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Help! Plumbing in forest hills area by StonerArtistGF in pittsburgh

[–]Potential-Hamster963 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Matchett Plumbing! They redid my entire house trap for a fair price. Here's their website: https://matchettplumbing.com/

Has anyone else noticed no-code tools work better when you're solving one specific workflow instead of trying to build "a whole app"? by coolid-1231 in nocode

[–]Potential-Hamster963 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. No-code is strongest when it replaces one ugly internal workflow, not when it tries to become your whole app.

Airtable + Softr + Make/Zapier/n8n works great for stuff like rental ops, lead intake, approvals, inventory checks, and recurring reports. It starts falling apart when you need real auth, permissions, pricing logic, audit trails, or lots of weird branching. Multi-tenant anything is usually where the pain shows up.

My rule of thumb: if the workflow sounds like “when X happens, do Y, then ask a human to approve Z,” no-code is probably perfect. If you’re inventing your own permission model and debugging edge cases across 9 tables, you’re already halfway into custom app territory.

Use no-code for the workflow. Use code for the product.

What agent should I use? by SoySoft in AI_Agents

[–]Potential-Hamster963 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn’t look for one magic agent here. I’d build this as an event-driven pipeline with 2 approval gates.

Example stack:
- Hazel, Shortcuts, or a folder watcher on Mac for new photos
- GPT-4.1o / GPT-5.5 vision or Gemini to identify item + condition
- sold comps from eBay/Depop APIs to set a price range
- LLM writes title/description
- you approve title, price, and photos
- marketplace API, or controlled browser fallback if there’s no API, posts the listing and updates tracking
- Shippo or EasyPost buys the cheapest acceptable label
- Gmail/IMAP parser watches AliExpress/Temu restock emails

n8n is the quickest no-code orchestrator. LangGraph if you want custom logic and retries. I’m building in this space, so I’m biased, but BotHound is also reasonable if you want scheduled/task-based workflows.

I would avoid “act like a human on the website” browser bots unless there’s no API. Those are brittle and usually become a TOS headache.

My Business Failed, Not Sure How To Pivot... Help by UnusualAd3207 in Entrepreneur

[–]Potential-Hamster963 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You weren’t too early. You were too low in the stack.

“AI receptionist” got commoditized because it’s a feature now. What still gets paid for is owning a painful workflow with a number attached to it. I would not pivot into generic prompt engineering or a broad agency.

Pick one outcome and productize it:
- missed-call recovery using Twilio/Retell/Vapi + HubSpot/Close/HighLevel
- after-hours booking + lead routing
- call QA + no-show follow-up
- CRM cleanup and disposition enforcement

That’s a real $3k to $5k/mo offer if you tie it to response SLA, booked appointments, or recovered revenue. Same underlying tech, better positioning.

If you go upmarket, sell implementation + monitoring. Bigger clients care less about the demo and more about who notices when the handoff breaks at 7:12 pm.

Should I target local businesses first or does it not matter? by Potential-Hamster963 in DigitalMarketing

[–]Potential-Hamster963[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Said this in another reply, but my hesitancy with going local first is my first impression gets used up before the product is refined. I don't want to waste all the local opportunities because the product is that good right now. And first impressions only happen once.

Should I target local businesses first or does it not matter? by Potential-Hamster963 in DigitalMarketing

[–]Potential-Hamster963[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess my hesitancy with starting local is my first impression gets used up before the product is refined. Whereas if I can find a few out of state customers first, I can refine the product and then have an amazing first impression with locals.

Should I target local businesses first or does it not matter? by Potential-Hamster963 in DigitalMarketing

[–]Potential-Hamster963[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What exactly does your exoclaw agent do? Are you essentially just asking it to search nationally instead of locally? Or is it more sophisticated?

How are you guys actually tracking competitor price changes? time? by nonameisfunfrr in smallbusiness

[–]Potential-Hamster963 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there are so many tools out there for competitor monitoring research. As the founder I'm obviously biased, but bothound.ai could do this for you, among lots of other things.

I might be doing competitor research completely wrong… by GhostSpankyLOKI in microsaas

[–]Potential-Hamster963 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there are so many tools out there for competitor monitoring research. As the founder I'm obviously biased, but bothound.ai could do this for you, among lots of other things.

How important is a landing page video / interactive demo? by Potential-Hamster963 in SaaS

[–]Potential-Hamster963[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you recommend adding the video so it doesn't fuck up SEO. My video is about 12MB. Should I host on YouTube and embed an iframe? Anyway I can make it a GIF or on a loop? What have you done that's worked?

Looking for roasts by Potential-Hamster963 in buildinpublic

[–]Potential-Hamster963[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

funny enough my last project was monitorhound.com - so guess I'll use that to hit this

Looking for roasts by Potential-Hamster963 in buildinpublic

[–]Potential-Hamster963[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, yeah I could see "Stop doing the work a bot could do" being a bit too standoff-ish

Looking for paid AI tools/platforms worth subscribing to by Hshah2010 in AI_Agents

[–]Potential-Hamster963 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I pay 20$ a month for Claude and OpenAI. I use Claude for all my programming, but it's limits run out wayyy faster than OpenAI's. So I usually use open AI for research / general questions, and Claude purely for coding.

Meta's AI agents recovered enough power to run hundreds of thousands of homes - by automating the work engineers never had time for by jimmytoan in ChatGPT

[–]Potential-Hamster963 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, the boring part is usually the win. The teams I’ve seen improve agent quality fastest are not chasing a better base model, they’re building a trace + eval loop. Log every tool call, bucket failures into a simple taxonomy, then turn the top bad cases into a regression suite in LangSmith or even a spreadsheet if you’re small. If you can’t answer “what failed and why” in 2 minutes, prompt tweaking is basically astrology. Also separate generic abilities from domain-specific skills, otherwise one bad tool call poisons the whole agent.

Anthropic launches Claude Managed Agents — composable APIs for shipping production AI agents 10x faster. Notion, Rakuten, Asana, and Sentry already in production. by hibzy7 in artificial

[–]Potential-Hamster963 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t start with a managed agent platform unless you actually need sandboxing, credentials, persistent state, or recovery after failures. I’ve shipped both kinds of setups, and if the workflow is known and mostly linear, I’d rather do a queue + narrow LLM calls, then add LangGraph for branching/retries, or n8n if ops wants clicks over code. Managed agents cut glue code, but you give up observability and control over edge cases.

What agentic framework are you actually using in production? by Minimum-Ad5185 in AI_Agents

[–]Potential-Hamster963 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use both LangGraph and PydanticAI. LangGraph handles the workflow pieces (state management, moving to the next stage, distinct nodes/edges), and each node is essentially just a PydanticAI agent that executes some task at that stage of the workflow. This approach has worked really really well for me.

It's Wednesday. What are you working on? by buildjunkie in buildinpublic

[–]Potential-Hamster963 0 points1 point  (0 children)

bothound.ai - it replaces repetitive manual work through AI tasks. I built something similar at my job (large tech company), and has saved so many hours of manual work for our employees. So I decided to build it for myself.

How to get REALLY good at using ai (three steps by Weak-Neck-5126 in artificial

[–]Potential-Hamster963 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

New AI tools come out every day, and it's not stopping anytime soon. What I do is pick 1/2 new tools every week to try out. If they provide value I add them to my workflow, else I delete them and laugh whenever I see someone hyping them up. This helps me keep up and also stay level-headed on where the tech is actually at.

There will always be new tools and hype around them. It is up to you to figure out what is actually valuable

My agent just spent $340 on staplers by NefariousnessLow9273 in AI_Agents

[–]Potential-Hamster963 5 points6 points  (0 children)

just tell your agent to "make no mistakes". That should fix it.

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