By day I'm an infrastructure engineer at Gcore, working on edge and distributed systems. By night I run a homelab — Proxmox, Docker, Coolify, a stack of self-hosted apps, and local LLMs on my own hardware. CreatorLab comes straight out of that world.
Why that background matters here
Years of running things in production teaches you a healthy distrust of magic. Systems break under load, in the gaps between tools, and right where someone assumed a step was safe to automate. That instinct is exactly what creator automation needs — because the failure mode here isn't downtime, it's publishing something off-brand to your audience.
It also makes me biased toward portability. I'd rather give you a workflow you can import, read, and run on your own runtime than a black box you rent. The Newsletter Research Desk ships as an n8n file with placeholder credentials, a schema, and a setup guide — not a login to someone else's platform.
- Workflows you can read, edit, and self-host
- Local-LLM-friendly — your keys and data stay yours
- Approval gates built in, not bolted on
Everything I publish here gets tested on real hardware before I write about it. I don't recommend things I wouldn't run myself.
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