Send a daily competitor and mentions digest to Slack
Been seeing a lot of "i automated everything" posts that are light on specifics so here's mine, warts and all. Task: Been seeing a lot of "i automated everything" posts that are light on specifics so here's mine, warts and all. Running and actually useful: Morning digest-- pulls competitor news, relevant twitter activity, any reddit mentions of things i care about, new reviews on g2 for my space. lands in slack at 7am. This alone has saved me probably 2 hours a day of context-gathering that used to happen throughout the day in annoying fragments. Lead qualification-- new inbound leads get researched automatically before i see them. by the time i open the CRM entry it already has company context, recent funding, tech stack signals, linkedin summary of the contact. used to do this manually for every lead which was soul-destroying. Invoice follow-up-- late invoices get a polite automated nudge at day 8 and day 16. embarrassingly simple. i just kept forgetting to chase them manually. half-broken / still figuring out: Content repurposing-- the idea was to turn my longer posts into twitter threads, linkedin posts, etc. automatically. the output is technically correct but reads like content. i can tell it came from an agent and i assume others can too. haven't found the right prompt setup yet. Meeting prep briefs-- it researches whoever i'm meeting with and writes a brief. the research is good, the format is still weirdly formal for how i actually want to read it. keep meaning to fix the prompt, haven't. gave up on: Automated responses to support emails. tried it for three weeks. the emails were fine but i kept wanting to change them. at that point you're not saving time, you're just adding a step. running this on twin.so, the reason specifically is that a lot of what i need to monitor and pull from doesn't have APIs, so browser automation is necessary, not optional. it's not perfect but it handles the messy stuff better than anything else i tried. what does your setup look like and what have you given up on; tools: custom-built or unnamed agent. Human role: The original post does not say how a person stayed involved.; limitations: Prerequisites include access to browser automation tools for sources lacking APIs. Constraints involve the agent's inability to perfectly mimic human tone for content repurposing and meeting briefs without further prompt engineering. Integration uncertainty exists for automated support emails, which failed due to high human intervention rates. Source reliability is secondary, based on a Reddit post with no verified metrics beyond the author's self-reported time savings..
Tools
custom-built or unnamed agent
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Overview
Been seeing a lot of "i automated everything" posts that are light on specifics so here's mine, warts and all.
Workflow
Been seeing a lot of "i automated everything" posts that are light on specifics so here's mine, warts and all. Running and actually useful: Morning digest-- pulls competitor news, relevant twitter activity, any reddit mentions of things i care about, new reviews on g2 for my space. lands in slack at 7am. This alone has saved me probably 2 hours a day of context-gathering that used to happen throughout the day in annoying fragments. Lead qualification-- new inbound leads get researched automatically before i see them. by the time i open the CRM entry it already has company context, recent funding, tech stack signals, linkedin summary of the contact. used to do this manually for every lead which was soul-destroying. Invoice follow-up-- late invoices get a polite automated nudge at day 8 and day 16. embarrassingly simple. i just kept forgetting to chase them manually. half-broken / still figuring out: Content repurposing-- the idea was to turn my longer posts into twitter threads, linkedin posts, etc. automatically. the output is technically correct but reads like content. i can tell it came from an agent and i assume others can too. haven't found the right prompt setup yet. Meeting prep briefs-- it researches whoever i'm meeting with and writes a brief. the research is good, the format is still weirdly formal for how i actually want to read it. keep meaning to fix the prompt, haven't. gave up on: Automated responses to support emails. tried it for three weeks. the emails were fine but i kept wanting to change them. at that point you're not saving time, you're just adding a step. running this on twin.so, the reason specifically is that a lot of what i need to monitor and pull from doesn't have APIs, so browser automation is necessary, not optional. it's not perfect but it handles the messy stuff better than anything else i tried. what does your setup look like and what have you given up on
Reported result
The author reports saving approximately 2 hours daily on context gathering due to the automated morning digest. Lead qualification and invoice follow-ups are described as running successfully. However, content repurposing and meeting prep briefs are currently 'half-broken' due to unnatural tone and formatting issues, and automated support email responses were abandoned after three weeks because manual editing negated time savings.
Human role
The original post does not say how a person stayed involved.
Limitations
Prerequisites include access to browser automation tools for sources lacking APIs. Constraints involve the agent's inability to perfectly mimic human tone for content repurposing and meeting briefs without further prompt engineering. Integration uncertainty exists for automated support emails, which failed due to high human intervention rates. Source reliability is secondary, based on a Reddit post with no verified metrics beyond the author's self-reported time savings.
Try it
Act as an automation engineer. I need to set up a daily competitor and mention digest for my business. Inputs: - Competitor names: [replaceable inputs] - Keywords for Reddit/Twitter monitoring: [replaceable inputs] - Slack channel for delivery: [replaceable inputs] - Source URLs for G2/Twitter/Reddit: [replaceable inputs] Steps: 1. Use a browser automation tool (like twin.so or similar) to scrape the specified sources for the last 24 hours. 2. Aggregate findings into a concise summary format. 3. Schedule the delivery to the specified Slack channel at 7:00 AM. 4. Perform a dry run with a sample dataset and present the output to me for approval before scheduling the live job. Deliverables: A working automation script or workflow configuration and a sample digest output. Quality Check: Ensure the digest is readable, relevant, and delivered on time. If any source fails to scrape, log the error and notify me. Do not send live messages until I confirm the sample output is acceptable.
Source reports are not independently verified. Publication date is the catalog publication date, not the original article date.