🔥 Best AI Automation Tools: Nominate Your Favorites for the Product Hunt Orbit Awards

Thank you for the thread @aaronoleary:

@Zapier : Reliability and integrations. It connects to absolutely everything.

Day-to-day: I use it to process my meetings. As soon as a call ends in @Grain (my AI-notekaer), Zapier automatically grabs the transcript, synthesizes the key points and next steps, and sends a summary directly to my email. It turns 1 hour of talking into a 2-minute read instantly.

@Make Significantly cheaper for high-volume tasks.

@n8n The community templates are unmatched.

In 2025: I’ve started using @Manus specifically for generating detailed reports. It handles long-form content generation incredibly well.

Hi @aaronoleary, it's a great initiative to collect nominations / recommendations from the community versus keeping it 100% editorial.

I see a lot of biased comments and I love that makers and their teams are proud of creations. :)

Here are my unbiased nominations truly based on my use cases (I have no affiliation with any of these except for being a repeat hunter for Zapier on the request of the Zapier team and Comet for Android).

• Comet Assistant (works on desktop and mobile) — I give it some tasks related to research mostly.

• n&n — Their template library and now ability to prompt to build workflows will help a lot of folks automate their tasks.

• Zapier — The OG of automation now with AI capabilities. I hunted two launches for them this year for their MCP.

• IFTTT — Good for simple automation tasks and has a mobile app too.

• Trace — Been using since its release. I usually just dump a rough prompt in and it builds a full workflow for me, which is honestly quite cool. I like that I can tweak the graph after if something feels off. Switching tasks between human and agents is super handy when the AI isn’t quite there yet. Would love better notifications when something fails, but overall it’s been alright.

Let me know if you need any assistance with content / review for any when you write the next Orbit awards post. I am reachable via email anytime. :)

I nominate Claude-Mem but clearly I’m biased :)

Nominating @Trace
Short version: it helps me think. Long version: I throw in a goal, Trace builds a workflow, and I refine it from there. I’ve been using it for posting to Twitter as part of larger workflows. Would love a way to debug agent runs step by step.

I really like the idea of @Trace (even though it's kinda rough on implementation side rn). I gave it a messy idea and it came back with a workflow that usually makes sense. Some tasks it flagged as automatable that I hadn’t even thought about. Also nice that I can flip a task back to myself when the AI struggles. Overall really cool idea and I hope it continues to improve!

We went with @Trace at UniSub instead of trying to build our own workflow system. It does a good job of automating boring workflows, and the pricing makes sense compared to doing this ourselves. We’ve already saved a noticeable amount of time using it. Shared the full review here

Recently launched @Obsess AI - Retail Agent for Shopify Merchants. check it out.

Nice category to be second for the Orbit Awards!

I mostly use Trace for content workflows. Stuff like reviewing docs, summarising them, then drafting an overview. When it works, it works REALLY well, like doing 90% of the job for me. Would not be possible if workflows were 100% AI, the tech is just not there yet. Would be cool to chat directly with each agent though since it's a black box as of now.

@Trace Very solid idea! Takes some time playing with the tool to get the results, but when it works it's very nice!