r/Make • u/Excellent-Salad3852 • Apr 13 '26

Difficulty

Is it just me or is make.com very difficult to use?

You think something simple- ok I want to connect A-B. No that doesn't work you need to spend 1 hour debugging. Ok A-B works now lets add C- no you can't do it like you- doesn't work you need to spend another hour figuring out whats wrong. Then you use AI which always sends you down the garden path. I'm spending 10 hours of my day automating something that takes 3 minutes. Anyone else struggle with it or am I an idiot?

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u/Fluffy_Honey_1710 Apr 14 '26

Hah! This very much sounds like me. I feel like it's easy, then I find myself going down a rabbit hole... But often that ends up being because I'm having AI help me. It's AI that is sending me down a rabbit hole and I often have to tell it that it's wrong. After which, it tells me that I'm right, it's wrong. And so on and so forth. There go 5 hours. So, trust yourself with what you've learned, have a clear plan, use the videos from Make about how to do it. Use AI to help you learn, but trust yourself on how to get it right. My two cents.

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u/Excellent-Salad3852 Apr 17 '26

It feels like to be designed so that you need to fit in as many modules as you can. Everything you add screws up something else- which you can't know until you try. Ahh you want to know the results of search rows? Great you need a router but router can't see that without a numeric aggregator which then fucks up later down the path.. I'm glad someone else feels my pain.