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mackmcconnell | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What tools do you use to automate your business?

I've been a loyal user of Mailparser for years. They provide an email address where you can send any email (tracking, invoice, etc..) and it extracts data based on pre-defined rules.

Then, you use Zapier to do almost anything with that data: send it to a google sheet, use that info to trigger an email to your customer, etc... The possibilities are endless.

My favorite use case was to use it for tracking emails sent out to our customers. We would have fedex-generated emails from our 3PL sent to a @mailparser address, which strips relevant info from the email, sends it to our Sendgrid account, re-skins the email in our format and sends it along to the customer as us. Won't bore you with the details, but we had a unique challenge that required something like this.

mackmcconnell | 13 years ago | on: Contextinator: Divide your web browsing into projects

I think this is a super realistic way to approach project management in when we're using a bunch of different services, all in different tabs in a browser.

I use Evernote to do the task management that the Contextinator Home Page gives you and I have a shortcut to open up all my project-relevant tabs quickly in a browser. It's a pretty similar setup, and a bit less elegant but it does the trick for me. If the task-management side of Contextinator looked a bit more like Evernote (tags, sharing, etc...) I think it would be even better.

That being said, I think it's a super cool way to manage projects. Keep it up _ankit_!

mackmcconnell | 13 years ago | on: The CSS Trashman

I have no problem waiting if the thing actually works and will clean up my css. After implementing the new styles, is it looking just as good?
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