Lab

Here I learn out loud.

Experiments, half-finished systems, and things I shut down. Every entry is dated — because the date is what turns an attempt into a trajectory.

2026
Entry 006 · Automation2026—06

Daily Email Assistant

Reads the day's mail, summarises it, and drafts replies — arriving on Telegram with buttons to approve or edit before anything is sent. The point is to keep the decision human and the labour automatic.

Status
In progress
Disciplines
Automation
Stack
n8n · Gmail API · Telegram Bot API · OpenAI
Role
A personal experiment — 21 nodes
Lesson

The easy part of automation is making it send. The hard part is making it stop and ask before it sends.

Entry 008 · Automation2026—06

Mass Broadcast Campaign — An Experiment I Shut Down

A broadcast system reading a list from a sheet and sending personalised messages at randomised intervals inside a safe time window. It worked technically — then WhatsApp restricted the number. I shut it down myself.

Status
Archived
Disciplines
Automation · Marketing
Stack
n8n · Telegram Bot API · WAHA · Google Sheets
Role
Designed it, built it, and killed it
Lesson

A system working technically does not make it safe to run. Broadcasting from the same number as the operational bot risked the whole asset for a short-term gain — separating the numbers is not an optimisation, it is a precondition.