosting / DuckDNS / Proxmox but don't want to tackle too much at once.. for now, I think Google Cloud VM seems like it's the easiest way to get started learning the APIs (ex. Amadeus, Twilio), and AI tools (Custom GPT, AI Agents, Claude's Personal Projects)?
n8n (and activepieces, which is truly open source - n8n has a 'Sustainable Use License') can be self hosted on a cheap vps, so your only on going costs are that VPS and your time to manage it - however involved you want to be. What I'm doing is running it on Coolify, which can also be self hosted or cloud, and it connects the postgres db for me, handles updates, etc - but otherwise its fairly easy to get started self hosting. n8n also offer a 'ai agent starter kit' on git that can be run locally, or configured to run on a vps, and that has all self-hosted open/fair use tools, qdrant for vector store, postgres db, ollama for LLM, and n8n to connect them all. the set up for these types of deploys is getting less and less overhead. coolify is a nice self hosting tool for various tools, apis, cms, without much overhead - might be worth checking out but your usecases might be different.
good question, i don't have a crystal ball haha. but I don't see automation being replaced - there is still going to be a need for humans to create these systems moving forward. Understanding flows (and architecting them) is a good skill to have moving into the next phase imo!
firecrawl is really exciting and i suspect will we will see other types of these low code tools for this. You can scrape with automation and no direct access, but actual scraping tools are dedicated to these activities. the beauty of understanding APIs is that many of these tools can be directly integrated into automation flows without additional subscriptions sometimes.
yeah! supabase having a free tier means you can experiment with RAG, vector store, and have a postgres DB on top of it all to organize your tables. plenty of ways to get started with these topics without spending a single penny. just need some time to learn it a bit and itll start to click
You asked if I liked these kinds of videos? No I don't like them.... I LOVE them! This is what we as developers need more of. The only problem is you don't post enough!
Thanks my friend. Appreciate you. I will try and post more in 2025, its tough with how much work i do but i enjoy it and viewers seem to enjoy and get real value.
Thanx .. great breakdown!
Appreciate it thanks!
Great video Brendan, I don’t have any knowledge on automations. would you create videos series for automations fundamentals and how to get started with n8n?
its in the pipeline. I am finding it very useful and think others will too. There are also loads of existing youtube tutorials on using n8n so you can also start there (theyre probably gonna be better than mine!). let me know what sort of stuff you're looking to automate and well see if we can get some real life usecases from viewers!
+1 for more automation videos. Would love a deep dive into N8N's different AI Agents and use-cases.
Thanks Tav! Will be looking at this in the start of 2025 more and hoping to release some. Anything youre looking to automate in particular? let me know what sort of stuff you're looking to automate and well see if we can get some real life usecases from viewers!
@@BrendanOConnellWP Ya, a lot of us are way way behind where you are at and really need some spoon fed videos. Wish it wasn't so but this is most likely the case for many of us researching videos like this. I think most of us are looking for Step 1 (do this) Step 2 (do this) videos that really do not seem to exist. Its like trying to learn about a car engine and all you can find is overviews of how the engine works. Nice but you will never truly learn how to work on an engine by simply learning that you put gas in here..and oil in here videos.
+1 from here too. Really would like to learn how to use RAGs instead of Window Buffer Memory.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll make some getting started videos, moving up to more complex stuff like RAG and vector stores
Brillant video, particularly the first part! Would be nice to see some real integrations in Wordpress :)
Agreed!
its in the works. feel free to drop any particular WP related automations you're interested in and I'll add to the list of ideas for content
Great stuff
Thx!
Hi Brendon, Diggin' this stuff 👍
Cheers thanks DK. Hoping to make more of this stuff in 2025. happy end of year to you and yours
Cool stuff Brenda. Would love to see you do automations with woocommerce. Or automating the creation wordpress posts.
Great suggestion! Definitely on my list. LMK what youd like to see exactly and I'll try and get something together. I do have some auto sync Woocommerce pricing from a spreadsheet/airtable/etc which is pretty cool. and what about posts? like an auto-blog? its also easy to insert AI into the flow to generate stuff as needed
Thanks Brendan. I used the videos you created on task magic to create posts for a CPT on project I was working on which was cool. I don't know if your automation videos will look at a number of automating technologies or will focus on a couple. I have an interest in automating ecommerce. For example setting up automations with say print on demand and surecart, looking at triggers and actions such as
Trigger: New Order in SureCart
Action: Create Order in Printful
Trigger: Order Status Updated in Printful Action: Update Order Status in SureCart
Trigger: Inventory Level Changes in Printful
Action: Update Product Inventory in SureCart
Trigger: New Product Created in Print full
Action: Create Product in SureCart
Trigger: Product Details Updated in Printful
Action: Update Product in SureCart
Trigger: Order Cancelled in SureCart
Action: Cancel Order in Printful
Trigger: Customer Information Updated in SureCart
Action: Update Order Details in Printful
Trigger: Order Error Occurs in Printful
Action: Notify Admin in SureCart
That type of ecommerce stuff. 👍
@@BrendanOConnellWP Not only the creation / manipulation of posts (data) of a Wordpress.. but how about automation starting with the very CREATION of a wordpress install. Presently I do alot with WP-CLI which is wayyyy faster than WP admin screens. But automating WP-CLI for creating and setting up different flavors of Wordpress installs (as a dev for dev stuff) on my own server would be golden! Why would I need Insta WP then?
Cool to see. I'm interested in putting in the time and learning as much as I can. Unfortunately I have no idea what to do with it. Kinda sucks to miss the boat again. I was a young Flash expert when it was huge but I was the fool making cartoons instead of trying to make money. Millions like me will be left behind once again, this time because it's just too nebulous. Outsiders like me who quit after HTML/CSS and some rudimentary js/python probably don't understand modern coding "stacks". It's demoralizing - I can put in the work now and spend my inflating money to try to learn while people who are currently employed in IT are getting everything spoonfed and funded by their employers risk-free because they have to remain competitive. They get to experience and understand all the cutting edge stuff and I'm over here watching youtube videos about models that are already inferior by the time a video comes out.
hmm that sounded very negative, giving up is certainly not the way. But damn it's just hard to see the forest for the trees.
i think youre touching on some important points and it can feel demoralizing at times! That is partly why I made this video and will continue to make more - come on the journey with me, i'm learning this stuff in real time and make videos to help cement my own knowledge and fill gaps. there's never been a better time to be a 'learner' with how accessible many of these technologies are especially since you dont need to necessarily learn an entirely new language but build and expand and use low code solutions to fill gaps. keep your head up keep grinding, and you will feel better i think. you seem to have the desire to improve and that's more than a lot of people! shoot me over any questions happy to chat about these topics any time and help people gain some more confidence in their own abilities, its the whole point of this channel of mine!
So one of the advantage of Home Assistant, Huggin, Node Red and now n8n is that they're open source.. unlike Zapier , IFTTT and Make Integromat?
What about costs associated with APIs and hosting.. is there any low-cost hobby tier? I remember OffCloud and IBM BlueMix was like this, but not anymore. I don't mind a pay-per-use model, but signing up for a monthly commitment wouldn't be worth it in my case.
I think eventually, I'd like to setup self-hosting / DuckDNS / Proxmox but don't want to tackle too much at once..
for now, I think Google Cloud VM seems like it's the easiest way to get started learning the APIs (ex. Amadeus, Twilio), and AI tools (Custom GPT, AI Agents, Claude's Personal Projects)?
n8n (and activepieces, which is truly open source - n8n has a 'Sustainable Use License') can be self hosted on a cheap vps, so your only on going costs are that VPS and your time to manage it - however involved you want to be. What I'm doing is running it on Coolify, which can also be self hosted or cloud, and it connects the postgres db for me, handles updates, etc - but otherwise its fairly easy to get started self hosting. n8n also offer a 'ai agent starter kit' on git that can be run locally, or configured to run on a vps, and that has all self-hosted open/fair use tools, qdrant for vector store, postgres db, ollama for LLM, and n8n to connect them all. the set up for these types of deploys is getting less and less overhead. coolify is a nice self hosting tool for various tools, apis, cms, without much overhead - might be worth checking out but your usecases might be different.
i have question bro , if the agi appear , we will still use automation ?, " I'm beginnier automation learner " . thank you
good question, i don't have a crystal ball haha. but I don't see automation being replaced - there is still going to be a need for humans to create these systems moving forward. Understanding flows (and architecting them) is a good skill to have moving into the next phase imo!
Hi Brendan, awesome. Thanks. Anyway to scrape different website through automation?
Look at what he mentioned, ActivePieces. ActivePieces and Supabase both have a free tier, and they both are VERY generous!
Firecrawl?
firecrawl is really exciting and i suspect will we will see other types of these low code tools for this. You can scrape with automation and no direct access, but actual scraping tools are dedicated to these activities. the beauty of understanding APIs is that many of these tools can be directly integrated into automation flows without additional subscriptions sometimes.
yeah! supabase having a free tier means you can experiment with RAG, vector store, and have a postgres DB on top of it all to organize your tables. plenty of ways to get started with these topics without spending a single penny. just need some time to learn it a bit and itll start to click
@@BrendanOConnellWPwhat tools you think are the best?
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cheers 👍
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