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arafsheikhon Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?

Thanks for the suggestion. Looks promising. Although it's not as polished as Tableau.

arafsheikhon Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?

Yeah, I've used it in the past. Problem is my home server is a tiny RPi Zero and Metabase is too heavy for it. I'll look into running it on AWS/DO if I absolutely have to.

arafsheikhon Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?

Send grid retires sending the message for 3 days incase it doesn't get a 200 from my server.

To capture errors on my server I use PaperTrail's email alerts.

arafsheikhon Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?

Tableau Public is the one that makes me uncomfortable. If this dashboard continues to work well and be useful I'll look into self-hosted alternatives.

arafsheikhon Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?

Last week I built an automated expense tracking dashboard on Tableau using SendGrid and Google Sheets. I use a Gmail filter to forward my credit card transaction emails to an Inbound Parser setup on SendGrid, which makes a POST call to my home server with the content of the email. A regex then captures the details from the POST body and pushes them to a Google Sheet.

Next I use Tableau Public to read data from Google Sheets and publish a dashboard to Tableau Public Online. Tableau Public automatically refreshes data on the server side from Google Sheets every few hours.

The good part is that all of this can run automatically without any manual intervention whatsoever and I get a beautiful near real-time dashboard for my daily expenses that I can access from anywhere (dashboard is publicly accessible but hidden).

arafsheikhon Vaping Illnesses Are Linked to Vitamin E Acetate, CDC Says

I believe it was this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20915873

arafsheikhon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2017)

SEEKING WORK

Location: New Delhi, India

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Python, Android, Ruby

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheikharaf/

Email: arafsheikh+whoishiring@gmail.com

arafsheikhon GitHub.com down?

Back online here in India.

arafsheikhon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2017)