Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your company?

90 day passwords, with multiple internal sites & servers each needing unique ones? I don't understand why we don't have automated client certificates and auto-generated ssh keys.

Re: Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your company?

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Post by beaver6969 » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 3:45 PM UTC

Someone looking for start up ideas?

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Post by daw___ » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 3:46 PM UTC

mindcrime wrote: post #2

I'm working on some marketing automation stuff. Automatically sharing blog post links to Twitter, etc.

If your blog provides an RSS feed then there are many options to choose from to achieve autoposting to Twitter, first two that come to my mind:

https://dlvrit.com/

https://ifttt.com/connect/feed/twitter

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Post by skyyler » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 3:46 PM UTC

I'd love to take the time to change the way our IT department functions. They don't automate anything. They don't virtualize. They don't believe in rack mounted servers. We have 30 tower servers sitting on a specially built shelf, taking up most of a room. It's absurd but I have so much other shit to do that I can't justify completely disrupting their entire workflow

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Post by hentrep » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 3:46 PM UTC

I work in pharma, and our biggest bottleneck is drafting and executing service agreements and statements of work with new vendors. A system to facilitate this workflow would be amazing (document templates, a queue for requests with weekly status updates, etc.)

Of course there is manual work done by Legal that can't be easily automated, but that is just one component of the bottleneck.