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Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?

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Post by bearton »

I automate legal documents usings Advobot (advobot.co), a messenger based chatbot that walks you through drafting legal documents. It makes drafting legal documents easy and conversational and is much faster than traditional methods. I can also use it from my phone, which makes drafting legal documents on the go much easier.

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Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?

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Post by kensoh »

SirLJ wrote: post #67
kensoh wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to write trading systems for Amibroker. This one signaled the 2009 march bull market in equities and oil. But it is a swing/longterm trading system. I was a daytrader so it is not really useful for that. https://github.com/tebelorg/Tump/blob/master/trading_z.js

Thanks, Looks very interesting, my hobby is to back test different trading systems, so I will take a more deeper look into it next week...

Have fun! This one is a trend-following system for swing/position trading. It hasn't been backtested to factor new market behavior for the last 6-7 years, so it'll probably do badly now. My failure was not being able to convert that for daytrading timeframe.

PS: anyway, sorry for digressing away from the topic of the HN thread lol

Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?

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Post by fatihky »

ehudla wrote: post #86

Preparing purchase form for university library and letting me know when books I order become available. https://github.com/ehud/Library

Discalimer: I am working for uptime robot as a freelancer. Hi, if it fits, uptime robot[1] has keyword monitor type. I think you may use this monitor type to track book pages(for ex you use "available" as keyword).

It is free for 50 monitors.

[1] https://uptimerobot.com

Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?

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Post by dba7dba »

ajarmst wrote: post #22

I'm the kind of nerd who greatly prefers writing automation code to doing anything remotely repetitive. (I'm afraid to work out the actual timings because I'm pretty sure that I often spend more time coming up with the automation than just doing the task would take). I've got a script that automatically rips, converts and stitches together audiobooks from the library so that I can play them on my phone. It just beeps…

I go about automation in even less efficient way.

I spend many months doing repetitive tasks. And than I realize I should automate them, and proceed to spend hours coming up with scripts/tools to automate them.

Happens way too often...

Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?

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Post by kensoh »

ajarmst wrote: post #22

I'm the kind of nerd who greatly prefers writing automation code to doing anything remotely repetitive. (I'm afraid to work out the actual timings because I'm pretty sure that I often spend more time coming up with the automation than just doing the task would take). I've got a script that automatically rips, converts and stitches together audiobooks from the library so that I can play them on my phone. It just beeps…

Cool! Maybe you'll enjoy something such as Sikuli. It basically lets you automate the actions to take on your desktop or laptop visually. It's based on OpenCV and has a simple interface to use.

Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?

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Post by kensoh »

dba7dba wrote: post #94
ajarmst wrote: post #22

I'm the kind of nerd who greatly prefers writing automation code to doing anything remotely repetitive. (I'm afraid to work out the actual timings because I'm pretty sure that I often spend more time coming up with the automation than just doing the task would take). I've got a script that automatically rips, converts and stitches together audiobooks from the library so that I can play them on my phone. It just beeps…

I go about automation in even less efficient way. I spend many months doing repetitive tasks. And than I realize I should automate them, and proceed to spend hours coming up with scripts/tools to automate them. Happens way too often...

I believe there is also merit in spending a lot of time repeatedly doing something, before proceeding to automate that workflow. Because only through that, you gain a deep understanding of 'edge/exception' cases which you can directly code into your script later on to manage.

Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?

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Post by ghaff »

I wrote a little script [1] to automate a lot of the steps associated with publishing a podcast. There's still manual work but this takes care of a lot of the fiddly repetitive detail work that's both time-consuming and error-prone. Especially if I do a batch of podcasts at an event, this is a lifesaver.

[1] https://opensource.com/article/17/4/automate-podcast-publish...

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