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bdcravensyesterday at 9:46 PM2 repliesview on HN

Every time I've sat down to consider how it could be useful, I can't think of anything that I couldn't build as a series of cron jobs and Playwright scripts. (even using Claude Code to do the heavy lifting at first, but then the tokens are spent and I don't have ongoing cost)

I can only guess it's really not for "us", but rather for those who aren't afraid of technology but aren't really engineers.


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snyphertoday at 4:00 AM

>series of cron jobs and Playwright scripts

This is approximately the Dropbox reply.

>I can only guess it's really not for "us"

Exactly correct.

enochtheredtoday at 3:26 AM

I’ve built a few recurring tasks with an OpenClaw. It’s fun to sit on the sofa and task it. That said, everything I’ve built with it I’ve realised would work better as a script.