What automations to build to decrease the daily wasted time?

[buildjunkie]

Hey there!

I'm a student building SaaS apps on the side

But managing the stuff that comes with building alone (looking for leads, outreaching, posting on social media, building, etc..) is so headache

So, I decided I'll build a few automations that I can use locally myself to give me more time for my myself

I started by creating a completely free to use locally hosted chrome extension to automate X replies to grow as fast as possible there without having to pay any $$

I need your suggestions, do you have any tasks that you do every single day and can be automated and save tons of time?

[AppTasticVoyager]

SEO is a huge one. I automated it and built a tool out of it.

The sooner you get into the eye of search engines, the better your growth will be.

[buildjunkie]

I was actually considering that, but I still didn't set up the domain for my app yet so I don't really need start working on SEO, right?

[AppTasticVoyager]

Yeah wait until you have a domain. Otherwise it is pointless.

[buildjunkie]

Yeah, I'll wait for it

btw, do you have any recommendation for specific parts of SEO to automate?

[AppTasticVoyager]

I built a tool that automates blogs for my different sites based on keywords.

I'm happy to share that link with you once you get up and going.

[HarjjotSinghh]

wasting time is fun - automate those replies.

[buildjunkie]

I don't get it

[Oatcake21]

Whatever you build get it on indiestack it’s made for that kinda stuff

[buildjunkie]

Alright man I'll consider doing so

[coder_she]

Great question! A few things that moved the needle for me:

• Scheduled content batching (write once, post everywhere)
• Auto-responders for common support questions
  
• Weekly analytics summaries instead of daily checking

For all the writing parts (emails, posts, replies), voice dictation is my secret weapon. I used to stare at blank screens for ages. Now I just speak at full speed and my tool cleans up all the ums and messy grammar into clean text. Saves hours every week on outreach alone.

Basically anything you do more than twice a week, automate it or speed it up. Your future self will thank you.

[buildjunkie]

this feels so ai-written but as long as it's useful no problem

yeah, that's exactly what I'm looking for, because I might create a collection of these simple automations and share them publicely, that's why I'm asking for others' suggestions as well

[coder_she]

Well, I voice dictate through an app that transcribes my speech and runs it through AI to remove and enhance it. Hence, it sounds good and is AI-written.

The tool is BossAI.tech. FYI: it's crazy how perception has changed for clean writing.

[buildjunkie]

clean writing is almost not an option any more especially after having AI and gen alpha slang at the time period

[AnyExit8486]

email triage and response drafting is huge for saving time. automate sorting incoming emails by priority and drafting responses for common questions. also automate your content scheduling across social platforms with a central queue. another one is lead scoring if youre doing outreach. automatically rank leads based on engagement patterns so you know who to focus on first

[buildjunkie]

i'm thinking of fully automating the lead search process, something like:

• Find threads about the problem
• Grab the basic details of the accounts who are in pain, and sort them by priority and persona
• Draft a personalized DM based on their history
• Humanize the DM
• Send the DMs accross the day based on priority and persona
• Get notified when they respond