The Scariest Thing About Zapier Is the Quiet Stop

I wired a Zap to log every lead. One day the connection expired, the step failed, and the chain died silently. I found out a week later from a missing row.

Zapier is great at connecting 7,000 apps with no code. It's bad at telling you when the glue let go. The default is fail-and-stop, not fail-and-alert.

Fix: add an explicit error path and a daily sanity check that counts rows. Treat 'no news' as suspicious, not reassuring.

No-code removes the engineering, not the operations. The workflow that runs itself also fails itself, quietly. Watch it.