What can be automated in your lives?
Been working with Selenium to automate a few tasks in my life recently. Do you have any tasks that can be automated? And why don't you do it?
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Been working with Selenium to automate a few tasks in my life recently. Do you have any tasks that can be automated? And why don't you do it?
To quote Bill Gates: "The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
Before deciding to automate something there should be a pause and some reflection on whether the task is worth automating in the first place.
A personal example is I wanted to automate some of my time tracking for productivity/work purposes, and found myself working on the solution that didn't actually improve my QOL or productivity by any significant margin. And then I realized time tracking didn't really help me be more productive or do more work, I stopped tracking time.
I think many (including myself) tend to overlook some of these day to day tasks until somebody points them out. What are some of those tasks that you've automated? You may inspire me to do the same!
I automate my investing by regularly collecting and generating basic insights from stock market data. I automate my social media accounts using scheduling and some non-spammy botting. I automate e-mails and messages. I'm just getting into it, but it's saved a lot of time so far.
Hey, can you share what tools did you use? I'm interested cause I'm working on a product for automating stuff.
Selenium with Python
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Quotes from insurance companies, actually I have started doing it using puppeteer some time ago but I quit because I was hired for a company. Now that I am on my way again I am working in my insurance agency and I want to take over that project.
I also have some clients with recurrent payment for some websites, I now it is a good idea to automate the billing mail and create something to make the payment easier.
For a year now, I've been using my own product, Zlappo, to automate my Twitter content creation and promotion.
It's been working like a charm!
Especially since I have a treasure trove of evergreen/viral tweets that I want to put on auto-retweet in the background without even thinking about it.
Cool feature list! FYI, I spotted that one of your recommendations is by FiveStarFunnels, however the Twitter handle you point to doesn't exist anymore.
Recently I started to automate everything I repeat more than three times - it all started with customer support queries to solve some problems with my product, usually ending in some CSV to REST API query (add missing users, resend missing messages, etc).
After third time I encapsulated this into personal automation framework and started to think where else I can use it.
One of the favorite potential big usecases of mine - I'm trying to be more active in .NET community in relevant Telegram chats, but it's like almost 500-1000 msgs per day - there is no way to follow it, so I building myself a neat pipeline to read this chat for me and push me into telegram bot on related keywords.
The telegram bot sounds pretty neat! I guess it can also be productized into a social media digest.
Fun fact: My current product idea came from a very elaborate automation framework I built for my previous product. I used automations to handle customer support queries just like you. I then extended it into something that analyzes user behavior and acts on it. The analysis was a huuge pain point, which spawned Tractific :)
it's not about productizing the bot, I just use them all the time, because they are an integral part of my current business.
I'm more interested in productizing the automation framework in an open-source way (like Ghost or something like that), but yet don't sure how to approach that.
Your story sounds quite interesting - it's very intriguing how personal tools became full-fledged products. I will definitely follow it
Recently I've automated my hotle search on booking.com. I even wrote an article about it https://blog.seamlesscloud.io/2020/08/automate-booking-com-search-using-python/