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Ask HN: What is the most useful script for your business or startup?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the most useful script for your business or startup?
#52My fellow employees and I are supposed to send a "time sheet" detailing how many hours we work, how much time we spent working on "x" and "y", etc., via e-mail every week (by noon on Monday for the previous week). I have a cron job that fires off a Perl script at 8:45 a.m. every Monday morning that composes that e-mail and sends it off for me. On the rare occasion that I was on vacation the previous week (and forgot…
Funny, I do something similar. At my work, I'm supposed to submit a time sheet every week through a web based economy system. The system is both slow and tedious and annoying as things may be, so me and a collegue wrote a python script to submit our time sheets from the command line. I've now coupled this with a personal journal system I use in Vim, so that I can submit my timesheets from within Vim every Friday. Very neat!
The same economy system is also used for project management. I also have a script to download and parse the economy data for a project and present it to me in a meaningful manner, which means I pretty much never have to actually use our internal economy system.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most useful script for your business or startup?
#53I wrote a bot that tells me when to buy and sell stocks. So far I've made about 10k profit this year.
How much did you put in to get 10k profit?