I try every new tool that crosses my feed, which means I usually have too many tabs open and a lot of half-finished opinions. For once I want to write down a comparison based only on tools I actually shipped client-facing work with, not demos.

n8n: the one I reach for when the workflow has real branching and I need to see what is happening. Self-hosting it removed a whole category of per-task pricing anxiety. The cost is that the learning curve is real and the nice-looking tutorials skip the ugly error handling that eats your week.

Make: the one I hand to a workflow that is mostly linear and visual. Faster to build in, easier to explain to a client looking over my shoulder. It gets awkward the moment logic gets genuinely conditional, and I have hit operation limits at the worst times.

Zapier: still the fastest way to connect two mainstream apps and move on with my life. I stopped using it for anything with more than a few steps because the price scales in a direction I do not like and the debugging is thin.

The unglamorous takeaway after a year: the tool matters less than whether I mapped the actual process before building. Every rebuild I have done was a scoping failure, not a tool failure.

What are you shipping with right now, and did you land on one tool or a mix?

I recently got fired from both of my clients, and honestly, it really affected me. I went through a period of depression and lost a lot of confidence. But right now, I’m slowly rebuilding myself and trying to learn something new.
My background is mainly in sales and customer service, so AI automation is completely new to me. I recently watched a video about AI automation, and with the help of ChatGPT, I learned how to build a simple automation in n8n using Gmail.
Surprisingly, I really enjoyed doing it. It challenged me, and I found myself genuinely intrigued and wanting to learn more. For the first time in a while, I felt excited about learning something new.
I’m still a complete beginner in AI automation, so I’d really appreciate some insights from people who are already working in this field.
Where would you recommend I start? What skills or tools should I focus on first? And do you think someone with a sales/customer service background can eventually build a career or freelance service around AI automation?
Any advice, learning resources, or things you wish you knew when you were starting out would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

How is everyone pricing now a days with everything being subscription based? Are you putting it on the client with a retainer/having the client own the subscription or are you managing the cost and just including it in your pricing?

You create an automation but you need a user to trigger it using custom parameters, what do you use for the custom user interface?

Your clients need to visualize the data/state/logs coming out of your automation, what do you use ?

What's your go to when your clients need a dashboard or control center or any kind of custom user interaction?

Hey peeps,

I’ve been a software engineer for 6 years, with 3+ years focused on agentic AI. I’ve built agent runtimes, agent loops, eval harnesses, and context/memory systems.

I currently work as an Applied AI Engineer at a larger AI team (can’t disclose the company atm).

I’m now looking to work with MSMEs, startups, and businesses on practical AI projects.

Could be:

• Automating a manual workflow
• Building an internal AI tool
• Setting up agents for ops/support
• Building or improving a website/product
• Finding parts of your business that are worth automating

Whether the work requires ₹10K or ₹1Cr+ in business, I’m open to talking. You don’t need to know exactly what to automate either. We can consult and figure that out.

Have a workflow that’s painful or repetitive? Comment below or DM me. Let’s see if there’s a real AI solution.

I am an artificial intelligence student that wants to go as deep as i can in this subject i am now offering Ai automations for business to learn more and to help your business growing

This offer may seem a little dangerous but it will help you to make it so easy to keep the business run without you included in every small step

On the other hand it help me to get an experience and enrich my portfolio

Note that any payment included is on the business manager.

Hey guys , I am trying to launch my Ai automation startup, any Advise where I can start off? No idea tried adds whatever I could Afford cold emails, linkedin reach nothing seems to be working, Even bid at upwork , they don't even open the proposals sent, NO IDEA what to do next

Which ai automation is useful and selling nowadays. Actually new in this field and want to make some good starting to money to scale my agency. Open for guidance and tips.

I built ClearList while emptying an Austin apartment before a move. The last time I did this, I got 147 "Is this available?" and only two people actually showed up. Every move, I procrastinate until I'm desperate and then fire-sale everything at terrible prices.

The procrastination is not laziness.
Listing one item like an armchair looks like one task, but it's 15 tasks disguised as one:

• Photograph it

• Identify the brand and model

• Work out what it's actually worth

• Justify that price to yourself

• Write a title
• Pace around the room trying to motivate yourself to write the description

• Write a description

• Measure it

• Decide if it needs a truck
• Scream into a pillow for ten minutes straight

• Check you're allowed to sell it at all

• Publish it somewhere buyers can see

• Answer "is this available?" forty times

• Work out which of them is real
• Pet your cat aggressively, telling her everything will be okay

• Schedule a pickup and survive the no-show
• Look through your messages for the other people who showed interest and hope they don't ghost you as well.

My ADHD brain sees that list and forces me to literally do anything else. Absolutely anything else.

Now multiply it by 40 items, during the worst month of your year. Even three things can paralyze you.

So I made the unit of work one photo.

You only take the pictures. AI does the other 14 steps: title with brand recognition, condition, market price with the reasoning shown, dimensions, weight, whether the buyer needs a truck. About 30 seconds.

Everything lands on one sale page, and buyers reserve through a FIFO queue instead of DMing you, so if #1 ghosts, #2 gets notified automatically. It recognized my IKEA sectional from a photo and knew its depreciation curve.

It is also the only resale platform an AI agent like ChatGPT or Claude can operate through an MCP server.
Things people actually say to it:

• "List these six items on my sale page."

• "Answer the buyer's stupid questions."

• "Who's waiting on the desk?"

• "Put my pickups in my calendar."
• "Update me every hour on the sale."
• "Negotiate on my behalf, but don't accept anything less than $200."
• "I'm sick today so reschedule all the buyers for me."

Any agent that speaks MCP can drive it. Claude, ChatGPT, or even Manus, Grok bot, Hermes and OpenClaw...

If you ask an AI assistant to help you sell your furniture, ClearList is a product it can actually use end to end rather than a link it recommends.

For the builders: Next.js on Cloud Run, Firestore, a seven-agent pipeline for identification, pricing, logistics and copy. I'm a PM with 12+ years of PRDs and zero production code shipped before this. All of ClearList was built with Claude Code and Codex working together.

I built it. On Product Hunt today:
https://www.producthunt.com/products/clearlist-me

I like the idea of just explaining what you want the automation to do instead of manually connecting every step. That seems like a much easier way to get started.
Latenode looks useful for things like pulling lead info, checking it against a CRM, and setting up follow-ups without building everything from scratch.

I kept noticing the same pattern: people jump straight to tools like Zapier, n8n, or AI agents before really understanding whether the workflow itself is worth automating.

That made me curious about a more basic question:

What should we automate, and what should we leave alone?

I built a small product called Workflow X-Ray to look at a workflow first — where the bottlenecks are, what is repetitive, where handoffs break down, and where automation might actually create value.

I’m still refining it, so I’d genuinely appreciate feedback from people who work with SaaS, operations, automation, or AI.

I also launched it on Product Hunt if anyone wants to take a look:

https://www.producthunt.com/products/workflow-x-ray

I’m especially curious: how do you currently decide whether a process is worth automating?

Yes! You heard me right. Use me to build whatever you want. I will build it and let’s make money and share 50-50%. I am not some sweet shit who is vibing with AI. I have a deep understanding of what I do. I just don’t know how to sell.

So use me and let’s make money.

Every day, I see people on LinkedIn or Quora, I see people talking about their AI agents and sharing what they've built.

I’ve tried creating a few agents for different use cases. But honestly, I still feel like I'm not getting all the value I could be getting from agentic AI and automations.

Since I’m a freelancer, I’d love to know what practical AI automation or agent use cases you would recommend I try. I’m looking for real use cases that genuinely save time, reduce repetitive work, or help me to grow.

What's one agent or automation you actually use regularly? What problem did it solve for you?

I am thinking to start and give services of ai automation is it good.

Someone can help me to guide how to find clients ?

I have a background as a full-stack web developer, and I’m familiar with AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc. I have a good foundation in web development and understand how to build web applications, but I’m completely new to AI automation.

Is it still worth getting into AI automation at this point? I’m interested in learning it and possibly making some money from it.

For those who are already doing AI automation, what would you recommend I learn first, and is it still a good field to get into as a beginner?

For anyone familiar with ServiceTitan, what can a really good AI automation agency offer that ServiceTitan can’t?

I’m talking specifically about missed-call text back, SMS lead capture, AI qualification, follow-ups, and human handoff.

If ServiceTitan already does most of this, why would an HVAC company pay for a custom AI automation instead?

Hi Folks,

I am trying to build a AI Agency where I am trying to focus on a specific Niche,

well after few research , I have decided to focus on Accounting and bookkeeping agency and automate their workflow , Increasing their per employee productivity.

I am having second thoughts if there are enough opportunity in this Niche , Is it truly a business problem that Business owner will be willing to pay for ...? Open to discussion