MESA

The "plain English" input is the easy part. What does the debugging UX look like when the automation breaks at 2am during a flash sale?

As a CS manager, it's really easy to let the most dramatic support ticket of the week convince you it's the most important one. I've been guilty of it. I use MESA to automatically deliver weekly trend reports to my inbox every Friday. I now get the data that tells me what's actually happening, not just what gave the team an adrenaline spike on Tuesday, and I don't have to read each ticket manually to be sure my gut is right. This gets us better documentation, smarter product feedback, and week-over-week visibility into what's still a problem and what we actually fixed.

I've been using MESA's integrations with Help Scout and Asana to track and identify trends based on Help Scout tags, which saves a ton of time compared to Help Scout's native tracking and tag filtering. It's a lot easier to update documentation knowing I have all of the relevant conversations streamlined to my Asana projects 🙌

I've been using MESA to kick off AI-drafted blog outlines and video scripts the moment a task changes status in Asana, so I don't have to context-switch into a doc and stare at a blank page mid-sprint. Pretty much cured my 'okay where do I even start' spiral.

Hey Product Hunt 👋I’m Darryl, one of the developers working on MESA.A lot of my work has been focused on the technical side of automation: building integrations, handling edge cases, and making workflows reliable enough that merchants can actually trust them in production. One thing I’ve realized working on MESA is that most automation problems are not actually “hard” problems. They’re usually a bunch of annoying small problems stacked together:APIs with weird limitationsData formatting issuesInventory syncing across platformsWebhooks that fail silentlySystems that were never designed to talk to each otherThat’s the stuff we spend a lot of time solving behind the scenes, so merchants do not have to.One thing I’m especially excited about is Yedric, our AI workflow assistant. Instead of spending hours wiring together triggers, filters, and mappings, you can describe what you want in plain English and get a working workflow surprisingly fast.As someone who has worked on automation tooling for years, it’s honestly pretty cool seeing non-technical users build workflows that previously would have required developer help.If anyone has technical questions about integrations, APIs, Shopify automation, inventory syncing, AI workflows, or weird edge cases, feel free to ask. 🙂

'Sup Product Hunters! 👋I’m Shannon, Launch Manager at MESA. I’ve had the chance to help a lot of merchants get started with automation, and one of my favorite things to share lately is how to use our AI assistant, Yedric, to create reports and insights that are delivered to your email daily, weekly, or whatever your jam is.And once you're in, we're right there with you. From a 30-minute screenshare session with me, to chat and email support (and our glorious yeti), we’ll help you get automating quickly. Got questions about getting started? Feel free to drop them here! 

Congrats on the launch @itsdarrylnorris! Quick question on the AI builder. When it generates a workflow from a plain-English description, what does editing look like after that? Like if it gets 80% right but the conditions or logic need tweaking, are you back to re-prompting and hoping it lands, or do you get a visual editor where you can go in and adjust individual steps, conditions, filters etc? That's usually where AI-generated anything feels super limiting! The first pass is impressive but then you need fine control and you're stuck talking to the AI in circles. Also curious how you think about the line between MESA and Shopify Flow, which keeps getting better and is free out of the box.

does the inventory sync work in real-time across etsy and shopify? we’ve been having a lot of overselling issues lately during sales and our current setup just can't keep up with the api limits. @aaroneous

Solo founder here — I keep hitting walls where I need 'real' workflow tooling and end up hacking it together. Does this handle non-Shopify webhooks too, or strictly within their ecosystem? Curious if I could use it for our food data pipelines.

The human approval step is a smart touch. Do you think merchants will lean more toward full autopilot or prefer keeping that manual checkpoint? Congratulations!

What's up Product Hunt 👋 I'm Aaron, one of the founders at MESAQuick question:What's one thing your Shopify store should be doing automatically... but isn't?For most merchants I've talked to, the list is long:Notify the warehouse differently for priority / VIP / wholesale ordersPush orders, customers, and products to Google Sheets (and not break)Trigger a personalized follow-up when someone buys a specific productFix messy data (tags, collections, metafields) automaticallyCancel orders going to PO boxesKeep inventory in sync across systems without oversellingThe ideas aren't the problem.Building them is.So folks end up choosing between two not-great options:❌ Hire a developer (slow, expensive, now every change is a ticket)❌ Wrestle with a generic automation tool (powerful if you enjoy building software instead of running a store)We built MESA because this shouldn't be hard.You just describe what your store needs:"When orders over $500 come in, notify my team on Slack, tag the customer VIP, and add them to a Klaviyo flow."MESA figures out the logic, connects your apps, and builds it for you.No digging through developer docs. No difficult data mapping. No "why isn't my trigger firing?"A few things I'm especially excited about:Just describe what you need and get a working automation in minutesWorks across your stack (Recharge, Etsy, Google, ShipStation, Odoo, 100+ more)Add human approval when you don't want full autopilotIf you run a Shopify store and have a backlog of "we should figure this out someday..." this is for you.🔗 https://www.getmesa.com (use code PHBASIC3 for 3 months free)We'll be hanging out here all day!Curious: what's one thing you've wanted to automate but felt too annoying to set up?