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Schedule form posting

Hi, I have the ideas to build a micro saas that can schedule form posting on a certain datetime.
I'ts will be a platform where a user can put the link of the form, than it scrape the form, the user fill it and set a datetime when he want to send it.
Do you think that anyone can be intersted by this feature even for free ?

on July 5, 2021
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    Yes, this is interesting. I thought about this for myself recently in order to reserve tennis courts. In my city, there is a website for reserving public tennis courts. But you can only reserve 48 hours in advance at noon, often when I'm at work. It would be helpful to schedule a bot in advance to be able to reserve at exactly noon. The same could be used to reserve concert tickets.

    A few challenges to overcome:

    1. There are a broad number of use cases for this. Moreover, I don't think this is a product that I would use every day. Maybe I would use it once every 6 months. In order to do targeted distribution, I think it would be important to find an audience that has a need for this very frequently, for instance several times a day.
    2. Personally, I wouldn't use this unless the success rate were essentially 100%. For a really important form submission, I may not trust the bot to enter the form data properly. I would probably want to do it manually. Perhaps this problem could be addressed if you identified specific forms in advance that the user could pre-submit to, and you kept a list of those forms. That way, perhaps you could run automated tests to make sure that the form submissions worked.... maybe? Of course, that would reduce the applicability of the product.
    3. Bot protection such as captchas may interfere with this product.

    If you find a way around these problems and built it, let me know. I'd be a beta tester.

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      Thank you for the detailed comment,
      Effectively i taught about those points especially for the use case i was hoping thay somebody would have a better utilisation that just submit form once in a while.
      If i don't t finding any better idea i will try this one not to get money but at least get small audience.