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Web Automation without coding and in just few clicks. You can mine data, scrape websites, build charts widgets and much more.

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State of Automatio

Automatio/General · April 22, 2019 at 7:21pm

State of Automatio

Automatio / General · April 22, 2019 at 7:21pm

Hello everyone.

After some exchanges with @kinderminder, I learned that the Automatio project will go through a complete rewrite to make it production ready. So I have a few questions about this:

In terms of resources, how much money would we need to start and then launch such a project? I assume it's going to be a ballpark figure, it's alright ;)
What would use the money for? Developers time? Marketing?
Which technology, outside of Puppeteer, Node.JS , will be used for this project? Is it still up for debate?
How many people are ready to work for the rewrite at this moment?

Well, for now, that's all I have :D

It really looks like an interesting and challenging project. I'm really looking forward to start working on it.

Cheers!

April 23, 2019 at 11:42pm

Md. Abu Taher@entrptaher

Team

11:42pm

Hi, I worked on the prototype. Recently we prepared a through document outlining the points that would answer all these questions.

11:46pm

It depends, but we estimate the will be there or four phases and starting just the first phase will cost 8-10k or something closer.

11:47pm

Yes, mostly developer times and resources.

11:49pm

The tech stack will not change. We will mostly use puppeteer, node.JS, bull queue, redis, mongo etc. for scraping part.

Stefan Smiljkovic@kinderminder

Team

11:50pm

Md. Abu Taher@entrptaher

It depends, but we estimate the will be there or four phases and starting just the first phase will cost 8-10k or something closer.

Yeah, around $10k for basic version without all features we currently have. Just MVP to lunch for 2000+ subscribers waiting for it.

11:51pm

And it will be used all for development.

11:51pm

We don't need budget for marketing currently, since we already have people waiting for lunch, and plus we can grow organically easy, like we did so far

April 24, 2019 at 1:55pm

Damien Cosset@damien-cosset

1:55pm

Md. Abu Taher@entrptaher

It depends, but we estimate the will be there or four phases and starting just the first phase will cost 8-10k or something closer.

Do you have a strategy to raise that kind of money? Some GofundMe or some crowdfunding tool? I would personally be okay to get started as a volunteer. If there are some aspects I could take care of in the mean time... Just ask away, I do have some free time ;)

April 27, 2019 at 11:51am

Stefan Smiljkovic@kinderminder

Team

11:51am

Damien Cosset@damien-cosset

There is potential investor, which wanna invest ~ $10k for phase 1 development.

11:52am

However, I was also thinking about crowd funding on Kickstart, since we have ~2k subscribers and could reach more people

11:52am

Not sure how that would go honestly, but I am interested to try it out.

11:53am

However, even crowdfunding would require some investment in terms of creating a good looking video showing the prototype

June 3, 2019 at 4:15am

noincomedev@noincomedev

4:15am

Md. Abu Taher@entrptaher

The tech stack will not change. We will mostly use puppeteer, node.JS, bull queue, redis, mongo etc. for scraping part.

Hey I am fullstack meteor dev looking for opportunities!! I know react and material ui! Also apollo! Even I have done an 'url to screenshot app' with meteor and puppeteer!

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