I run an operations agency and have a few people on my team who work with n8n.
What I’m missing is someone with a more traditional development background who is experienced in web scraping and creating and hosting full-code applications for use-cases where no-code is too expensive or unable to keep up.
I’ve been repeatedly hitting brick walls with SaaS tools that have incomplete public APIs and need to have web scraping as an option because they usually have a very useful internal API that can only be accessed with a signed in user session/cookie.
Here are some specific things I’m looking to get done in the next few months:
- Create solutions for SaaS tools like Circle.so to use a bot to log in as a user, obtain a session cookie, and pass it back to n8n for automations. (Alternatively for tools with more login security, notifying a user to log in to obtain the cookie and somehow pass it back to n8n).
- Help set up n8n self-hosted with scalable infrastructure that is resistant to large volumes of incoming webhooks, etc. and capable of notifying someone when it’s down. (I’ve set up n8n on DigitalOcean with docker already following the basic setup steps, but I am not good at server infrastructure and self-hosting)
- Can help me migrate some heavy usage automations to something like Cloudflare workers or another option that is more cost effective
- Bonus: Create chrome extensions that we can distribute to clients via Google workspace that allow them to run certain automations we build from their browser
- Bonus: Create a custom AI chatbot using the OpenAI assistants API which supports streaming the response and function calling
I am not looking for someone who dabbles in code and primarily uses AI to write it—I can do that already. I need someone who already understands the concepts and knows how to do this stuff.
More about working with Datos here: Team | Datos Operations
In terms of availability, I expect this will be 4-5 hours/week initially but may increase if this becomes a larger part of my client offering.