"Clay is overrated."

Q: Is there a tool you decided to drop in the last couple of months?

So I'm very excited about dropping Clay. I think Clay is overrated. It's overcomplicated. The automation component, it's very hard to scale. Working across the different sheets is very overcomplicated. And so we use GitHub Actions. I am a big fan of N8n, and the more that I can see any active errors, which N8n makes really easy, the more of a fan of the tool that I am.

Erdem: I've heard this from some other folks, that once Clay updated their price plan to focus more on actions, it was sort of the beginning of the downfall.

Q: Which renewal recently was the most controversial one in the team?

HubSpot - renewed under duress. Although I do like HubSpot, I think it's got its place. The renewal was 15 days away and I didn't have the time to actually do the sunset properly. So fortunately they were able to give us a three month micro renewal. Although it was expensive, it didn't make me happy to sign that.

Q: What have you been adding to your stack recently?

Ralph Loops is what I'm most excited about. So everybody's doing a lot of development and I get handed a lot of in-process projects. So Ralph Loops helps me to do a lot of away from keyboard development using Claude Code. I do use Conductor to kind of drive that simultaneously, but then Ralph Loops within that really helps to build features.

Q: Is there an AI tool you're desperate to try these days?

Obsidian is the answer you're looking for. This is a good note taking tool, essentially. But because it maintains links between notes, you can kind of see context across all projects.