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Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
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#2I’m receiving a weekly ePub compilation of all my pinboard “read later” links via email every Sunday evening.
That was basically my first project using serverless functions and it was a fun thing to build.
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#3I automated checking the website of the French equivalent of the DMV to be able to book an appointmenT :)
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#5I had a cron job that sends automatically a text to my wife each morning along with a joke, she's in another country so is something I did to keep the communication open
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#6Automating book renewals back when I was in grad school. :shrug:
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#7I recently made a bot that scapes the local apartment listings every five minutes, filters by price and area, and then sends me the new ones in the form of Telegram messages with the basic details, a GIF of the photos (scaled to mobile size), and a map widget.
Getting push notifications with the new apartments is really great, and I'll definitely be making more Telegram bots in the future...
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#8Not sure if this counts because I didn't actually code anything: but using gmail filters to automate my personal email flow has had a huge effect on my day.
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#9I track my visits to the gym with a geofence trigger with my phone--logs to a google spreadsheet through IFTTT.
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#10I had a cron job that sends automatically a text to my wife each morning along with a joke, she's in another country so is something I did to keep the communication open
You automated a part of your relationship. This is awesome!