Hey everyone! 👋 I'm currently starting an AI automation agency and I'm exploring the e-commerce niche. For those of you with experience in this space, what services would you recommend a beginner start with that provide genuine value to e-commerce brands? I'm looking for something relatively simple to build but that solves a real problem businesses would actually pay for. Any advice or personal experience would be greatly appreciated! 🙏

Hello people. I am Samuel Terkula, I just joined this amazing community and I am really really grateful to be here, I hope to interact, gain and share knowledge with this community in the best way we can.

For people starting their agency and is looking to grow, would you mind presenting any tips and advice to get your agency of the ground and scaling further?

I am just wondering, what things/tools/services do I need to know and types of automations I need to know how to build to qualify as a developer, even a beginner but still a proper dev. Is it more important to simply know a bunch of different platforms/sites to build from and different types of integrations, API tools? Or rather knowing how to use different tools/sites in general? I assume a mix of both is important, I would like to hear some advice. I would also like to know how I can find clients or businesses, I can mainly target customer-support and lead-generation in a variety of businesses like real-estate and cleaning/renovation.

What it does: Sends up to two emails to customers who abandon a cart, and skips the second email if they buy in the meantime. How it flows: 1. Webhook receives the cart data (email, name, cart_id, item). 2. Wait, then If checks the "purchased" value in the link. "true" stops the run, "false" continues. 3. Gmail sends the first reminder. 4. Wait1, then Get row(s) looks for the cart_id in the "purchases" data table. 5. If1 checks whether a row was found. A row means they bought, so the run stops. No row means the second email (with a discount) goes out. Fake store for testing: A second workflow (Webhook, then Insert row) writes a cart_id into the "purchases" table. Opening its link simulates a purchase. The two workflows share the data table, and the cart_id is what matches them. Key fixes along the way: - Browser links send GET requests, so data arrives under "query", not "body". - Turn on "Always Output Data" on the Get row(s) node, or the workflow stops when no row is found. - If1 must check {{ $json.cart_id }} with "is not empty", not the old "purchased" value. - Reference earlier data after Gmail/Wait nodes with $('Webhook').item.json.query.cart_id. - Test URLs (/webhook-test/) catch one request after clicking Execute workflow. Production URLs (/webhook/) need the workflow published. Still to do: - Connect a real store (POST payload instead of GET). - Replace the fake purchase table with a real order lookup. - Expose the webhook with a tunnel or hosted n8n. - Set real wait times (for example 1 hour and 24 hours). - Swap in the real cart link, discount code, and brand name.