Select your difficulty. Get your answers.
SKILL: NIGHTMARELook, you can either spend your life copy-pasting data between apps like some medieval peasant, or you can use Zapier like a goddamn professional. It connects 6,000+ apps and automates the soul-crushing busywork so you can focus on things that actually matter. Like playing Quake. Or making money. Probably both.
A Zap is what happens when you stop doing things manually like a caveman. It's an automated workflow: something triggers it (new email, form submission, your boss being annoying), then sh*t happens automatically (data moves, notifications fire, spreadsheets update). It's like setting up a chain of rocket launchers - pull one trigger, watch the carnage unfold. No coding needed. Your keyboard doesn't even get to participate.
Free tier gets you 100 tasks/month and 5 Zaps. That's enough to dip your toes in without selling plasma. But let's be real - once you taste the sweet nectar of automation, you'll upgrade faster than Ranger picking up a quad damage. The free tier is basically a gateway drug, and I'm your pusher.
Hell yes. Multi-step Zaps that would make a flowchart cry? Done. API integrations that shouldn't technically work but do anyway? My specialty. Webhook spaghetti that somehow makes sense? You bet. I've automated things that would make Zapier's own engineers scratch their heads. Nightmare difficulty is my warm-up.
John Rippy, 2025 Zapier Automation Hero - which is apparently a real thing that exists. I've automated so much stuff that Zapier literally gave me an award for it. My therapist says I have an "unhealthy relationship with workflow optimization." I say she doesn't understand efficiency. When I'm not here fragging manual tasks, I'm building 160+ web scrapers at Actor Arsenal or dominating SEO at Duke's SEO Arsenal. I have... interests.
Besides making Zapier do unholy things, I'm balls deep in Apify web scraping (160+ actors at Actor Arsenal) and SEMrush SEO domination (Duke's SEO Arsenal). Basically, if it involves automating boring crap or extracting data from the internet, I'm probably already doing it. Or building a tool so YOU can do it. I'm very generous with my dysfunction.
Because workflow automation is BRUTAL. It's you versus an endless horde of manual tasks, repetitive processes, and soul-crushing busywork. The brown, gritty, blood-stained Quake aesthetic perfectly captures what it feels like to be in the trenches of productivity warfare. Also, I grew up in the 90s and I refuse to let go. Deal with it.
Define "normal." No, seriously, I genuinely don't know what that word means anymore. I have Actor Arsenal which is DOOM-themed Apify web scraping (160 actors, zero chill), and Duke's SEO Arsenal for SEMrush tools with a Duke Nukem theme because "time to kick ass and rank keywords" is objectively the greatest tagline ever written. I've committed fully to this retro game aesthetic lifestyle and I'm not apologizing.