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by kilroy123 2023 days ago
I use a lot of automation these days, here's a summary:

- There's only one bakery in my area that has keto bread, but infrequently. I have a daily bot that scans the bakery page on the Uber eats equivalent webpage, then alerts me when bread is available.

- On my phone I get a notification in the morning. When I click it, it copies my daily journals markdown template, opens the note app. Then I paste and write.

- I have a bot that scans hacker news for keywords and notifies me. Which alerted me to this post. :)

- I have a bot that which scans reddit and twitter for keywords.

- I have a bot that watches Rotten Tomatoes for upcoming Sci-fi movies that are rated "Fresh". Then creates an RSS feed for me.

- A bot that watches my side project and lets me know when it goes down.

- My entire side project is completely automated and a daily email goes out automatically (https://randomdailyart.com/)

- I get email reminders and notifications on my phone to remain in contact with people using https://www.monicahq.com/.

- Built a telegram bot where my SO and I can quickly add entries into a google sheet, for tracking who paid for what.

I'm sure there's more but that's all I can think of on the top of my head.

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Just curious on what bot framework you use
I use a mix of huginn, n8n, rss-bridge, some custom code that runs via cron job, and I'm using puppeteer more and more.
Dang this is next level personal automation here

I haven't even set up a webscraper alert for a ps5

ive been thinking of an app link "monica" for a long time! gonna try it out right now, thanks for sharing :)
What do you host your projects on?
Everything is on a digital ocean box.