What Manual Workflow Do You Hate the Most? - Looking for feedbacks š
One pattern I keep noticing while talking to founders:
Most of the time weāre not blocked by āhard problemsā.
Weāre blocked by repetitive operational work.
The kind of tasks that quietly eat 2ā3 hours every week.
Things like:
ā¢ researching potential customers
ā¢ collecting data from different tools
ā¢ organizing user feedback
ā¢ updating dashboards or spreadsheets
ā¢ summarizing docs and reports
ā¢ preparing weekly updates for the team
ā¢ posting updates across multiple platforms
Individually they look small.
But together they become founder busywork.
Iām currently building Sendlume, an AI workflow tool designed to automate these kinds of tasks.
Instead of building features in isolation, I want to learn directly from founders.
What workflow would you automate first if you could?
You can share it here : sendlume.com/request
If multiple founders face the same problem, Iāll prioritize building it into the MVP.
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Good question to be asking. The one I see most with owner-operators is re-keying the same job info across three tools, quote here, schedule there, invoice somewhere else. None of it is hard, it just quietly eats an afternoon a week and nobody notices until you add it up. If you want raw examples I have a pile of them from service businesses, happy to share.
One thing Iāve noticed with these workflows:
the hardest part isnāt always the task itself ā itās deciding what actually matters from all the inputs.
Curious ā when you talk to founders, do they struggle more with:
or
Feels like those are very different problems to solve.
Evaluating candidates when you're doing your own hiring.
That worklow gets messy fast. Different questions, inconsistent notes, no real way to compare people, and then you end up making decisions with way more gut feel than you want to admin.
It looks like a small operational task on the surface, but the cost of doing it badly can stick around for months after the hire
As a programmer, my answer is: all of it. Ideally I'd automate my entire job and just watch the bots work while I sip coffee but until then, the one that hurts most is manually cross-posting updates across platforms. Joining the waitlist now!
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One thing that always surprised me building products is how much time gets eaten up by āsmallā operational tasks. None of them feel big enough to automate individually, but together they end up taking a lot of mental energy. For me, organizing customer feedback from different places (email, reviews, support tickets, etc.) has always been more time-consuming than expected.
Got it, we'll keep that in mind!
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