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Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?

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7 hours ago

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I'm researching pain points around manual workflows that haven't been automated yet.

Specifically looking for tasks where: - You do the same thing 5+ times a week - You've looked for a tool but nothing good exists - You'd pay $10-20/month if something just worked

What's yours? Curious to hear both technical and non-technical answers.

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late_night_fix

2 minutes ago

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I still manually synthesize information from multiple sources(docs,blog posts and treads).LLM help with sumaries but merge into a reliable decision step is very human-heavy.

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fieldsate

9 minutes ago

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preparing for a trip , travel, lots of moving pices like itenary , packing , tickets , IDs , cabs .no sync .huge mess

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itsyounish

1 hour ago

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I'd say if you could automate product sheet details with detailed image recognition would be really interesting

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austin-cheney

5 hours ago

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I have nothing that fits that criteria exactly. I still write tests for test automation manually and that should be automated but new tests are only needed as features are created or retired, which is irregular and infrequent.

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SyntaxErrorist

5 hours ago

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Tried a few workflow tools but most either break often or need more setup than the task itself. Would easily pay for something that just quietly handled all of that in the background.

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lishunsheng

2 hours ago

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"Curious what kind of workflows you're talking about – are these dev-related tasks or more general business processes?"

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pants2

4 hours ago

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Folding my laundry

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aimiraclemag

1 hour ago

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Ahahaha, good point! Some automation on that field would be precious.