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I'm struggling with thinking about operations decisions: "mark this account as fraud" or "email customer if they have an item in their cart for >3 days". Decisions that define the …

We looked into these, but they honestly seemed like a pain to integrate + getting ops to learn a new DSL would need org changes I can't really influence. Have you used these? Would…

Thanks! This feels like a Zapier/IFTT? What I've found with those tools is that they help me set up the connections, but I often find myself still unable to pass the "data" respons…

Thanks for sharing your story. Oh man, that sucks! Yeah, it's funny there's things I don't want to build in the first place. And then the moment you build them, you are responsible…

Makes sense. Thanks for the tip on linking Excel!

Wish you'd made this two months ago - had to build a lot of this from scratch at my startup and would've totally used something like this! I tried looking on the internet, and foun…

Oh interesting, will look into that! Excel works for one-offs, but with repeated queries, or if they're exploring data that they don't know exactly how they'd use, or if they want …

Makes sense, that's what I've seen other folks do. I'm curious if you've seen them ask for more features over time, more actions, ability to manage the rules they write - and wheth…

I work with operations teams that need to frequently update very simple business logic (think SQL). Other engineers who work with operations teams (customer success, fraud/risk, co…

something I wish existed. Operations teams have business context, but no direct control over even simple workflows. Engineers are overwhelmed updating rules logic, there’s no visib…

This. Nothing wrong with looking at the bright side, but like with everything, there’s a balance. When confiding in Pollyanna friends, you walk away either feeling not understood, …

The most important consideration here is whether you want to take VC funding at all, or bootstrap as much as possible. There are many fine businesses that fall into the VC game, ha…

Please tell me you’re at least if donating the $ to charity!