Developer Automates Bug Reports from Tally Forms to GitHub and Discord via Make

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A developer building a privacy-focused Android app called Timety needed a way to collect user feedback without requiring account creation. To avoid manually handling form submissions, they built an automated workflow connecting the form tool Tally, GitHub, and Discord using the automation platform Make. The setup routes three types of submissions — bug reports, feature requests, and general feedback — to GitHub Issues or Discussions with appropriate labels, while also sending alerts to a Discord channel. Bug reports and feature requests use GitHub's GraphQL API to populate existing issue templates, with an extra step to format any screenshot URLs for Markdown. The workflow provides a fallback since Tally still sends email copies of submissions if the automation fails.

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