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> After testing it (and soliciting test user feedback), their genius is simple -- don't suck in a category of products where everything else sucks. If you are
by yourapostasy 6y ago
> After testing it (and soliciting test user feedback), their genius is simple -- don't suck in a category of products where everything else sucks.
If you are a non-technical user, they will look like magic. But there were still lots of cases (lots of government sites, integrating with custom programs to pass areas of the screen into so I could run a captcha solver against it, React-heavy sites were the edge cases I ran into) where I could not get UiPath to work for me when I tried it a couple years ago. If they've changed a lot since then, then I'll give them another shot. At the time, I gave up, buckled down and scraped the cursed sites using a variety of means.
I really, really wanted to champion them for the solution at the time. It would have drastically increased the value-add of my deliverable, as the subject-to-change web GUI part that we simply could not get around for the client other than scraping could be updated by the client themselves instead of looping me in for another custom coding session simply because some intern decided it would be cool to change the field names at the same time they added the nifty new UI animation/widget du jour.
- ethbr0 6y agoMost of the tools were late to the game on supporting React: or really, virtual DOM. They're gradually catching up as more sites are written in modern web tech. But it can still be a pain in the ass.