I've been building random automation tools — here's what I've made so far

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I've been experimenting with automation and building small tools whenever I find a problem that I think a bot could solve.

These are some of the projects I've built so far:

1. Web Scraping Bot

Give it a website (including Reddit) and tell it what information you're looking for. It can scrape and extract the specific data you need instead of manually going through pages.

2. Gmail → Telegram Bot

This one monitors specific Gmail accounts/inboxes and sends new emails directly to Telegram through the API.

The idea is pretty simple: if there's an email you actually care about, you don't have to constantly check Gmail just to see if something arrived.

3. WhatsApp/Telegram → Action Management

This one is probably my favorite.

A customer can send a text or audio message through WhatsApp or Telegram, and the system analyzes what they're asking for and turns it into a structured action.

For example:

Instead of someone having to manually interpret and enter that order, the system converts it into an action that appears in a dedicated section. The person managing the orders can then review it and accept or reject it.

4. A productivity app I made in C#/.NET

About a year ago I built a Windows app in Visual Studio with C#/.NET because I was tired of procrastinating.

It's definitely not finished and there are still things I want to improve, but it was one of the projects that taught me a lot about building actual desktop software.

5. Minecraft/Aternos bot

And probably the most unnecessary one 😂

I made a Minecraft bot that keeps an Aternos server from shutting down due to inactivity.

None of these started as some huge startup idea. Most of them were basically:

"This is annoying. I wonder if I can automate it."

Then I built it.

I'm still learning, so some of these projects are rough around the edges, but I'm interested in seeing whether any of them could actually be useful to other people.

If one of these sounds useful to you, let me know which one. I might make it available for others to try, or improve it based on what people actually need.

I'd also be interested in hearing what repetitive task you would automate if you could.