Ask HN: What do you automate in your life and work?

Post by gadders » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 6:33 PM UTC

barbs wrote: post #68

1zael wrote: post #6

Back when Tinder's API was more open, I had a Python script that would autoswipe everyone in the match queue. Then I'd go through all my matches, manually filter the ones I didn't like, and message the ones I did. It was highly efficient, increased my conversation rate, but didn't really impact my end metrics ;)

There was a hilarious article a few years back about someone who automated every part of the dating process, including the actual dating using a bot on a segway and automatically ordering sex toys. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Post by shostack » Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 9:54 PM UTC

rwiggum wrote: post #181

shostack wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My understanding from Plaid's somewhat confusing docs is that the Free tier gives transaction and balance data from cash accounts, but I need it from all of my asset accounts, which you seem to need to be on the $500/mo plan for. Since this is just for personal use, I can't really justify that. All I care about is monthly account balances and month ending amounts for historic months for ALL accounts (cash, assets, de…

I think you're wrong (yay!) about plaid's pricing. My startup uses them, and we are very low volume, and we pay $1.50 for an auth and $0.30 / month for each active account we pull transactions from. Getting balance costs $0.10 / call though. We signed up probably about 6 months ago.

Post by majewsky » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 9:18 AM UTC

gield wrote: post #135

majewsky wrote: post #110

[Not really automation, but I'm hijacking the opportunity to tell the story.] I'm a terrible morning person and I noticed that I need much longer to get up and dressed and everything than it reasonably should take. On the order of "taking 1 hour to do stuff that can be done in 15 minutes". I seem to have ADHD (disclaimer: not formally diagnosed, just going off of symptom lists and descriptions from other people), and…

I need this in my life. Is the source code public somewhere, or can you make it public?

Post by davchana » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 2:34 AM UTC

michaelfavia wrote: post #127

gorgoiler wrote: post #55

I have a folder on my mail server called “Dead”. If I move an email to that folder then all subsequent emails to the same address as the first one go into “Dead/Match”. It’s driven by procmail and a script. When used with one-off email addresses you get a behavior that’s like unsubscribing, but without having to trust any “unsubscribe” links or processes, and also without having to edit any config files (it’s all dri…

Until you book again at that hotel chain or third party agent like Priceline and never receive another email again right? I like the premise but the details seem like they would cause more trouble than the solution solves.

Post by mk60sboy » Tue, Nov 05, 2019, 1:35 PM UTC