Originally written for r/n8n on Reddit — sharing here for the dev.to community.
I see a lot of n8n templates shared here that are either half-baked or broken. After going through my own production workflows, I picked the 10 I genuinely use every day and cleaned them up to share.
These run on my self-hosted n8n instance (Docker, single Hetzner VPS). Zero cloud dependencies. Each template is a single JSON file you can import directly.
Template 1: Smart Email Auto-Reply with Sentiment Analysis
Routes incoming emails based on sentiment (positive → auto-reply, negative → flag for human, neutral → queue for later).
