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👋 I am new to Contra and I did my first post without realizing I hadn't even introduced myself!
Hey! I am Abuzar.
I build AI agents, automations and full web apps for small businesses and freelancers:
🤖 Agents that reply to new leads and follow up so nobody goes cold
💬 Chatbots that answer customers using your own documents
🔗 Connections between your apps, so data moves on its own instead of through copy-paste
💻 Custom web apps and dashboards, from idea to launch, when off-the-shelf tools just dont fit
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For 3.5 years I built payment systems at a fintech company, where my whole job was making sure money never disappeared.
Now I make busywork disappear instead 😄
Off the keyboard, you will find me watching cricket or on a long motorcycle ride somewhere outside Lahore 🏏🏍️
I've noticed this community is full of amazing designers, editors and creatives, and I'm the guy who loves the techy plumbing behind the scenes. So I'm curious 👇
What's the most annoying non-creative part of your freelance week? Invoicing, client onboarding, chasing feedback, organising files?
Tell me in the comments. I'll reply to each one with an idea for how to automate it 🤝
Spent way too long on the small stuff in these widgets for a SaaS product I’m designing.
Things like keeping numbers aligned when values update, labels that truncate cleanly, and charts that still read well with only a couple of data points.
Nobody notices when it’s right. Everyone feels it when it’s wrong.
Automated Review Requests for Local Service Businesses
The Problem
Google reviews help local businesses get found, and every HVAC company, salon, cleaner and contractor knows it. Most of them ask for reviews inconsistently. The reason isn’t that they don’t care. Asking every customer, right after every job, depends on someone remembering at the exact moment the business is busiest. Happy customers never get asked, and the review count grows slower than it should.
The Solution
I built an n8n system that sends the review request automatically, once, at the right time, and tracks what happens next. Nobody gets asked twice and nobody gets forgotten.
How the System Works
1. Checks every 15 minutes. The workflow reads a Google Sheet that lists each job and what has already been sent. The sheet is the system’s memory, so nothing depends on timers that can fire twice.
2. Sends the request. Two hours after a job is marked complete, the customer gets an email with a review link.
3. Tracks the click. The link goes through a tracking step that records “clicked” in the sheet, then sends the customer to Google.
4. Sends one follow-up. If there’s no click after three days, one reminder goes out. Customers who clicked or opted out are skipped.
5. Alerts me on errors. A separate error workflow emails me if any step fails.
Why this design: every step re-checks the sheet before sending, so the system can’t double-send and a customer who already responded is never contacted again.
Tools: n8n, Gmail, Google Sheets
I'd test the tracking link with email security scanners before using clicks to suppress reminders. How do you distinguish an automated link check from a customer opening the review page?