Hey folks —
I’m a product manager (non-dev) trying to survive in an early-stage startup, juggling marketing, operations, CRM, and everything in between.
So I thought: “Okay, let’s save time with automation!”
Everyone kept saying Make and competitors are the way to go. But as soon as I tried them, I was drowning in nodes, webhooks, auth tokens, and JSON errors.
It got me thinking… Am I just dumb? Or is this stuff genuinely hard for other non-devs too?
I’m trying to figure out if:
- This complexity is just me, or a common pain point among non-tech users
- People are actually saving time with automation, or just burning hours learning tools
- Whether building your own automation is worth it vs. just hiring a freelancer or using SaaS templates
So here’s the thing:
I’m exploring if there’s room for a better solution — maybe a simpler way to onboard non-devs into automation.
If you’re open to a 15-min casual Zoom/Discord chat, I’d love to hear about:
- What kind of work you tried to automate?
- Why you chose to build instead of using existing tools?
- Whether it actually saved you time in the end?
No sales. No spam. Just a tired PM looking for truth in this automation madness 
(And if it turns out this sucks for all of us… I might just try to fix it lol.)