Show HN: Autotool – open-source gradual automation(github.com)

Show HN: Autotool – open-source gradual automation

https://github.com/aklos/autotool

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-...

2 comments

hotdox4 anni fa

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

prohobo4 anni fa

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.