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Bart Drijver
What’s your job and which part would you like to automate?
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We all have parts of our jobs we'd like to automate. What's one thing you would like to get automated in your current job?
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Kate Santoro
Content and community manager here. Things I'd love to automate: - responding to comments/messages on social media - automatically extracting KPI data from sources to my spreadsheet - documenting work in Asana - posting Reels/stories - for some reason lots of social media planning apps don't let you publish those.
John Koo
@kate_santoro1 I'm also having the same problems regarding social media management. Do you use any tools to manage social media accounts? i'm thinking about paying to use one. Any recommendation?
Kate Santoro
@imjohnkoo We use Hubspot so I'm able to schedule some posts in there, though it won't let me scheduled Reels or Stories, not sure why. As for dealing with messages, I know that it's possible to connect Instagram DMs to Intercom if you use that, and maybe to Zendesk and other support centers as well. But it doesn't help me too much because I'm more so talking about replying to comments on posts, responses to stories, etc. Good luck with it!
Sara Greene
@kate_santoro1 Platforms such as ManyChat or Tidio can be set up to respond to comments on posts, stories and DM's (for FB and IG)!
Roberto Gómez - Scalar.so
Entrepreneur. Tab cleaning, every now and then, close whats not important, document in the correct place what its interesting etc.
Samyak Jain
@roberjet Try "eesel: The new tab for work" . It's an extension that arranges link for all your sheets, documents and prompts on a new tab.
Mutlu Sakar
Product manager here. I would really love something takes notes on meetings without my touch. There are lots of tools but they are mainly in English. I am struggling to use them in my native languege :(
Edgars
@mutlusakar What language would you need?
Heleana Grace
We produce videos for various B2B/SaaS companies, which means we spend a good amount of time preparing things before the cameras even start filming. I'd really love a button that would set up the scene immediately so we can just film right away without having to worry about angles and bad lighting. Sounds like a far-fetched dream but hey, it's a nice one regardless.
Anastasia Reich
In Sense — Your Artificial Memory, we are working on automating the full cycle of knowledge and information management, so you could focus on high-cognitive tasks. Check out my product, we are LIVE now💜
Dan Li
we're automating moving data between tools with Plus! just take a plus snapshot once, drop it in your deck/doc/slack/etc. and we will keep it up to date --> plusdocs.com :)
Ágh Helmut
Entrepreneur. Previously I had a software development agency and now I'm working on my own startup. Of course, marketing is the hardest part. I have to create content for my ads and it takes a lot of time. AI is not good enough yet, but it would be amazing if somebody could just work on my ads as a subscription service.
Veselin Kostov
IT Delivery Lead here! Automating filling in timesheets would be amazing. We need to be very strict and detailed for each hour/half hour, so it takes lots of time.
Rakshith Ravi
We're building a PaaS. I think one of the biggest things I'd want to automate is the feedback cycle from customers, and being able to prioritize features based on what customers want. Right now, I manually go through our feedback for every single one of them and build out features accordingly
Katja Alissa Mueller
Creative director. Bundling, summarising and prioritising my open and bookmarked tabs. The hours I would win back...
Elias Fares
I'm a Senior Product Designer so I design apps, conduct research, work with developers and others. I don't know if any part of my job can be automated. If I had to choose, it would be documenting my work and saving notes/screenshots automatically.
Shannon Coulon
Hi Bart! I am the Social Media Director for MarketingBox. I plan, create, edit, publish, etc all of our content for our social channels including our podcast and YouTube channel. I would love to automate responding to comments and posting to reels/stories. Although Instagram now allows you to schedule reels, most social media planning tools like Hootsuite don't make this process seamless.
BiglySales
The part that we wanted to automate was sales and marketing outreach and also subsequent data entry. These tasks wasted hours everyday. We created a product that handles these tasks and gives us our time back. biglysales.com
Aditi Shah
Product Manager here. I would really like to automate documentation and content creation based on feature updates.
Victor Kernes
I’m a product designer and I’d like to automate: 1. Scheduling user research sessions 2. Creating user research questions and outlines 3. Gathering data insights after shipping a project or feature
Gabriel Romero
As a co-founder, one of my top priorities is to streamline our operations and make our workflows as efficient as possible. To achieve this, I believe that automating the majority of our grunt work is essential. For instance, tasks such as moving data between systems can be automated to save time and reduce errors. By automating these types of tasks, we can free up our team's time and energy to focus on more critical aspects of our business. Currently working on a developer alternative to apps such as Retool and Zapier. #AutomateTheBoringStuff
Nilan Saha
I am a CTO at a VC backed healthcare startup. There are a lot of marketing + tech aspects to my job which I will automate soon. Like getting daily, weekly and monthly reports on which sources or channels are bring in the most revenue. There are plenty more.
Richard Gao
Would love to automate tweeting entirely for engagement haha Takes up such a large chunk of time
John Koo
@richard_gao2 same here. I've spending at least 1 hr to manage my social media account. how long do you spend average?
Vlad Kooklev
As a product manager and entrepreneur, I have fully or partially automated these parts of my job by ChatGPT: - Product documentation - Product research - Gathering product requirements - Customer support - Product analytics - Content creation - User testing - Competitive analysis
Morgan Lucas
Contractor looking for long time work. An automated response to emails that don't fit a criteria with the usual spiel ("Thank you, check out my portfolio, maybe in the future.")