Lesson 1 of 7
Meet Make
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What if the boring parts of your day — copy this, paste that, send a note — just ran themselves, on a canvas you can watch?
A canvas of modules
Make is a place where you build automations by drawing them. Each step is a module — a little circle that does one job: watch for a new email, add a row, send a message. You join modules with wires, left to right, and data flows along them. Nothing hides in code; the whole flow sits right there on the canvas.
Every module that runs uses one operation — Make's unit of work. A four-module run costs four. That's the meter you're really watching.
Operations are the meter
Your plan comes with a pool of operations for the month. A simple scenario sips a few each run; a busy one drinks more. You don't need to memorise any price — just the shape: more modules, more runs, more operations. Keep flows lean and you'll rarely think about it.
Count the modules and how often a scenario runs, and you can guess its cost before you ever switch it on.
Plan names and free limits shift over time. Anchor on the idea — a module that runs is one operation — not on this month's exact number.
The shape of it
- —Make builds automations visually — modules joined by wires on a canvas.
- —Each module does one job; data flows left to right along the wires.
- —Every module that runs costs one operation — the unit you're spending.
Your scenario has 4 modules and runs 10 times today. Roughly how many operations did it use?
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