Daily Validated Business Ideas using n8n and Upwork

How it works

• Runs at set times to fetch new Upwork job listings.
• Checks each job’s total or hourly budget and keeps only higher-budget ones.
• Extracts the job description for those selected jobs.
• Uses AI to identify the core business idea from each description.
• Records the idea and job details into a Google Sheet.
• Can also be triggered manually to process a single job description.

Set up steps

• Required: Upwork API key, AI service key, and a Google Sheet.
• Import: Bring the JSON into n8n.
• Configure: Enter your API keys and connect to your Google Sheet.
• Time: About 25–35 minutes to complete all steps.
• Notes: Detailed setup instructions are added as sticky notes inside the workflow.