n8n is an automation tool you run yourself. This page treats it not as product news but as a working path: from installation to projects that keep running. The articles build on each other.
Self-hosting n8n on a Synology NAS is the starting point. Secure access through a Cloudflare Tunnel makes the instance reachable from outside without exposing it. The digital AI newsroom shows a complete editorial pipeline, automatically evaluating podcasts, YouTube and websites extends it with transcription and summarisation, and the self-hosted AI phone assistant is a very different project on the same foundation.
Where automation ends and an agent begins is covered under AI Agents.
A Press Review with AI That Is Ready Every Monday as a Finished Email Draft, Without a Server, Without a Database, Without Docker Imagine it is Monday morning. You switch the computer on, and in the project folder there is a finished email draft: three thousand words of weekly review covering everything that has happened
16 sources, a good 100,000 words of raw material per week, 2,800 words of result. Step by step: 32 nodes, every click sequence, every code node complete and ready to copy. There is a moment that everyone knows who tries to follow a subject area. You have built yourself a news stream, a few newsletters,
What you’re building in this tutorial is not an answering machine. It’s an AI phone assistant that automatically answers calls, conducts a structured conversation – asking for the caller’s name, their request, and its urgency – and then sends you a complete email summary. All in natural language, in German. The whole thing runs on your Synology
What you are building in this tutorial is not a Google Alert. It’s a fully autonomous AI editorial system that researches AI topics every day, writes complete articles, generates cover images with AI, and publishes them on WordPress. The system automatically scans the internet for the most important developments in the field of artificial intelligence. The brain
There is a moment many know: n8n is running cleanly in your own network (an exact step-by-step guide for setting up n8n via Docker can be found here). You’re clicking your first workflows, webhooks are working locally – and then comes the desire to go public. Access from anywhere. Reliable URLs for Stripe, GitHub, or
Automation was long considered the domain of large enterprises: expensive, complex, difficult to control. With n8n, that has changed. Suddenly, enterprise-grade automation can run on a device that many people already have sitting in their basement or home office: a Synology DiskStation. In this guide, I’ll show you step-by-step how to self-host n8n – cleanly