House of Loops is a free community for people who want working workflows, not more videos. Real n8n templates, live build sessions, and a founder who answers. Run by Shannon Atkinson.
Founding members get direct access and early templates. No credit card, no upsell wall.
The community
Templates, live builds, and a place to ask when a workflow breaks. Free, and you can see the feed before you post.
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A new template or guide each week, with the JSON and the reasoning. Not ready to join? Start here.
Here is what exists today and what is being built. The community is new, so you will see it grow rather than arrive at a finished archive.
Docker, self-hosted or cloud. Installation, configuration, security, and your first workflow, written from a production setup.
n8n vs Make vs Zapier, building AI agents with n8n and OpenAI, RAG with Pinecone, enterprise automation architecture, and more.
46 automation, database, AI, and cloud tools with notes on when to pick each, plus side-by-side comparisons.
The first 10 n8n templates with the JSON, a diagram, and the decisions behind each. Posted in the classroom as they ship.
Watch a workflow get built end to end, ask questions while it happens, and get the recording afterwards.
Post the workflow that broke. At this size, the person who replies is the person who built the templates.
Who runs this
I build the unglamorous side of software for a living: the workflows that move data between systems, the automations that run at 3 a.m., and the AI agents that have to behave when someone's revenue depends on them. Through Rainman Design I do that for businesses, mostly with n8n, self-hosted infrastructure, and LLM integrations.
I also ship my own products, from a self-hosted restreaming platform to payment-recovery tooling and open-source nodes for n8n, so I hit the same walls members do. House of Loops is where I share what survived contact with production: the templates I actually run, the guides written from real deployments, and straight answers when your workflow breaks.
The community opened recently and is small on purpose. That is the trade: fewer people, more attention. Here is what joining now gets you.
Guides and comparisons for n8n, Make, Zapier, and AI agents. Every post is free; the community is where the follow-up questions get answered.
Self-host n8n 2.38 with Docker Compose: Postgres, the runners sidecar, your owner account, and a working Code node workflow — no basic auth, all in 15 minutes.
Split n8n across main and worker processes with Redis and Postgres. A five-service Docker Compose stack for horizontal scaling, tested, scaled, and updated.
How n8n task runners isolate the Code node from your credentials and encryption key, with a complete external-mode Docker Compose stack and native Python setup.
Pick the door that fits. The community is free and open today; the newsletter brings one new workflow to your inbox each week.
The community
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