Automation is a force multiplier. That’s the point.. and also the risk. If you’re building or buying content automation templates (Make/n8n), here are the 5 things I’d want true before calling it “ready”: - Small blast radius first: Start where failure is annoying, not brand-damaging (drafts, internal review queues, idea generation). - “Good enough” is defined: Not “write great content” — but constraints like: tone rules, banned claims, citation/asset source, max posts/day. - Human-in-the-loop by default: Auto-generate → queue → approve.Full auto-posting should be an optional mode, not the default. - Logs + replay: If it posts something wrong, you need to know: what input triggered it, what prompt/version ran, and what it output. - Kill switch in under 60 seconds: A single toggle to pause posting + stop downstream actions (especially if an API returns garbage). If a template nails these, it’s not just “cool” — it’s actually usable by real people. Curious: what’s the #1 failure mode you’ve seen with content automations: bad captions, wrong assets, or timing/duplicates?

Here’s what it taught me about product failure: Clarity is a myth without user stories I thought it was a chatbot The Client thought it was a recommendation engine. I thought we were all aligned. We were not. No blueprint = build whatever That gave me three versions None solved the problem. But hey, they did look cool. Collaboration without context? Chaos Meetings turned into therapy sessions. Fixing assumptions later is expensive I spent 3 weeks building. In 2 weeks, I'm tearing it down. Guess what i started with after that? Yep… user stories. Lesson? Even in AI, human stories come first. They’re not “extra documentation.” They’re the difference between building what’s needed vs what looks smart. Build the story before you build the stack.

Does anyone know of any teenage groups or communities? My friend has a son (age 12) who is making videos, and it would be great if he had a community to share/collaborate with. Any suggestions?