Sage 50 has no API, so I am building one
Sage 50 Accounts still runs the books for a lot of established UK businesses, and it has no web API. Here are the routes that do exist for getting data in and out, why every one of them is awkward, and what I am building to fix it.
Tracking Companies House deadlines and director ID verification for every client
Director identity verification has added a new deadline to every company on the register, on top of accounts and confirmation statements. I built a monitor for small accountancy practices that watches all of them from the public register and emails the practice before anything slips.
How I built a system that finds me new n8n templates every day
n8n publishes thousands of community workflow templates and adds more every day. A scheduled workflow pulls the new ones, files them in Notion with a category and a difficulty, and sends the interesting ones to Telegram before breakfast.
Setting up email for cold outreach that actually lands
SPF, DKIM and DMARC are the part everyone writes about, and they took an afternoon. The thing that actually bounced a third of one campaign was the list. Both, from a one-person domain that has sent a few hundred cold emails.
I built a Shopify ROAS dashboard. A third of the merchants who need one aren't on Shopify.
The dashboard reports return on ad spend on net revenue, reconciled to the penny. Then I screened about 150 UK merchants running Google Ads, and the platform split changed what I sell and who I sell it to.
Five n8n and Notion mistakes I made so you don't have to
Notion is a good database for an n8n workflow right up until it isn't. The filter the node can't build, the property write that fails silently, and three more things I wish I had known before the first scanner shipped.
Why I decided not to build a LinkedIn automation tool
I spent weeks scoping a LinkedIn outreach tool with account safety as the whole pitch. Then I killed it. The reasons are the most useful thing I got out of it, and they changed what I am building instead.