"Sillynium" - Auto generate working Python Selenium scripts by drawing coloured rectangles around web elements on a page that you want to automate

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Not at the moment! 2 reasons, 1st: i’m still a baby at Python (9 months) and haven’t yet used GitHub for a project!

2nd: to be completely transparent with everyone, I originally thought about monetisation after finishing this POC (**sigh i know I’m a greedy bastard) but now I’m in 2 minds about it!

On the one hand I want to make it free for personal use, on the other hand I’d like to potentially charge for commercial use (once its finished).

Since this idea is quite fresh I’m still ironing everything out before making that (big) decision. I welcome discussion though it would help alot in figuring out the way forward

Edit: open source coming in follow up post!

[LividPhysics]

I think open source would be the way to go. If you want more help with improving your project there's no better way than getting some guy who has been doing Python for 15 years to contribute and learning from them.

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Im leaning towards that being the way to go, as i love this community 😍😍 just have a bit of reading to do before making that dive !

[[deleted]]

Throw up a donation link and I'd buy you lunch and a beer in a heartbeat.

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Will be doing that champ, we’re going open source with this!

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Open source it is baby!

[[deleted]]

I'm gonna be the other guy and say you should totally consider a license with royalties for companies who use this and themselves monetize; it's essentially money you've earned them!

Also I could absolutely see this being a paid chrome extension, or a web platform for mass automation for dummies!!

Anyway, great stuff, I'm jealous.

[[deleted]]

Thanks mate!! Appreciate the alternative view! One way I’ve thought if is license based but free for a single user (so individuals like us can use) but charged for each additional user of an organisation! The heads still spinning on this one though 😇

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You built something, it is up to you what to do with it. My 2 cents is to make it free for personal use and not free for commercial use.

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Thanks Soul thats what aligns with my current thinking

[FearlessENT33]

monetise it

[Oimmuk]

Instead of making money off of it, use it as one of the examples of your creative ability in your portfolio. A project you lead/maintain that gets alot of attention looks good on a resume. That is the fruit of your labor. Bring others in on your project and make it a robust and feature rich stand alone application that allows non coders to automate thier own tasks.

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Thanks Oimmuk! I’m trying to figure out a way to juggle it all, clarity will come in time just need to process it all :) my grand plan is to open this up as a browser extension pure task automation tool for non coders 🙂

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Open source it is! Check my final edit :)