Hacker News .hnnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin
Show HN: Autotool – open-source gradual automation (github.com/aklos)
6 points by prohobo on Nov 23, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
Autotool is a native desktop app that helps you formalize and automate processes that give you trouble in terms of toil, difficulty remembering steps, or dealing with workflows someone else has created. The idea was inspired by the "Do-nothing scripting"[1] article published a few years ago. It's actually not an implementation of do-nothing scripting specifically, but enables that if that's what you want to do, and it's something I've been thinking about for a while.

Right now this is definitely in very early beta, so currently it's only available for MacOS and Linux. Hopefully this version gets the idea across and is useful for someone.

Thanks for checking it out!

[1] - https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-...



I think you shouldn't use autotool as a name. There is better known autotool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Autotools


Yeah, I'll likely update the name later. It doesn't currently really matter though - and it's really difficult to come up with a name for this that isn't lame sounding.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: