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Honestly? Make “status update” slides. If I had a tool that could take a Markdown list of weekly achievements, turn that into slides, automatically add a schedule or Gantt chart that was adjusted to the current date, and pull from a set of stock boilerplate verbiage to fill it out to the required page count I would pay a hundred bucks for it out of my own pocket. And yes, I do know about pandoc.
- git: even with a lot of "bash automation" when it comes to cloning projects, rebasing and merging is still a pain.
- Switching databases/workspaces when working on different versions of a product. Fixing a minor bug could take a few hours waiting for things to pull, setup, build, run etc..
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The keyword should be "tedious", not just repetitive. I wouldn't want a machine to automate my getting up and stretching or making and drinking a coffee, those are activities that are arguably needed to keep oneself sane while working.
Maybe you don't want such a machine, but I sure do! And I consider all of those things tedious, and repetitive. I get that not every startup idea or problem-solution set is for everyone - but come on, I'm out here pitching dozens of real-world relatable problems that real people have. I honestly don't believe that there are people with 0 repetitive tasks in their lives that could see no improvements with software (or…
I wrote a framework for these kind of things, a wrapper on top of (p)expect: https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit
"Uh… we have sort of a problem here. Yeah. You apparently didn’t put one of the new coversheets on your TPS reports." I have to format my daily work log two different ways, one in a PDF and one in a word document.
This is a great way to find ideas for a startup btw... the classic one is finding out what tedious stuff people do in Excel all day then simplify and automate. I will say for me I spend probably too long opening a series of programs and getting set up before I can work. I believe there is software for this, but my dream is to have it simple and customizable by project. I would love to be able to open everything to th…
Someone just released an app for macOS to solve this problem [1].