Diagrams of small cloud systems.
Design walkthroughs of automations, DevOps, and infrastructure — each post centered on a diagram. Open to builds, collabs, and design reviews. By Allan Niñal.
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Upsell recommender
Just after an order, the customer gets one tasteful nudge — the add-on that actually goes with what they bought — with a one-tap link to add it, and nothing more if they're not interested.
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Warranty registration handler
A customer scans the code on their new product, and moments later the warranty is registered, the expiry is on the calendar, and a reminder is set for before it lapses — no paper card, no spreadsheet.
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Booking deposit collector
A booking comes in and the customer gets a deposit link that holds their slot — pay and it's confirmed, ignore it and the slot quietly frees up, so no-shows stop costing the business its calendar.
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Referral tracker
Every happy customer gets their own referral link, and when a friend they sent actually buys, both sides get credited automatically — with the self-referrals and dupes quietly filtered out.
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Review request sender
A job wraps up, and a day later the customer gets one warm, personal note asking for a review — but only if they seem happy; anyone unhappy is quietly routed to private feedback instead.
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Back-in-stock notifier
A sold-out item comes back and the customers who asked to be told get one text — in the order they waited, with a short window to buy before it sells out again.
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Missed-call text-back
A missed call turns into an instant friendly text back — matched to the caller, with a booking link, and escalated if no one replies.
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Chargeback responder
Assembles the evidence packet for a payment dispute the moment one lands — order, delivery proof, and customer comms — and files before the deadline.
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Delivery route planner
Turns the day’s orders into an optimized driver route — fewest miles, sensible stop order, a manifest for the driver and live ETAs for customers.
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Return and RMA handler
Runs the whole returns desk — issues an RMA, prints the label, tracks the parcel back, and proposes refund or replacement with the reason attached.
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Stock count reconciler
Reconciles a physical stock count against the system of record, flags every variance with a likely cause, and queues the adjustments for sign-off.
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Recurring invoice generator
Generates and sends scheduled invoices from contracts and retainers — proration, tax, and a clean hand-off to the chaser when one goes overdue.
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Job status notifier
Keeps a service customer in the loop as their job moves stage to stage — “received → in progress → ready” — with photos and an honest ETA.
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Product image cleaner
Turns a phone snapshot of a product into catalog-ready images — background removed, cropped per channel, watermarked, in seconds.
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Lead enricher
Turns a raw inbound lead into a clean, deduped, enriched record before it ever reaches the CRM — and quietly drops the junk.
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Gift card ledger
Issues, redeems, and expires gift cards and store credit — accurate balances, atomic redemptions, and fraud caps that stop abuse.
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Dunning recovery
Recovers failed subscription payments — a smart retry schedule, branded dunning emails, and access that pauses and restores itself.
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Order status responder
Answers “where’s my order?” the moment it’s asked — matches the customer to their order, pulls live tracking, replies with an ETA, and escalates the stuck ones.
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Supplier bill matcher
A serverless matcher that reads every supplier bill as it arrives, finds the matching purchase order and goods-received note, and checks them line by line —
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Weekly report builder
A serverless builder that gathers a small business’s own numbers —
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Content moderator
A serverless moderator that keeps a community page or comment section clean without a full-time moderator.
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Shift scheduler
A serverless scheduler that takes the headache out of staff rotas for a small team.
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Menu sync
A serverless system that keeps a restaurant’s menu and prices the same everywhere.
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Tax doc collector
A serverless system that takes the pain out of tax season for an accountant or bookkeeper.
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Quote follow-up
A serverless system that makes sure a sent quote never goes cold.
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Social inbox unifier
A serverless system that pulls every Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp DM into one shared queue so nothing is missed.
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Renewal negotiator
A serverless helper that keeps customers at renewal time.
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Feedback collector
A serverless system that asks every customer how it went, at the right moment after a visit or purchase, with one simple question.
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Form intake router
A serverless router that catches every form your website posts —
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Backup sentinel
A serverless watcher that makes sure your backups actually worked —
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Transcription archive
A serverless archive that keeps every call and meeting recording your business makes, turns each one into text, files it by date, people, and topic, and lets you ask a plain-language question —
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Photo tagger
A serverless tagger that saves an online shop hours of typing.
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Waitlist manager
A serverless system that turns no-shows and cancellations into filled slots.
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Loyalty tracker
A serverless points program for a small shop.
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Event RSVP manager
A serverless manager that runs the guest list for a small event.
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Proposal generator
A serverless generator that turns a short brief —
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Sentiment monitor
A serverless monitor that watches the mentions you point it at —
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Translation relay
A serverless relay that lets a small team serve customers in any language.
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Ticket router
A serverless router that reads each new support ticket, works out the topic and how urgent it is, tags it, and routes it to the right team or person —
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Vendor onboarder
A serverless onboarder that gets a new supplier set up cleanly.
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Expense approver
A serverless system that takes each staff expense claim and its receipt, reads the receipt, checks the claim against your written expense policy, auto-clears the small in-policy ones for a manager’s one-tap confirm, and sends anything over a limit or out of policy to the right person with the reason.
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Staff policy answerer
A serverless assistant that answers staff questions about company policy from your own handbook, in chat.
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Churn predictor
A serverless predictor that spots customers who are quietly drifting away before they leave.
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Compliance tracker
A serverless tracker that keeps a small business on top of its recurring compliance tasks —
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Content repurposer
A serverless system that turns one long piece —
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Cart recovery
A serverless system that wins back online shoppers who added items but didn’t check out.
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Price monitor
A serverless monitor that keeps an eye on competitor prices so you don’t have to.
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Applicant screener
A serverless screener that helps a small team handle a flood of job applications fairly.
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Meeting notetaker
A serverless notetaker that turns a meeting recording into useful notes.
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Deadline reminder
A serverless reminder that keeps a simple calendar of every recurring obligation your business has to meet —
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Shipping notifier
A serverless notifier that watches each order’s shipping status —
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Refund handler
A serverless handler that reads each refund request, checks it against your own written refund policy, drafts a clear and kind reply, and routes the easy ones for one-tap approval —
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Onboarding guide
A serverless guide that walks every new customer through the right first steps automatically.
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Survey analyzer
A serverless analyzer that makes sense of open-ended survey answers.
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Newsletter composer
A serverless composer that gathers the week’s new blog posts, product notes, and wins from the sources you point it at;
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Social scheduler
A serverless scheduler that lets a small business draft every social post in one place, holds a calendar of when each one should go out, checks each post against the rules for the platform it’s headed to, posts it at the scheduled time to the chosen channels, and reports what went out and what failed.
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Testimonial collector
A serverless collector that asks happy customers for a testimonial at the right moment, collects their reply, tidies it into a clean quote with their permission, and files approved ones ready to use on your site.
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FAQ builder
A serverless builder that turns the questions customers actually ask into a self-updating FAQ.
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Contract summarizer
A serverless reader that takes a long contract and hands back a one-page plain-English summary —
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Receipt organizer
A serverless organizer that turns a photo of a receipt into a tidy expense record.
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Inventory reorder bot
A serverless bot that watches the stock level of every item you sell or use, spots the ones dropping below their reorder point (allowing for how fast each one sells and how long the supplier takes to deliver), and drafts a ready-to-send purchase order to the right supplier for the owner to approve.
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Appointment reminder
A serverless reminder that cuts no-shows.
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Invoice chaser
A serverless chaser that watches which invoices are unpaid and past due;
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Document expiry watcher
Tracks every contract, certificate, insurance policy, and license; pings the right owner before each one lapses.
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Quote drafter
Reads incoming RFQs, prices each line against your catalog and rules, drafts a complete quote, never auto-sends.
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Lead intake bot
Catches every new lead, scores against ICP, routes hot ones to a rep with a draft reply attached.
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Review responder
Watches every new review across your platforms, drafts replies in your voice from your own policies.
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Website chat assistant
Answers visitors from your own knowledge in real time, hands the rest to a human cleanly.
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Booking assistant
Reads appointment requests, queries your calendar, proposes slots, confirms atomically.
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Email assistant
Triages your inbox, drafts replies from your knowledge, escalates the rest.
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Voice agent
Answers your business phone, replies in real time, transfers anything beyond its remit.
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Document pipeline
Reads documents, validates each one, sends structured data to wherever it belongs.
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Daily briefing bot
Watches the sources you care about and emails you the few items worth your time.
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AWS autoposting
A scheduled Facebook poster that stays on-topic and answers from a Drive knowledge base.