AutomationTown

"Well that was a great chat bot experience!" Said no one ever... This week, we launch a call-in radio show in AutomationTown, talk through a few chat bot building tools, discuss when to use a chat bo…

Chad & Jason sit down with AutomationTown resident Elizabeth Ruh to talk through her experience automating a labor-intensive process in her business, and how it helped her get back to doing good. A f…

6 million years of technological development has brought human kind to... scrolling feeds. Feeds of fart jokes, life hacks and twerking.

Is this peak human experience? Or the beginning of the end? Thi…

[klaxon] Your attention span is under assault, and our world's brightest minds have been tasked with distracting you.

Chad & Jason call an emergency meeting to take back control of our mobile notifica…

What do you do when you need to generate a whole bunch of documents?

Chad & Jason talk through his struggles bulk-processing flyers for his dog walking business, how old-thymey mail merge has evolved …

Sometimes the old ways are the best. This isn't one of those times, but in this case we didn't have a choice. We talk through how to put a new-age spin on an old-age technology, and built automations…

Did someone just microwave fish in the office lounge? What about copying you on that passive aggressive email to the VP? Don't worry, this week we've got you covered with tips on how to automate the …

We're talking about loss. Specifically, not being able to find things and whether there's a way to get them back. Along the way we learn about infrared, hubs, and how to build an automation for Chad'…

What do you do when a website doesn't offer a connector for the info you want? Hop a trolley down to the AutomationTown coworking space as Chad & Jason run through methods to scrape the goods you nee…

Someone ever tell you to check out Zapier? Happens all the time. Why? Because they're freakin great, that's why. In this episode we cover why it's a must-have tool to know, how we use it and some adv…

Never have to say, "Go away, I'm in a meeting" again! On this episode, we take some LED lights and turn them red when we don't want to be bothered - all automatically. 

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The internet. It's all around us. Today, we pull back the curtain on how to connect data through APIs. The thing that makes the thing you put into one thing, go into the other thing that you want it …

Ever receive an email and wish it automatically did a thing? Maybe combine the email body and attachments into one PDF or kick off an internal process. On today's episode of AutomationTown, we get in…

Nocode is a silly word. It gets the point across, sort of, but why is it a term we should care about? What's the real win here and why should you care? We cover that and a share a few stories on this…

How often do you make time for handwritten letters? On today's episode, we dive into the science of creating, approving and mailing real handwritten cards (without ever touching them). At the end we …

Ever wish you could automate sending snail mail without touching a piece of paper? On today's episode, we dive into generating, connecting and snail mailing vulgar bird pics. At the end we get into p…

Imagine this...you're at your job and it's time to do that one thing you absolutely despise. So you start working on it and immediately start wishing the computer would do it for you.

Like, "Why do I …