Freelancers, quick poll: how do you price automation work?
A) Hourly
B) Fixed price per project
C) Monthly retainer
I switched away from hourly for automation, and here's why. If I build a workflow that saves a client 20 hours a week, billing for the 6 hours it took me makes no...
Built an AI system that reads supplier invoices and posts them straight into a dealer management system. No one retypes anything anymore.
The problem: a group of car dealerships was getting hundreds of supplier invoices by email and WhatsApp photos, and staff were keying every...
Unpopular opinion: the hardest part of web scraping in 2026 isn't getting past anti-bot walls. It's knowing when your data is quietly wrong.
A scraper that crashes is easy to fix because you notice. The dangerous one keeps running after a site changes its layout, filling your...
Hot take: most "AI agents" being sold right now are just a prompt with a for-loop.
That's not a bad thing. But calling it an agent sets the wrong expectations.
What actually makes AI useful in a business:
• It does one boring job really well (not 20 jobs badly)
• It knows when...
Built a data pipeline that tracks 2.4M+ hotel records across major US brands without duplicate rows or silent failures.
The problem: each brand exposes availability, rates, and property details differently, and pages change or rate-limit mid-run. A naive scraper either misses...
