I built a fully automated outreach workflow using n8n — no manual emailing anymore

Nakul Kejriwal — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 08:26:59 +0000

Right now, I’ve just built a small, lightweight workflow that:

Scrapes the lead’s website

Extracts their services, tone, pain points, and opportunities

Generates a short, clean outreach email (subject + body)

Avoids fluff and robotic paragraphs

Works nicely for small batches of leads

It’s not some giant “at scale” system yet — this version is more like a compact prototype that shows what’s possible.

But even with a small setup, the surprising part was how much context gets ignored in normal outreach.
Most people send emails without even checking what the business actually does.

After using this, the emails feel way more natural and relevant.
Honestly, it feels closer to what outreach should’ve been from the start.

How this could evolve into a scalable system
If someone actually wanted to use this for high-volume outreach, there’s a bunch of ways it can be upgraded:

Parallel processing so hundreds of leads can be handled at the same time

Better enrichment before email generation (industry, revenue, services, social footprint)

Persona-based email styles instead of one generic format

Real follow-up sequences that adjust based on replies

Caching & rate limiting so you don’t overload crawlers or APIs

Brand-specific writing style so it genuinely feels like the agency wrote it

The prototype already shows the value — scaling it is just about adding smarter layers, not reinventing the whole thing.

If someone wants to use something like this for their agency
Even the small version works well for:

Web dev outreach

Automation/AI agencies

B2B service agencies

SaaS product outreach

Lead-gen teams doing manual emails

It ensures the message actually reflects the lead’s business instead of sounding copy-pasted.

If anyone’s exploring similar experiments or thinking about adapting this for their agency workflow, happy to talk about what I learned building it and what the scaled version could look like.

I Built a Short Video Sharing App Using Next.js + MongoDB

Nakul Kejriwal — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 09:35:15 +0000

I Built a Short Video Sharing App Using Next.js + MongoDB 🎥
Hey devs!

Over the last few weeks, I challenged myself to build something exciting — a fully functional short video sharing platform, inspired by YouTube Shorts.

Meet 👉 Streamora
🔗 GitHub Repo: github.com/nakul-3205/streamora-video-sharing-app

Why I Built This
I wanted to learn how actual video platforms work behind the scenes — from video uploads and real-time feed generation to cloud storage and authentication.

So I built Streamora from scratch to practice:

Video uploading & preview rendering

Secure user auth with GitHub login

Building a sleek feed UI with smooth performance

Working with Next.js App Router + MongoDB backend

Tech Stack
Frontend: Next.js 15 (App Router) + TypeScript

Styling: Tailwind CSS + Framer Motion

Backend: MongoDB (Mongoose) + REST API Routes

Auth: NextAuth.js (using GitHub provider only)

Media: ImageKit (for video upload and CDN)

Hosting: Vercel

Core Features
Upload videos

🔎 Explore trending videos

🎨 Clean dark UI with subtle animations

📦 Optimized for fast load with ImageKit CDN

🛠 Still in Progress
🗑️ Delete button for videos (yeah, the test cartoons need to go 😅)

🔄 Better redirect handling after signup/login

❤️ Like/comment system

👤 User profiles & creator pages

⚠️ And of course, handling ImageKit quota overages in production 🥲

🧠 What I Learned
Handling large file uploads in Next.js with formData + Buffer

Structuring clean full-stack apps using App Router

Protecting routes using getServerSession

Cloud-based media management + CDN optimizations

Real-world debugging of SSR quirks & auth redirects on Vercel

💬 Final Thoughts
This project was hands-on, buggy, and full of learning. Nothing teaches you like deploying real features and watching them kind of break in production 😅

If you're into full-stack dev and want to build a portfolio project that's both fun and technically rich — clone this and go wild!

🔗 Links
🎥 Live: streamora-video-sharing-app.vercel.app
💻 GitHub: github.com/nakul-3205/streamora-video-sharing-app

🏷️ Tags

nextjs #typescript #fullstack #mongodb #imagekit #vercel #showdev #webdev #auth #tailwindcss #sideproject #videoupload

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I built a fully automated outreach workflow using n8n — no manual emailing anymore

I Built a Short Video Sharing App Using Next.js + MongoDB

nextjs #typescript #fullstack #mongodb #imagekit #vercel #showdev #webdev #auth #tailwindcss #sideproject #videoupload