Dundee Founders Collective needed to surface upcoming Dundee and Scottish ecosystem events to its community every single week. Done by hand, collating that list was a steady, thankless time sink.
An Airtable database captured the events; a scheduled automation compiled them each week into a formatted, ready-to-paste digest and emailed it to me and the person posting to LinkedIn.
Dozens of editions shipped on autopilot across the life of the programme. A recurring manual job became a scheduled one that nobody had to think about.
Automating the boring 80% is worth more than chasing the clever 20%. For anything that has to run every week, reliability beats sophistication.