Readit Newstohs19 commented on Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities? · Posted by u/beatthatflight
I manage a Family Office and do monthly performance presentations with PowerPoint, the slides have an unique design, and updating them every month became extremely tedious and error prone.
I was already looking for an excuse to learn Python and this was perfect.
Instead of recreating the slides I created templates (just the last set of presentations) and update them with info directly queried from the database, using python-pptx and pyodbc.
This isn’t exactly an example of a “tool”, but I think the most important part isn’t really the tool, but to be able to identify what you can automate. How you do it might range from DIY to paying someone to code for you, but the feeling after getting rid of manual processes is great!
Also at an FO here, this is great. We started templating everything last year and it’s been a huge relief.
Project management in Asana we also turned into templates, things are simple but flow so much easier.
Likely to look a multinational corporations or groups dabbling in many things. Everyone naturally will be wearing many “hats” and they will look out for that.