We hustle daily, right?

One day is great, followed by several down days, at times.

But we keep building and eventually we earn trust.

I decided to share my ~ 3 year journey on Solopreneurship on Medium.

People loved it.

Why though?

I was a bit surprised, but then again in hindsight it makes sense.

People love reading about how to make money.

Just think of the algorithms that rule our life.

1. I make $5K/day easy
2. How to make $349 in 1 day
3. etc.

The lists go on.

But as someone who lives in reality, I thought I'd share the hard truth behind solopreneurship and surprisingly how writing about it has resulted in a funnel for my freelancing services!

This video tutorial shows how to build a complete web scraping workflow by combining Crawl4AI, n8n, DigitalOcean, and Supabase. It walks through checking site permissions (robots.txt, sitemap.xml), setting up a Docker-hosted Crawl4AI endpoint on DigitalOcean (with memory sizing, port configuration, and securing via API token), and then building an n8n flow to fetch URLs from a sitemap, loop through them, scrape each listing, and finally push structured data into Supabase for retrieval and use in a RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) system. The result: you can ask natural-language questions (e.g. “any four bedroom listings?”) and have your AI agent answer based on fresh scraped data.

Watch the tutorial here

High ranking content has fundamentally achieved 3 things.

1. Content that hooks people
2. It is posted in the right places at the right time
3. The right keywords are used.

This is a highly distilled version of the art of content marketing.

Purpose of this post is to provide a framework that you can use today to achieve results within days with a focus on keywords.

Why it works

This is how I grew my YouTube channel in the last year, with a few explosions here and there, as you can see.

Tutorial video for the visual learners is here.

If you want to read the longer version, check the Medium article I wrote.

XI Labs just announced the Chroma Awards -- it's not exactly a job, but you can get rewarded if you are good

what it is: a Gen AI hackathon for AI in Film, Music, and Games

• 📅 Key Dates:
• Aug 18 — Categories, rules, and prizes revealed
• Sept 1 — $1M in free trials + submissions open
• Nov 3 — Submissions close, judging starts
• Dec 7 — $150K in cash prizes awarded

I revived my language learning platform, Llanai. I am documenting the building in public here.

Vision is to make language learning a social activity among AI agents, teachers, and students, while keeping the goal of fluency, finding jobs, and forming a network as the driving forces for its growth.

Let me know if you are a teacher or you know of anyone that is a teacher.

July is my 3rd straight month of making Gumroad revenue using a workflow automation tool called n8n. If you are unfamiliar with it check the following article.

In July, I detailed how to use n8n to make a small, but growing source, of passive income. This has largely been driven by my consistent marketing presence on YouTube and Medium.

How I did it

YouTube is one of the ways I educate people on the intersection of AI and information technology, in simple terms, which is the niche I am carving out — there are way more non-technical people than technical people, so I am better off targeting them former.

Whether, it’s about practical automations, such as

• generating schema markup to appear on ChatGPT
• creating an intelligent customer service representative for your site

or experimental use cases, such as

• making generative video using Google’s Veo3
• animating pictures using models served on HuggingFace

There is a plethora of content I use as a funnel to my brand.

I wrote more about it here.

As some of you know, I have a small side hustle selling n8n automations.

A resident of Japan bought one of my Reddit Lead Generation workflows.

It's a simple workflow that sends Reddit threads that contain the relevant keywords.

You can find the more detailed workflow description here.

Here's a tutorial.

This is a comprehensive video that covers 5 ways (local and cloud based) to host n8n.

1. npm
2. docker
3. render
4. railway
5. digital ocean

I learned a lot making this video. Now I can save my clients' money. I am sure they will appreciate it !

Greetings everyone,

I have a few different sidestreams and I am currently using n8n at the core of my work from YouTube, Gumroad, to client work.

I find June's revenue to be a validation once again, especially for those interested in appearing in AI Search ($84 out of $110)

It helped me quite a lot that I my YouTube channel has grown. I added 83 subs. The video that helped me out the most was my n8n automation for creating Veo3 videos.

Keep making.

In the last post, I shared how you can self-host via npm. If you are looking to run n8n locally for yourself without overhead -- that's the best way!

However, if you are considering of having cron triggers or using n8n as your backend 24/7, then this is a great tutorial for you.

All in all, it's quite simple.

Steps

If you have downloaded Docker, go to Step 3

1. Download Docker from Docker dot com — pick the version that matches your computer
2. Install it > Open the Docker App on Desktop
3. Docker Hub > Search for n8n
4. Choose n8nio/n8n > Click “Pull”
5. Images > Click the “Run” button to start > Expand the dropdown menu of the Optional Setting
6. Ports: you can input whatever port you like, e.g. 5678, under the host port field > Run

Full YT Tutorial