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I used to start my mornings in a spreadsheet.
Copy a name.
Paste into the CRM.
Send a Slack message.
Update another sheet.
Repeat.
By 11am I was tired and the real work had not even started.
One week I sat down and said enough.
I built a simple flow.
New lead comes in.
CRM updates itself.
My team gets the ping.
I get my morning back.
The funny part?
Clients think I am “always on top of things.”
Nah.
I just stopped doing robot work like a robot.
If you are still moving the same data between 4 apps by hand, you are not lazy.
You are just overdue for a system.
I help businesses set this up with Zapier, n8n, Make, and CRM tools.
Comment “FLOW” if you want me to show you what your version could look like.
Insanely awesome💯
This is impressive 😍
Beautiful
Absolutely! The biggest productivity gains often come from eliminating repetitive tasks, not working longer hours. Even a simple automation can save hours every week.
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Crenaly: a booking SaaS I designed and built end-to-end for appointment-based businesses in France: salons, barbers, beauty and wellness.
The core idea: when a client cancels, the freed slot is automatically offered to clients who asked for an earlier time. The first to accept gets it, their appointment moves in place, and the slot they leave is offered next. No double booking, no manual work.
Around it, a full product:
→ Branded booking page for each business, embeddable on their own site
→ Mobile-first booking flow, no account needed
→ Agenda, client management, team roles & permissions
→ Verified reviews, analytics, Stripe billing
Product, UX/UI, frontend and backend.
Next.js · TypeScript · NestJS · PostgreSQL · Redis
Automatically offering a cancelled slot to the next client is such a practical feature for salons and barbers. Designing and building Crenaly end to end must have made those flows much tighter.
Built myself a little command center for my freelance work this week. It’s called Bench.
Contra handles the contracts and payments, but my day-to-day was scattered across Contra chats, Gmail, my calendar, Notion, and a notes app. So I pulled it all into one place:
• A dashboard showing what needs me today: unread messages, overdue tasks, past-due invoices, leads that have gone quiet
• Each project gets its own page with scope, deliveries, tasks, links, and the full message thread from Contra and email
• A pipeline for leads, including a “Ghosted” column, because we’ve all been there
• A time tracker for the hourly stuff
• It syncs with my Contra projects and invoices every morning
Curious how other freelancers here keep track of everything. Spreadsheets? Notion? Pure chaos?
Hey, Mr. @Chris Luniewicz This is honestly impressive! I'm also curious to know what tech stack you used to build 👍
Quote Follow-Up Automation for HVAC & Plumbing
Most home-service quotes don’t get rejected, they just go quiet. I built a system that follows up on them automatically.
What it does
Takes each quote through a simple form
Schedules up to 8 timed texts over 30 days
Stops instantly on a reply, a STOP, or a booked/lost update
Uses AI to draft replies to objections, with a human approving every one
Built with safety first
No duplicate texts, even when processes overlap
Only contractor-approved wording is sent
Texts go out only during local business hours
Opt-outs are honored immediately
Stack: n8n, Postgres, Groq, Docker, Twilio
Status: built and tested end to end, ready to pilot.
I build automation systems like this for service businesses. Message me if you’d like one for yours😊 .
