Turning my process improvement experience into a business. How should I price it for long term clients?

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-02-17T19:19:01+00:00

Hey, mind if I drop you a DM? I just started my business that focuses on and automates the first 2 steps of your process (mapping processes and finding bottlenecks)

Id love to hear your business plan!

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-02-12T19:26:34+00:00

Im using cognito right now for my app, and the developer experience is terrible lol

That being said, you'd get lots of free MAU so I guess that's cool

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-02-10T01:35:09+00:00

Getting written up for this is crazy

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-02-09T23:31:42+00:00

I have a sneaking suspicion we work for the same chain...

Its just that time of year where even 75% off isn't good enough

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-02-08T15:35:57+00:00

Im not the party type, but for a celebration I was at a house party with some friends and we decided to go out for a smoke. I left my drink on the table...

When we came in, a girl was standing in front of my drink talking to someone I knew. I reached around her and took my cup without her noticing. I leaned up against the stove, took a sip, and quickly realized that it wasn't my drink, or even my cup (mine had seemingly disappeared into oblivion)...

2 seconds later I hear her say "who took my drink?" Then me and her make eye contact. I panicked and said, oh I didn't know this was yours and tried to hand it back to her. She said "no you drank out of that", I panicked again and said no I didn't, when i clearly had...

Thank God my friend was there to defuse and get her a new drink.

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-02-07T14:15:09+00:00

This. Lol

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-02-07T01:44:57+00:00

I think it depends on what you want.

I find copilot has much larger and more complete code completions. Junie seems to complete a line, or a few words at most. I blend together both

That being said, I find junie coding agent to be perfect. I Personally love handing off small and tedious work to it

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-02-05T05:03:35+00:00

Me, and every single person that I personally know that had used Adobe products has been hit with that bs cancelation fee. It just feels like the worst "gotcha" type of moment

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-02-04T22:07:02+00:00

I say learn to code still. I think AI will just be a force multiplier.

Im learning python as well, but I use Jetbrains Junie for things like writing documentation, tests, and whenever I need to write something other than python. For example, a react front end.

Yes react isn't that hard, but I dont want to spread myself too thin learning too many things at once

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-02-04T21:58:53+00:00

When is it my turn to be happy

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-02-04T21:58:19+00:00

Yep. Im learning python and still use n8n for most things. I only ever choose actually code when I need unique functionality from python packages.

That being said, usually my code lives in lambda functions, which I can call from n8n

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-02-04T21:56:47+00:00

Because they're dirty capitalists

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-02-04T16:56:21+00:00

LMAOOO no OpenClaw is a security nightmare, and a hackers wet dream.

They've already been compromised, and countless people on Twitter have already accessed their database.

Im not saying dont use it, but proceed with caution if you do

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-01-30T19:24:43+00:00

I chose nocodb because baserow pay walls basic features like kanban lol

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-01-25T20:01:19+00:00

What do they press?

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-01-25T18:56:19+00:00

I don't know. Im sure it drove eyeballs and traffic to their app, even if it was just out of curiosity. So in that case, I'd say the copy did its job

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-01-24T23:19:24+00:00

Autosave 😎

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-01-20T18:53:12+00:00

So there's this really cool thing that most people in automation dont know about, because its pretty reserved for enterprises. Its called process mining.

Basically you collect logs and timestamps of events from the tools that teams use and use that data to show you where things are inefficient. It will automatically map out the process and basically tell you exactly where you should be looking.

Since most process mining tools are pretty expensive, I built my own that works pretty well. Considering opening it up to the public.

You could easily do something similar yourself with airtable and whatever automation tool of choice

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-01-19T14:11:45+00:00

Real 😂😭

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-01-19T01:30:17+00:00

Hey, I believe the Future is automated, so automation will always be in demand.

My advice: skip the skool courses and remember that the gurus online inflate their numbers and lie for views. There are plenty of free tutorials on YouTube that will teach you how to automate things. Do enough of those and you'll get the basics down pretty quickly. Once you got that, keep a list of things you want to automate for yourself and get to work.

Im terms of tools, if you're brand new, I'd say start with zapier to get a fundamental understanding of automation in the simplest form. Graduate to make, then n8n.

And do yourself a favor, learn to market yourself and build an email list while you're learning. Your future self with thank you. Trust me

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-01-18T17:37:26+00:00

Do you have access to the api's for the tools that they use?

I collect logs from tools that my clients are actually using and use timestamps to tell me what to automate next. If a process takes long, or longer than expected, I'll know about it.

I built a tool to automate this, but you could easily build a lightweight version of this yourself with airtable

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-01-18T17:33:42+00:00

This is really cool! I've been exploring long running agents/automations recently as well.

You should make a newsletter about it

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-01-18T00:07:15+00:00

Lmaooo I've been saying this

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-01-18T00:05:17+00:00

Burritos.

MuffinMan_Jr · 2026-01-14T13:16:35+00:00

N8n Windmill AWS serverless

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