Anonymous workflow pain, ranked.
Use recurring themes and weekly hours lost to decide which repetitive workflow deserves a discovery call, a prototype, or a wedge product this week.
22h
captured weekly pain across published stories
3
active workflow themes builders can prioritize
Drop an anonymous workflow rant
Strip company names, keep the messy details, and quantify the weekly pain so builders can validate a real automation wedge.
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Recurring themes
The highest-signal pain themes rise to the top based on volume and total time lost.
reconciliation automation
1 stories · 9h avg weekly loss
9h
total pain
access provisioning
1 stories · 7h avg weekly loss
7h
total pain
cross-tool sync gaps
1 stories · 6h avg weekly loss
6h
total pain
DATABASE_URL missing, so the dashboard is running on curated demo stories.
Invoice reconciliation still lives in five spreadsheets
Every Friday I compare invoices from billing, ERP exports, and a spreadsheet a former controller made in 2022. One mismatch turns into 30 Slack pings.
Automation clue
Copy invoice IDs between the ERP, Stripe exports, and our shared close workbook to figure out what changed.
One resolved ticket still means four manual updates
Closing a support ticket means updating CRM notes, billing status, a renewal tracker, and a QA doc. Missing one breaks reporting for revops.
Automation clue
Re-enter the same ticket summary in Zendesk, Salesforce, a Google Sheet, and a Notion page after every escalation.
New hire onboarding still needs 12 follow-ups
HR starts in one system, IT owns another, and finance has a spreadsheet with software approvals. We track the gaps manually and hope nobody misses payroll access.
Automation clue
Send access requests to app owners, copy progress into a tracker, and chase each missing approval across email and Slack.