[80:20 Rule] Complete n8n in 3 Hours

The reason I created this course

These are the complaints I've heard from clients I met while building automation systems for them, and from developer acquaintances nearby. Everyone had tried looking up tutorials and tinkering with tools on their own, but they were still struggling to build automation without help from others.

Can you solve your own problems with no-code tools?

What tedious tasks or high-potential work would you like to automate?

• People who solve their own automation problems by themselves

• People who use IT technology to create what they want to make on their own

I have clients whom I've helped by providing services to build automation systems together. Among them was someone responsible for our country's railway network, and there was also a business owner who operates tennis courts in various locations. These people who actively take interest in automation and efficiency were excellent leaders and entrepreneurs, regardless of the scale of the problems they were dealing with.

Instead of simply copying what others have made or looking for the easy way out, they wanted to boldly delegate those tedious tasks they really wanted to automate, tasks that seemed like they could be handed off to AI. That's how they set out to find automation tools.

These days, n8n is the go-to for AI automation!

However, including my clients, many people who attempted n8n get frustrated at this exact point. This is because they approached it with the perspective that since it's a 'no-code' tool, they don't need the basics and can just quickly learn application methods and use cases. Because there's no code, everything seemed easy on the surface. That's why I created this course.

• I thought I needed to teach the fundamentals required for all applications.

• However, I didn't want to create a boring basics course.

• While embedding the lessons into a project that the instructor painstakingly designed

  • Many concepts are naturally memorized as they repeatedly appear in the story within a short period of time, and

  • I wanted to create a course where you could actively imagine how these concepts could be applied.

If you don't want to be satisfied with simply 'following along' to build automation pipelines, but want to become someone who can directly construct your own automation tailored to your business and your work, yet don't want to spend too much time learning tools, I believe this course will offer a glimmer of hope.

You are the person who feels the pain from the problem you want to solve most acutely, while also being someone who knows how to fully control and tune the solution process. Learn the tools quickly, and let's move on to focus on your problems.

Gaps in Understanding

To introduce one of the concepts covered in the course and explain why fundamentals are necessary for no-code automation, let me give you a simple example. Take a look at the workflow in the screenshot below. Even for those seeing n8n for the first time, it should look quite simple.

At a glance, it looks like an automation that takes three names and three email addresses to send emails. If you run this automation, how many times will emails be sent in total? Since it fetches three names and three email addresses, will it only send three times? Then how many times does that rectangular box labeled 'Send Email' execute?

So what would change if we modified the automation above to look like this?

Hmm... instead of doing it like the captures above, wouldn't it work if we made it like the capture below?

If you find it difficult to answer these questions right away... that's 'normal'.

In fact, these are among the very points where even I, as a developer, underestimated n8n and wasted countless hours 'digging holes' through trial and error. After overcoming these seemingly minor walls 40 times, I had this thought.

The core of AI automation isn't AI

When you think of "n8n," the keyword that inevitably comes up is AI automation. You may have wanted to use n8n, a no-code tool, as your base camp to keep up with the times at the center of AX. Most content focuses on how to use AI in n8n in flashy ways.

But what's important is the ability to build a solid pipeline that brings in accurate data for AI to do its job properly, and seamlessly executes the next tasks using the results that AI produces.

n8n is powerful because it allows you to build highly sophisticated data processing pipelines without code and integrate AI into them. To delegate your work to n8n, you need to understand how n8n works and its key considerations.

Even no-code clearly requires fundamentals

You can certainly learn to use n8n well on your own through enough trial and error, even without a course like this. However, no one will compensate you for that inefficient learning time and struggle. This course compresses the precious time I wasted not understanding how n8n works into just 3-4 hours or so*.

In this short time, we'll carefully go through the basic operational principles of n8n that beginners most easily overlook. As we progress, we'll gradually incorporate AI bit by bit. We'll internalize these concepts by working together on simple yet practical and powerful AI-powered projects.

Stop wandering the internet looking for automation cases that perfectly fit your company's problems. I created this course hoping to quickly help you develop the ability to define your own problems, build your own automation, and continuously improve and utilize it.

This course is not suitable for:

• Those who prefer lectures with theory only

  • If we only covered theory just because it's fundamentals, it could easily become boring.

  • I've alternated between theory and practice, and broken down the path to the final result into multiple intermediate milestones with a narrative structure.

• People who prefer step-by-step tutorial-style courses

• People who want to learn how to implement complex AI agents

  
  

Course Introduction

I said that the more the instructor contemplates, the faster students learn. SOLVIT, which presented Korea's first n8n automation workflow construction content, spent over 150 hours deliberating for this 3-hour course.

Key concepts learned in the course

I can confidently say that the content introduced in this course is truly important for developing the ability to tune automation systems on your own. However, if you learn theory alone, it won't resonate and will be extremely boring.

In contrast, this course allows you to naturally understand concepts within the flow of a project as you encounter and solve problems. These explanations are continuously revisited throughout the project completion, structured so you can internalize them naturally, effectively reducing your sense of being overwhelmed.. Những giải thích này được nhắc lại liên tục cho đến khi hoàn thành dự án và được cấu trúc để bạn có thể tiếp thu một cách tự nhiên, giúp giảm bớt hiệu quả sự bối rối của bạn.

Here's an introduction to some of the content we'll be learning.

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