I'm a developer and I like building small tools to fix annoying manual work. Curious what's the most tedious, repetitive thing you deal with on a computer — for your business, freelance work, or just life admin. Some examples of what I m
Anyone else deal with this?
I got tired of manually refreshing a site to check for [restocks/open slots/updates], so I wrote a small Python script to do it for me. Made me wonder how many other annoying manual tasks people are stuck doing by hand — spreadsheet copying, invoice formatting, merging files, that kind of thing.
What's yours?
I'm doing research for a project. I'm a developer (Python) and I'm trying to find real, specific problems people deal with — not general ideas, actual annoying tasks.
If you run a small business, freelance, or just deal with repetitive computer work, I want to hear about the one thing that eats your time every week. Things like:
Copying data between spreadsheets or platforms
Manually checking a website for updates, restocks, or new postings
Reformatting invoices or reports every week
Merging files from different sources
Sending the same type of message or email over and over
Comment or DM me what it is and roughly how much time it costs you. If it's something I can automate, I'll build it for free as part of this research — no charge, no commitment, just want a real problem to work on.