Stop Your Scenarios from Breaking (Make Error Handling Recap)

Last month inside the Co-Build Collective, we focused on something that doesn’t get a lot of love… until it breaks everything: error handling in Make.

Let’s be real — automation is great until it silently fails and you have no clue. That’s where error handling comes in. A simple handler can save you hours of cleanup and missed messages.

🧠 Why Error Handling Matters

Automation breaks. Sometimes for small reasons. Sometimes in ways that quietly break everything else downstream.

To help with that, I put together a quick overview video explaining why this matters and how to avoid common headaches:

🎥 March Video Drop

Here’s a YouTube playlist of videos I created throughout March, all focused on different error handling options in Make.

📎 Quick Reference Guide

To make your life easier, I also made a one-pager cheat sheet you can save to your desktop.

It’s a condensed version of everything in the videos — perfect for those “wait, how do I set this up again?” moments.

👀 Looking Ahead

Technology moves fast — new AI tools, emerging platforms like n8n — it’s easy to get lost in it all. That’s why I stay focused on what’s actually useful right now, so you don’t have to chase shiny objects.

If there’s something specific you want me to cover in a future issue, just hit reply and let me know. I’d love to hear from you.

Sincerely,
Andy “Squash Make Errors” O’Neil