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Re: Ask HN: What is the most useful script for your business or startup?

#41

If I had to chose one, that will be my backup script, without any hesitation. Data is by far the most important thing, nowadays. After that, I would say the script that updates dependencies in all our projects and make merge requests on gitlab if anything has been updated.

Didn't mention a testing/restore script? Found the guy with no backups!

Re: Ask HN: What is the most useful script for your business or startup?

#43

I made a small script that uses pattern matching to automatically parse and organise documents I get from various source (bank, clients, google, etc). It renames the docs and copy them in the right location.

Genuinely interested in this Do you mind sharing some details ? What kind of documents, does the script fetch them automagically, etc ?

Re: Ask HN: What is the most useful script for your business or startup?

#44
Dayjob - server with intermittent memory issues and no budget to replace. Hosts our primary code base, and corrupts the occasional packfile. I'm in the process of writing a git-surgery script that automatically diagnoses fsck issues and traverses remotes to copy back corrupted/missing objects.

side project - some stuff to import customer data dumps into the db quickly. Not quite self-service yet, but getting there.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most useful script for your business or startup?

#46

I wrote a bot that tells me when to buy and sell stocks. So far I've made about 10k profit this year.

Interesting - I understand that there are a number of factors that go into stock trading; what does the bot use to determine buy/sell?

Re: Ask HN: What is the most useful script for your business or startup?

#49
Our engineers used to spend hours each week manually preparing stat reports in excel to send to our enterprise clients. I wrote a library that is essentially an excel templater that queries the database for the metrics, populates a spreadsheet and emails it to the client. We've been integrating it into every project for 5 years now.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most useful script for your business or startup?

#50
Part of deliverables is for clients to have a list of IP's and base configurations for the hadoop clusters we deploy for them. I have a WIP Ruby gem that takes my ansible hosts and variables file along with the Ambari blueprint, which turns it into a CSV and a neatly formatted Markdown file (the latter I convert into PDF).

The next few steps is to upload these things to Google Drive for the clients.

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