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Your nightly sync didn't update the record. It quietly erased half of it.
An ops agent fills in a contact's 'phone' and 'lifecyclestage' by hand in HubSpot. The next sync runs, and both come back blank. Nobody touched them upstream. The integration did.
The cause is in how the update payload gets built. The sync maps the full source record onto the HubSpot object and sends every field, including the ones that are empty at the source. HubSpot's PATCH only changes the properties you include, and a property is cleared by sending an empty string. So "phone": "" doesn't mean "leave it," it means "wipe it." Every blank source field overwrites whatever a human typed on the HubSpot side. HubSpot is doing exactly what its docs say. The mapping is the bug.
The fix is to send only the fields you actually have a value for and intend to own. Strip any key whose source value is null, undefined, or "" before the request goes out. If a blank in the source genuinely means "clear this," make that an explicit, per-field decision on an allowlist, not a side effect of how your mapping serializes empties.
The principle: an update should carry only the fields it means to change. "I have no value for this" and "set this to empty" are two different operations, and a sync that treats them as one loses data without ever throwing an error. Most silent data loss isn't a failed write. It's a clean write of the wrong thing.
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Most padel clubs still run bookings on a WhatsApp group and a notebook.
Built Volea to fix that: a dashboard where club owners add players, book courts, and onboard their club in minutes — no app for the player, no spreadsheet for the owner.
Designed and built solo end to end (UI, Next.js, Supabase). This is the dashboard in motion. volea.io
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Meet PantryPilot 🌿
Snap a photo of your grocery receipt, take a picture inside your fridge, or just say what you bought, and PantryPilot instantly turns it into a live pantry.
Then it handles the part we always forget: it tracks every item, warns you the moment something's about to spoil, and suggests recipes that use those items first so the food you paid for actually gets eaten, not thrown out.
1) The problem:
The average American family throws away $1,500 of food every single year. Across the country, 30–40% of the food we produce is never eaten, and most of that waste doesn't occur on farms or in restaurants. It happens at home.
It's the spinach that wilted in the back of the fridge. The chicken that slipped past its date. The leftovers nobody remembered. We don't waste food on purpose; we just lose track of what we have and when it needs to be used.
That forgotten food costs us money every week, and quietly adds up to one of the biggest sources of household waste there is.
2) The Solution:
It starts the moment you get home. Snap your receipt, photograph your fridge, or just say what you bought, and AI builds your pantry for you, with zero manual typing.
📸 Every item tracked, with a freshness countdown
⏳ It warns you what's about to spoil — before it's too late
🍳 It suggests recipes that use those items first, so nothing goes to waste
💸 A simple dashboard shows exactly how much money you've rescued.
3) How it was built — entirely in Figma Make:
PantryPilot wasn't designed first and coded later. It was designed and built as a working app right inside Figma Make, through pure iterative prompting.
52 versions and 13K AI credits later, it had grown from a single screen into a complete, functional product, and Make nailed the hardest part: the design. Every screen came out clean, warm, and intuitive, exactly the editorial feel we were after, with barely any manual tweaking.
Then we pushed Make past design into a real product:
🔐 Supabase handles authentication and a private, per-user database (with row-level security) so every pantry is real, secure, and persistent.
🤖 Google's Gemini powers the AI that reads receipts and fridge photos to build your pantry and generates recipes around what's about to spoil.
https://pantry-pilot.figma.site/ (Project Live Link)
https://www.figma.com/make/bm806ML6fH3jlzVwhx1sVO/PantryPilot?t=uln66mVIM3SnUosM-1 (Figma Make File)
https://www.figma.com/community/file/1649686657162343709 (Public link in Figma Community)
https://x.com/FaisalHanif333/status/2067863486152200367 (X Post)
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7473629231638319107/ (Linkedin Post)
https://streamable.com/cj1rg2 (detailed walkthrough of features of pantry App)
the earlier upload was the half video by mistake. Here's the complete PantryPilot demo, please check this one out 🌿
Half of food waste doesn't happen in factories. It happens when a tomato or a packet of milk quietly dies at the back of the fridge.
Bought → Forgot→ Found → Threw
Thats when we built FreshLoop. It helps households track, consume, and share food smarter, reducing waste while creating stronger local communities.
app preview link - https://canon-tone-63612296.figma.site/
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