n8n Automation in Practice: 63 Real Workflows

Learn n8n by building and running 63 real automations, from your first webhook to order pipelines, invoice reminders, uptime monitors, AI ticket triage and an operations briefing. Every workflow is a ready-to-import file that was executed against a real n8n with Postgres, a fake inbox and a mock service lab, and the output on the page is what it really produced.

Who it is for

Developers, analysts, founders and operations people who want to automate repetitive work without writing a full application. Basic JSON and a little JavaScript help but are explained as you go.

Before you start

• A laptop that can run Docker (the setup page walks you through it)
• Comfort with copy-paste commands in a terminal
• No earlier n8n or programming-heavy automation experience is needed

What you will be able to do

• Build, test, schedule and debug n8n workflows with triggers, expressions and the Code node
• Move data between APIs, email, files and Postgres reliably, with pagination, batching and retries
• Handle failures with error workflows, dead letters and de-duplication so automations never fail silently
• Automate real business jobs for sales, e-commerce, HR, finance, DevOps and personal productivity
• Add AI steps (classify, extract, draft, retrieve, call tools) with a human in the loop
• {'Run n8n in production': 'reusable sub-workflows, security, backups and scaling'}