Automation & no-code: 10 threads on the same pain

Automation & no-code

10 needs clustered under "Automation & no-code" — scattered threads about the same pain, side by side, so you can compare angles.

10 opportunities

n8n Community 2026-08-11

The silent failure: your workflow goes green and does nothing

The workflow runs green, no errors, execution shows — and nothing actually happened. I've debugged a dozen of these.

observabilityalerting

27 replies

n8n Community 2020-08-31

153 replies asking for workflow folders — automation assets need organising

Would it be possible to arrange workflows per folder in order to improve the UI experience?

asset managementteams

153 replies

n8n Community 2026-06-09

Audit logging for workflows that call MCP tools is missing

It doesn't show what the agent asked the tool to do, or what it got back. That's a gap.

agent auditcompliance

9 replies

Stack Exchange 2025-08-19

Tesseract and PaddleOCR aren't accurate enough: want a modern open-source OCR

Is there a modern open-source OCR library more accurate than Tesseract or PaddlePaddle? We tried both — too inaccurate for automated software testing.

ocrtest automation

3 upvotes

n8n Community 2025-09-23

There is a Calendly-to-n8n trigger, but no n8n-to-Calendly scheduling

The appointment scheduling is starting in n8n and needs to integrate with Calendly's existing calendar.

schedulingintegration

8 replies

Bubble Forum 2022-09-27

Sometimes I wish there was some code — the no-code ceiling

Keep the UI, but be able to drop into code mode… complex apps get difficult to manage with logic all over the place.

escape hatchno-code limits

12 replies

Stack Exchange 2025-04-06

Read Google Play books in your language via automatic translation

Is it possible, via some supported mechanism, to apply automated translation to Google Play books — so people can read any book in their native language?

ebooksmachine translation

1 upvotes

Bubble Forum 2023-08-29

Can you annotate workflows? Re-familiarising costs hours

How easy it is to lose track of the logic in complex workflows… the time to re-familiarize with the steps is huge.

docshandover

13 replies

Stack Exchange 2025-02-20

Reconstruct your own access/edit history across all Google Docs

Is there a tool to reconstruct my personal access/edit history across all Google docs I can reach — like 'opened doc X at Feb 10 10:00, edited...'

google docsworkflow

1 upvotes

Obsidian Forum 2020-06-20

Users write their own scripts to auto-create backlinks from note titles

I put together a Python script to auto-create forward links in clipboard text based on the note titles in your vault.

backlinksautomation

44 replies

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