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What have you Automated in your business and life?

One of my main goals for this year is to automate as many of my mundane tasks as possible. It feels like all of the little things add up and introduce a ton of friction that gets in the way of getting things done.

Some things that I plan on automating:

  1. Continuous Build and Deployment from master for all of my projects, something that I can quickly spin up for new projects and have no excuse for not shipping new features because manual deployment is guaranteed to take a few minutes each time. This includes ios app, android app, API, website and blog.
  2. Weekly Business email/slack message with key metrics from all of the different services (stripe, google analytics, ads, firebase, GCP, internal app metrics, etc) so that I don't have to manually navigate through all of the dashboards. Might also do a monthly investor update if I'm happy with the weekly thing.
  3. ETL / Model Training - get airflow workflows for pulling all of the data into datasets and automate model training on top of it.
  4. (Sales) Email Templates / Scripted Replies - Right now I deal with a lot of inbound emails that require writing a pretty standard reply message and performing a bunch of tasks (like creating an account, setting up a trial and sending an invite). I'd love to have something like text expander that could run a script and also generate a templated response. Something that could take setup_trial(days=30, cost_per_call=1, email=...) and fill out the response email and then run a script to do all of the things described.
  5. Scripts / Macros / Aliases for common things that currently take multiple commands/clicks to do, like getting into a specific dev environment and spinning up a demo.

Anyways I'd love to hear if there are any other things that you automated and if you have any favorite tools.

on January 6, 2020