You should really stop using Zapier or Make. Deploying Python scripts on Replit takes less than 5 min and is cheaper. Just describe what you want to automate and AI takes care of writing the code. For example, I created an automation that merges all the PDFs in a... folder on Drive into a single file. All that's left to do is: - Copy/paste the API key - Click on "Run" And you're done! In this case I used Aider Chat (free and open source), but you can also use Replit Agent.show more

you're so right! I save hundreds a month by ditching my SaaS and building my own automations. here's an AI assistant that lives in my email inbox and extracts receipt / invoices data and populates my expense sheets! took me maybe 30 mins to build!

Love the idea! Looks like a huge time saver.

This is cool!!! Some helpful notes. If you upgrade to Replit Core: - You can use Claude 3.5 directly in our AI pane - You can deploy to a “Scheduled” deployment which will run at whatever frequency you want Plus, you can use the “Secrets” pane to store API keys. Great job!

Didn't know about the 2nd feature, thanks for the update! Will 100% upgrade to Core. Agent justifies it all by itself.

How does it keep running at scheduled intervals? Do you run it as a cron job or something, Paul?

There are 2 ways to do this I think: - Hard code it like in the video and just deploy the app with Replit - With Replit Core you can deploy whenever you want at whatever frequency you want (learned this yesterday from Jeff)

This is super helpful! Thanks for sharing

My pleasure, Amira. Thanks for watching!

Really cool tutorial but you are wrong about @zapier The future is more people using BOTH

That's what I thought as well a few weeks ago. But given how fast AI coding is improving I don't think that's the case for Zapier (in its current form).