Solo dev built lead intake bots in n8n with 160-conversation replay tests, still no paying clients
Tembl42017 · reddit · 2026-09-27
A solo developer shares a detailed n8n build for lead intake bots targeting real estate agencies and equipment rental firms: multi-channel (Telegram, web widget, forms), voice-input aware, ask-only-what's-missing logic, price questions routed to humans instead of hallucinated. Reliability work includes code-level validation of every model answer, watchdog checks every 10 minutes, error alerts, uptime monitoring, daily backups, and Google Sheets logging of model decisions.
For testing, the author hand-wrote 160 conversations with expected answers and a replay script that runs against a staging copy of the live workflow — a bit over half of the steps pass, with most failures being the bot asking one extra question on already-complete requests.
With no paying clients yet, the author asks the community how to price and sell the first engagement, drive team adoption, define pilot success metrics, and whether to switch to an architecture where the model only extracts data while code controls the flow.
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