[HN Gopher] Automatio - Visual Automated Extraction Tool
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Automatio - Visual Automated Extraction Tool
Author : h1fra
Score : 90 points
Date : 2021-02-23 17:23 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (automatio.co)
(TXT) w3m dump (automatio.co)
| jelenajjo wrote:
| I think that the integration with the Airtable is gonna be great!
| monkeydust wrote:
| Looks good. Would definatley suggest a few shorter videos to
| showcase the power of the tool (3 min each). Would start by
| showing the end result, then work backwards explaining how the
| tool made it happen. Good luck.
| vladsanchez wrote:
| Shut Up and Take My Money!!! Sleek, intuitive, valuable. Congrats
| @kinderjaje and team!
| slingnow wrote:
| I have a hard time reading this website with the amount of text
| fading and/or sliding in at all times as I scroll. I immediately
| closed it even though the product itself was interesting.
|
| The <blink> tag was removed from HTML for a reason, but here we
| are in 2021 with websites that are effectively full of the modern
| version of it.
| flying_sheep wrote:
| I am always looking such tools :) this looks great. But may I
| know is there any pricing plan?
| kinderjaje wrote:
| Glad you think that, thank you!
|
| The pricing plan is hidden behind few steps in the funnel
| process (sorry :D). Once you fill short form on homepage, you
| will get follow up email with another form which takes less
| then 3 minutes to fill. After that you will get confirmation
| with EA page with a pricing.
|
| As I mentioned in other comment, it's because we are looking to
| work with fewer serious customers, who can afford our EA
| package.
|
| There are two packages $1k (Pro) and $2k (Expert) for a year,
| where Expert package gives 50% LTD (life time discount).
| monstersinF wrote:
| Is there assistance if a customer is running into issues?
| _joel wrote:
| The way the website loads (on firefox here) is very distracting,
| the animations slide ins add nothing for me, personally.
| kinderjaje wrote:
| Sorry that you had bad UX there. I got reported by couple of
| people before that animations is bit overkill.
|
| Thanks for the feedback, will definitely have in mind in next
| homepage update.
| anotheryou wrote:
| Looks amazing. How legal is using it?
| kinderjaje wrote:
| Thanks. Actually it's much more then what is shown on the
| homepage, it's need some update.
|
| Regarding legality, it's a tool which come with responsibility
| from the user itself. I often compare Automatio with a knife,
| where it can be used as a tool to help you do the things, or to
| make a damage.
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| godsplan1 wrote:
| The product looks very clean and intuitive .. Nice job! I read
| about the pricing in another comment ( $1k and $2K ) , I can
| certainly see the utility for the price.
|
| I had one question, you mentioned on the website that you handle
| re-captcha also, do you guarantee a 100% handling of re-captchas
| or is there a success rate / cooling period or something similar
| ?
| kinderjaje wrote:
| Omg HN front page ^^. @h1fra thanks for sharing it bro!
|
| I just sent a newsletter to all Automatio subscribers that our
| Early Adopter program is open and while I was watching analytics
| I saw traffic coming from HN. I was "oh sh*t". My plan was to
| submit Automatio on Show HN when we fully release it to the
| public. But what the heck, sometimes best things happens when it
| doesn't go with a plan.
|
| Anyway, Automatio is project my team and I developing for last 4
| years. It's totally bootstrapped, and it's hard but rewarding
| journey. Don't mind bad written copy on the website, a lot of
| stuff could be improved. But even we have ~5 developers,
| sometimes I feel like "one man army", doing various things from
| designing Automatio logic, features, testing, UI/UX,
| promotions/growth, talking with customers, accounting, legal, and
| everything which is necessary to move forward. Of course I have
| lot of technical support my Co-founder Taher and girlfriend
| Jelena.
|
| I gonna quote myself and the text I written already on the EA
| page:
|
| "Wish I had Automatio when I was starting my digital journey ~15
| years ago. I was always in need for web automation. Another bot
| that will save me from boring, repetitive manual work. I started
| building Automatio to solve my problems, not to "validate"
| another startup idea. There is nothing to validate. Automatio is
| the future happening right now, and you should be part of it,
| because it will bring You tremendous benefits, in whatever field
| you are in this digital age"
|
| My goal is to build most powerful no-code web automation (not
| just another web scraper) tool which will give ability to anyone
| to automate theoretically anything on the web, without writing
| single line of code.
|
| Hope you share my vision as well.
|
| Peace
| harikb wrote:
| Your signup page asks for a certain $$ commitment. Do we need
| to pay the yearly fee right away. I would prefer to try it
| first.
| kinderjaje wrote:
| Since Automatio is bootstrapped project and in alpha phase,
| we are looking to work with customers who really find it
| useful and who can afford yearly package. It might be pricey
| for independent makers or small businesses, but in around ~2
| months we will launch fully publicly so anyone can subscribe
| on monthly basis.
| anotheryou wrote:
| Could there be a (slightly more expensive) purely usage
| based pricing?
|
| It would be amazing for little tinker projects to just pull
| some values from the web here and there.
| h1fra wrote:
| Been really impressed by the video, even though I did not
| tested it yet seems like a really good project. Congrats on
| shipping !
| kinderjaje wrote:
| Thanks buddy, what you saw on video is something I recorded
| for one of my friend, showcasing Automatio. And then another
| friend suggested to put that on the homepage, because he said
| he could feel my energy, even its 35 min long video.
|
| And yeah, that video 9 months old, and we did a lot of things
| on Automatio till then. It's much more powerful.
|
| Tnx again for deciding to share the link, u made our
| day/night here!
|
| Peace
| thenikola87 wrote:
| I like the website and the prospect of the tool looks amasing.
| Really good work. What are your next plans?
| kinderjaje wrote:
| Tnx man! Next plan is to collect dozen paying customers which
| will give us fuel to run for next few months without worrying
| about $$. Meanwhile, we gonna improve existing version of and
| build new features and tools that will make Automatio even more
| powerful.
|
| Also more native integrations, with tools like Zapier,
| Integromat, etc is on the top of our roadmap.
| nodesocket wrote:
| First, amazing job and congratulations on launching.
|
| I've founded a handful of startups myself (most failed) and
| was a little shocked and worried that y'all been at it for
| four years and now just "trying to collect a dozen
| customers."
|
| Four years in, with a product as well designed and engineered
| as this looks should have more customers and MRR/ARR. Have
| you just been heads down the last four years building and
| engineering? I can advise you from personal experience that's
| a mistake.
|
| Ramp up the sales and marketing dials, and make sure people
| really want and more importantly really will pay for what you
| are building.
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