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Hey everyone, I'm Josh I'm 19, based in the UK, and I build AI automation and outbound systems for business owners. I've already shipped a few real things: a contactless payment platform for schools that's live, different process automations for German Businesses, and I'm the technical cofounder of a data startup that just got full approval. And I'm building my agency around AI, automation & consulting, sold globally through a personal brand. Why I'm here: I do my best work around people who are actually building, and I've been doing this mostly solo. I want to fix that. So I'm looking to connect with one or two people who are also building something serious. Whether that's an accountability partner to keep each other on track daily, or just someone in the same trenches to swap wins, losses, and ideas with. Deffo not looking for motivation that dies in three days, looking for someone consistent who's in it for real. If that's you, or you're just building in AI and want to talk, comment or reach out. Glad to be here.

An automated email drip campaign in n8n that runs a full 7-day lead nurturing sequence — across multiple lead sources — with zero manual intervention. Here's what it does: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE SYSTEM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Two lead capture forms (Tally + Jotform) feed into a single Google Sheet as the lead database. Every submission triggers an immediate acknowledgment email, then the system auto-schedules 2 follow-ups: • Email #1 — Immediate (Thanks + acknowledgment) • Email #2 — Day 2 (More info + Calendly link) • Email #3 — Day 4 (Last touch — any questions?) A Schedule Trigger runs hourly, checks which leads are "due," and routes each lead through a Switch node to the correct email step. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Most drip campaigns are one-way. This one LISTENS: → A Gmail trigger watches for replies every minute → When a lead replies, it matches them in the sheet → Their status flips to "replied" → sequence stops instantly → A Slack notification fires: "🎉 {Name} replied about {Service Interest}!" No more emailing someone who already responded. No "you look spammy" moments. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EDGE CASES I HANDLED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Invalid emails → Regex validation → marked as "error" • Batch processing → 10 leads at a time → no Gmail rate limits • Unsubscribe link in every email → webhook → instant removal from the sequence • Error Trigger → Slack alert + email alert with the failed node name and error stack • Timezone-aware scheduling → Africa/Cairo → next_email_date calculated precisely • Retry logic → 3 retries with 5s delay on every Google Sheets operation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE STACK ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • n8n (orchestration) • Google Sheets (lead DB) • Gmail API (send + monitor) • Tally.so + Jotform (lead capture) • Slack (alerts) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY I BUILT THIS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I was auditing lead-handling for a real estate client. They had 300+ leads sitting in a spreadsheet — 60% had never