Ask HN: How do you automate recurring workflows without writing glue code?

2 kimzhang 1 7/17/2025, 6:56:56 AM

We were relying on Zapier and cron jobs to keep up with task generation and reminders, and it got tedious to maintain. With Monday Dev, we've set up native automation like “create task weekly,” or if status unchanged for X days, ping someone. It’s handled our QA cadences and compliance reviews without adding another layer of tooling. Wondering what others are doing here without scripts?

Comments (1)

zknill · 10h ago

This reads like a bit of a smell. I'd be pretty suspicious of why you have tasks and reminders in the first place. The question also reads like the volume of these tasks and reminders is large enough to be a problem.

You should check out the "toil" section of the Google SRE book

https://sre.google/sre-book/eliminating-toil/

> If a human operator needs to touch your system during normal operations, you have a bug.