I wanted to leave feedback as a new user who failed to onboard and who is going to roll their own for now. The vision of Lindy is amazing. I'm 22 years as a software engineer and the last 5 years as an entrepreneur and freelancer. I attempted to make a Lindy to scrape a directory and put those orgs into my CapsuleCRM and then search for certain job titles and put those people in the CRM. The bot's testing the idea and building out the workflow worked flawlessly and was very impressive. I could see it's computer use and I took over to sign into my CRM, Google, etc. The pipeline it built was "Receive Message" -> Perplexity Search -> Computer Use -> Google Sheets. It asked me to "Test". This is where the wheels fell off. The test screen often doesn't load and is left with a spinner in the very top right. When it does load and I send the message it is expecting, a spinner on "Receive Message" never stops spinning. Sometimes I get "Something went wrong" toast messages. I used the bot to troubleshoot and it was very confident each time that it knew what was going on. It did not. It slowly whittled the automation down to two nodes - "Receive Message" and "Send Message". This again does not work and is stuck in a spinner. I assume that platform is under a lot of load, so I tested 12 hours later in the middle of the night. Nope, same. I created a new Lindy that is very simple - scape this site and do computer use to enter orgs into my CRM. It can't keep track of two tabs and keeps closing and opening them. Good news is that the "Test" button works on this Lindy. I know computer use just shipped, but this platform seems very buggy. I'd say under-promise and overdeliver instead of they way things are being messaged right now. I looked at alternatives, and I'd rather roll my own than have the learning curve and lock-in of n8n. My current plan: I will roll my own with A) Claude code and MCPs and also B) LangChain and see if which of the two looks best to automate my workflow. I will probably monitor https://community.lindy.ai/x/support and https://community.lindy.ai/x/bug-reports to evaluate that quality piece for returning to this platform. Congrats to the team for an amazing vision and looking forward to using Lindy or similar down the road. My Lindy's for support reference:
