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Ask HN: I will automate your processes for free
Share with me 1-3 processes related to the web you do regularly, which you find tedious and would like to automate.
I will only pick a handful of projects right now to allow myself to deliver the best value to them. My preference goes to use cases that tick the most boxes of these:
- Very repetitive and/or high value to you
- Well defined processes (you can write down the rules / flowchart of what you do precisely, no human judgement should be involved)
- Low in complexity
- Realistic automations - no AI or ML involved
- No internal systems (for now)
Please express your wishes (things with the highest impact) , and besides the realistic aspect, do not feel restricted to my preferences.
Example use cases:
- Synchronize Asana to Google Calendar
- Backup data from Airtable or perform some actions based on it
- Consolidate data from several sources such as your CRM, your analytics, your Medium statistics and whatnot to a single location such as a spreadsheet or even into a Rest API
- Setting up custom alerts based on tweets (if tweet from user X or contains keyword Y and has a positive sentiment send me an email)
- Setup follow up rules for emails such as: If user didn't login for 10 days send them a reminder / survey
- Create your own push notification system, and receive custom events (I can hook you up to webhooks or other systems)
- Setup a basic slackbot that triggers some API call for example, or receive messages in slack from an arbitrary source
- Watch news sources or job boards for keywords or more complex rules, and do whatever you want (receive a notification, store it in the database ..)
- Scrape a website (you'll need to bring your own captcha service if it's required)
- Automatically post for you in several platforms using one submission
Thank you for your time, hope this will lead to great collaborations :-)
- bberenberg 8y agoConvert National Vulnerability Database search results into an RSS feed.
- omneity 8y agoCool idea. I tried to take a look but the website unfortunately seems to be down. https://nvd.nist.gov/ https://nvd.nist.gov/
- bberenberg 8y agoYeah I know, but still really want this. Keep an eye on it when it comes back up.
- omneity 8y agoOut of curiosity, who would be the main demographic to use this? And how critical / time saving would it be to them? Edit: I setup a little watcher using that same platform on this URL. Let me know here or at hi@omneity.xyz if you want to have access to it (via an API endpoint)
- osullivj 8y agoHow are you differentiating from BlockSpring and Zapier?
- omneity 8y agoI am differentiating by - Potentially having an on-premise option - being completely flexible with the automation, and having the ability to write just regular JS code with node modules if need be. - providing some unique managed services bundled in the ecosystem - targeting creating entire applications with UI that leverage automation for their logic (for example a dummy todo app, that manipulates Asana and your Calendar both)