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How long do you get to bid on a German public tender? I checked 187 notices

How long do you get to bid on a German public tender? I checked 187 notices

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How to build a daily B2B sales-signal feed from public tenders and hiring data with n8n

How to build a daily B2B sales-signal feed from public tenders and hiring data with n8n

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How to build an AI accounts-payable check for German e-invoices with n8n

How to build an AI accounts-payable check for German e-invoices with n8n

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I counted every server in the official MCP Registry: 59,603 entries, and October alone added 16,282

I counted every server in the official MCP Registry: 59,603 entries, and October alone added 16,282

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How to get German job listings from the Arbeitsagentur as JSON or CSV (Python and n8n)

How to get German job listings from the Arbeitsagentur as JSON or CSV (Python and n8n)

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How to parse XRechnung and ZUGFeRD e-invoices to JSON with Python or n8n

How to parse XRechnung and ZUGFeRD e-invoices to JSON with Python or n8n

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Which apprenticeships in Germany have the most open listings? I counted 192,106 Ausbildung offers by trade

Which apprenticeships in Germany have the most open listings? I counted 192,106 Ausbildung offers by trade

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How to get hourly German weather data (DWD) as JSON for demand forecasting, with Python and n8n

How to get hourly German weather data (DWD) as JSON for demand forecasting, with Python and n8n

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How to validate EU VAT numbers in bulk (VIES) with Python or n8n, and the 4 gotchas nobody tells you

How to validate EU VAT numbers in bulk (VIES) with Python or n8n, and the 4 gotchas nobody tells you

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Tether earned as much in 30 days as the next 13 crypto protocols combined: what DefiLlama's data says about where crypto money is made

Tether earned as much in 30 days as the next 13 crypto protocols combined: what DefiLlama's data says about where crypto money is made

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How to download German federal court decisions (BGH, BVerfG, BAG) as JSON and Markdown for legal RAG

How to download German federal court decisions (BGH, BVerfG, BAG) as JSON and Markdown for legal RAG

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I scanned 75 images on AI-heavy websites for AI labels: 0 had Content Credentials, 53% had no metadata at all

I scanned 75 images on AI-heavy websites for AI labels: 0 had Content Credentials, 53% had no metadata at all

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I tried to read the shipping and returns pages of 24 big German online shops by machine: 7 wouldn't let me, 1 had shipping markup

I tried to read the shipping and returns pages of 24 big German online shops by machine: 7 wouldn't let me, 1 had shipping markup

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Self-hosting an open text-to-speech model on serverless CPU: 4 GB was twice as fast as 2 GB and cost the same

Self-hosting an open text-to-speech model on serverless CPU: 4 GB was twice as fast as 2 GB and cost the same

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I weighed the home pages of 39 AI companies: median 3.1 MB, and one 7.4 MB PNG on Replicate's front page

I weighed the home pages of 39 AI companies: median 3.1 MB, and one 7.4 MB PNG on Replicate's front page

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Get a Slack alert when a competitor adds or removes product pages (n8n + sitemaps), and why you should ignore lastmod

Get a Slack alert when a competitor adds or removes product pages (n8n + sitemaps), and why you should ignore lastmod

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I checked the product markup of 14 well-known Shopify brands: all pass Google's minimum, only 2 tell machines what shipping costs

I checked the product markup of 14 well-known Shopify brands: all pass Google's minimum, only 2 tell machines what shipping costs

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I crawled 150 pages from 6 popular docs sites into RAG chunks: one page often eats half the token budget

I crawled 150 pages from 6 popular docs sites into RAG chunks: one page often eats half the token budget

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Can AI shopping agents get into Germany's biggest online shops? I checked 46: robots.txt is rarely the problem, the front door is

Can AI shopping agents get into Germany's biggest online shops? I checked 46: robots.txt is rarely the problem, the front door is

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I read the public DNS records of 44 AI companies: Cursor's verification token is on 27 of them, more than OpenAI's or Anthropic's

I read the public DNS records of 44 AI companies: Cursor's verification token is on 27 of them, more than OpenAI's or Anthropic's

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I read all 308 open jobs at xAI: 54% are in its data center team, and most of them are in Memphis

I read all 308 open jobs at xAI: 54% are in its data center team, and most of them are in Memphis

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We checked 100 German online shops for Abmahnung risks: 17 still link to a dead EU platform

We checked 100 German online shops for Abmahnung risks: 17 still link to a dead EU platform

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Do German online shops let AI agents in? We checked robots.txt, bot walls and llms.txt on 100 stores

Do German online shops let AI agents in? We checked robots.txt, bot walls and llms.txt on 100 stores

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I audited 100 German online stores for $0.03 with Node.js. Here's what broke (including my own code)

I audited 100 German online stores for $0.03 with Node.js. Here's what broke (including my own code)

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German tech companies hire mostly abroad, and none of their 279 German job ads I checked shows a salary

German tech companies hire mostly abroad, and none of their 279 German job ads I checked shows a salary

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How old are open job postings? A third of tech jobs were first posted 90+ days ago (one in 2019)

How old are open job postings? A third of tech jobs were first posted 90+ days ago (one in 2019)

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1 in 7 engineering jobs at 20 tech companies now has AI, ML or 'agent' in the title

1 in 7 engineering jobs at 20 tech companies now has AI, ML or 'agent' in the title

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n8n vs Zapier vs Power Automate vs Make: 5 years of Google search data, by country

n8n vs Zapier vs Power Automate vs Make: 5 years of Google search data, by country

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Germany's job board has a free JSON API: 821,306 open jobs and what its facets reveal

Germany's job board has a free JSON API: 821,306 open jobs and what its facets reveal

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Your AI news feed is missing half the story: one search, four Google News editions, 765 headlines

Your AI news feed is missing half the story: one search, four Google News editions, 765 headlines

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How to get YouTube transcripts in bulk (whole channels and playlists) as text or JSON, without the YouTube Data API

How to get YouTube transcripts in bulk (whole channels and playlists) as text or JSON, without the YouTube Data API

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How to scrape Workday job postings (myworkdayjobs.com) as JSON: the 2,000-result limit and how to get around it

How to scrape Workday job postings (myworkdayjobs.com) as JSON: the 2,000-result limit and how to get around it

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A PDF inbox that summarises itself: Google Drive, n8n and an LLM (free workflow)

A PDF inbox that summarises itself: Google Drive, n8n and an LLM (free workflow)

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Bulk-remove backgrounds from product photos for Amazon and Shopify (white or transparent) without paying remove.bg prices

Bulk-remove backgrounds from product photos for Amazon and Shopify (white or transparent) without paying remove.bg prices

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What 2,698 open jobs at 10 AI companies say about where the labs are hiring

What 2,698 open jobs at 10 AI companies say about where the labs are hiring

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PDF to clean Markdown for RAG: chunking-ready text from PDFs, Word and scanned files

PDF to clean Markdown for RAG: chunking-ready text from PDFs, Word and scanned files

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Bulk-upscale product photos from a Google Sheet with n8n and Real-ESRGAN

Bulk-upscale product photos from a Google Sheet with n8n and Real-ESRGAN

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Hiring signals: get a Slack alert when target companies post new jobs (n8n)

Hiring signals: get a Slack alert when target companies post new jobs (n8n)

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Build a weekly Google Trends report in Google Sheets with n8n (no pytrends)

Build a weekly Google Trends report in Google Sheets with n8n (no pytrends)

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A daily competitor news digest in Slack for ~$1.50 a month (n8n + Google News)

A daily competitor news digest in Slack for ~$1.50 a month (n8n + Google News)

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Summarise any YouTube channel into Google Sheets with n8n (free workflow)

Summarise any YouTube channel into Google Sheets with n8n (free workflow)

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