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

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I resize image assets for iOS to @1x @2x @3x with https://gist.github.com/david90/52a38b6279b7beabd7e8

Would ask my colleague to comment but he's on his honeymoon. He's recently gone from creating App Store screenshots manually to using a script. For each release, creates five or so screens, each for multiple device sizes multiplied by 20+ languages. Can only imagine how much time it saves.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have 3 seconds thinking this is a spam lol

It's a response to a problem the customer has raised. In that context it won't look like spam. I'm not keen on the conciliatory tone and going straight to a 'bribe' of a refund/offer/etc, but in some markets that could work. If I had it as a response I'd feel like I was getting a brush-off rather than someone was trying to engage with me and fix my problem. If someone is willing to go to the effort of making a compla…

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

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Its not one specific script. But integrating Slack everywhere to get notifications is almost always worth it.

I never got the Slack hype...

Before slack i used third party platforms to send me notifications to MSN, later Skype then some strange chat app i don't exactly remember. Now i can simply use the webhook with a simple post request to send notifications to a central place where i can consume them as i need/want to. I used IRC for while but thats drains to much battery on a smartphone, i also tried XMPP but, while its awesome for what it is, it is a pain to manage and setup, especially just for passing messages, mostly one way.

The are several nice reasons to use or not use slack, but this is my personal reason why i have a slack all for myself.

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

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I resize image assets for iOS to @1x @2x @3x with https://gist.github.com/david90/52a38b6279b7beabd7e8

Would ask my colleague to comment but he's on his honeymoon. He's recently gone from creating App Store screenshots manually to using a script. For each release, creates five or so screens, each for multiple device sizes multiplied by 20+ languages. Can only imagine how much time it saves.

I think your colleague is using Snapshot[0], which is a part of Fastlane[1]

[0]: https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/tree/master/snapshot#re... [1]: https://fastlane.tools/

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

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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.

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

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The one that scans inbox for emails from "Kumar" (a DBA at our clients). Looks for keywords like "help", "trouble", "sorry" etc. If keywords are found - the script SSHes into the clients server and rolls back the staging database to the latest backup. Then sends a reply "no worries mate, be careful next time".

More serious, I have a script that uses gitlab and gitlabci that integrates it with FDroid repo and builds and publishes .apk on internal FDroid repo. Each git branch, tag and release has its own publication in the repo where everyone can test the app, also easy to find regressions by using the app before we use git bisect.

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

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Its not one specific script. But integrating Slack everywhere to get notifications is almost always worth it.

I never got the Slack hype...

Problem is, 99% of it is crap.

Slack is okay and there are some really good bots for it.

But everyone jumps on that train and so for every good integration there are 20 bad ones, that spam your channel with stuff no one needs to know :\

Takes a bit time to find the good things.

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