https://hourbench.tech/blog.html Short, checkable notes on AI and no-code automation for small businesses. en Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://hourbench.tech/blog-n8n-zugangsdaten-sicherheitsupdate.html https://hourbench.tech/blog-n8n-zugangsdaten-sicherheitsupdate.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 A high-severity flaw could let an ordinary member extract credentials from the instance. Patched releases are available. https://hourbench.tech/blog-ai-act-artikel-50.html https://hourbench.tech/blog-ai-act-artikel-50.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Article 50 became applicable on 2 August 2026. Most of it lands on the model vendors, not on you. But three things do land on you, and two of them are one line of text. https://hourbench.tech/blog-wen-wir-bedienen.html https://hourbench.tech/blog-wen-wir-bedienen.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Most people who buy an automation product don't have an automation problem. They have a Tuesday problem. Here is the person these workflows were chosen for, the work they take off the pile, and four honest reasons to walk away. https://hourbench.tech/blog-n8n-2-umstieg.html https://hourbench.tech/blog-n8n-2-umstieg.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Version 2 was a hardening release, not a feature release. Which is exactly why it breaks things quietly: your workflow still opens, it just stops doing what it did. https://hourbench.tech/blog-mcp-standard.html https://hourbench.tech/blog-mcp-standard.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Two years ago it was an Anthropic protocol. Now it sits under the Linux Foundation, OpenAI and Google ship it, and your n8n instance can be both ends of it. https://hourbench.tech/blog-entwurf-statt-senden.html https://hourbench.tech/blog-entwurf-statt-senden.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 A wrong draft costs you five seconds. A wrong email costs you a client. Almost every automation people abandon was abandoned because it sent something. https://hourbench.tech/blog-automatisierungs-szene-2026.html https://hourbench.tech/blog-automatisierungs-szene-2026.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Four layers, three billing units, and one bottleneck that none of the vendors is selling a fix for. What the landscape actually looks like from a one-person business, with the numbers taken off the vendors' own pricing pages. https://hourbench.tech/blog-posteingang-sichten-ohne-anfrageverlust.html https://hourbench.tech/blog-posteingang-sichten-ohne-anfrageverlust.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 An inbox classifier is useful only when its mistakes remain recoverable. Here is how workflow 02.01 labels mail, decides when to interrupt you, and leaves a trail when the model gets it wrong. https://hourbench.tech/blog-warum-n8n-und-nicht-zapier.html https://hourbench.tech/blog-warum-n8n-und-nicht-zapier.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Two reasons, one of which is money and the more important one isn't. Plus the four cases where Zapier is the better answer and we will say so. https://hourbench.tech/blog-fuenf-denkfehler.html https://hourbench.tech/blog-fuenf-denkfehler.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 None of them is a technical failure. Four are decisions made in the first hour, and the fifth is a decision nobody makes at all.