Stop Wasting Operations in Make.com (Simple Fix)

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One common mistake I keep seeing:
Scenarios running every 1–5 minutes… even when there’s no new data.

This quietly burns through operations.

Better approach:

→ Use Webhooks instead of polling whenever possible
→ Add filters early in the flow (don’t process unnecessary data)
→ Use a Data Store to prevent duplicate processing
→ Split large scenarios into smaller, modular flows

Simple pattern that works well:

Trigger (Webhook) → Process → Store (Data Store) → Notify

In one of my setups, switching from polling to webhooks reduced operations by 70%+.

How are you currently optimizing your ops usage in Make?

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Unfortunately, a lot of things on the internet do not have webhooks, like RSS feeds and web pages.

Usually, to get around the “polling” limitation, you can either build your own or use a third-party service to perform the polling/monitoring, then notify your Make webhook if there are any changes.

For example, instead of polling an RSS feed, you can use VisualPing, which has webhooks on the free plan.

— @samliew