[ubot ideas] Some Things I Use Ubot For

[Kev 69]

Here are a few things I use ubot studio for that save me time and money:

 

1. Create Paypal buttons on the fly

 Say a customer wants a new subscription plan to one of my services, or wants to purchase something that I haven't set up a payment link for - I use ubot to create these buttons for me as I need them. Either one time, subscription, monthly, weekly etc. Saves logging in every time and with a list of "thank you pages" to select, I can always make sure they are sent the payment link that will also send them to the right thank you page upon purchase.

 

2. Auto update a Facebook page each day regarding the weather for a particular area (easy one really). Bot goes to Google, types "weather TOWNNAME" and then scrapes the result. Then bot logs into Facebook (mobile user agent) and posts the weather update).

 

3. Scrapes a list of free kindle books (love this one).

 

4. I have a mobile data plan for some projects I work on that require a separate connection. It's important for me to know how close to my monthly data allowance I get. So, I have a bot that checks this for me a few times each day. If it gets within one GB of the limit it will send me an SMS (see this guide http://www.internetmoney.ie/send-an-sms-when-a-web-page-is-loaded/). Obviously I don't want it to send me an SMS each time it checks whilst it's within 1GB of my limit, so at the start it checks a file on my computer for the status (go or stop). If it gets to within 1GB it will change the Go to Stop so the next time it starts it won't send an SMS. I manually set the file (it's a dropbox file) and as it's rare that I get that close to the limit it's not an issue. At $2 per MB over my allowance you can bet ubot will save my ass if I go 100mb youtube video over my limit!

 

5. I use automated webinars. One inconvenience with the platform I use is that it doesn't allow for automatic changing between webinars. For example I want to have a "monday" webinar play on Monday and Tuesday on Tuesday etc... but there's no automatic way to change out the webinars inside the platform I use. So, ubot checks the time and date from timeanddate.com and sees the day of the week. It then logs into the webinar platform and looks for a webinar called "Friday" (for example) and changes that webinar for that day. This is cool as it allows me to start my webinars like "Hi and welcome to Friday's webinar" and not need to manually change these things.

 

So this is just a few of the things I use ubot for. You don't need to use ubot bots to make money. Sometimes they can SAVE you money, too.

 

What other ways do you use ubot for that isn't money generating?

 

 

[jamesfar 15]

1. Create Paypal buttons on the fly

>>> Does it means your bot login to your paypal account to create the button? Never got limited or blocked by paypal? Are you using browser or http plugin for this task Kev ?

[Kev 69]

It logs in via the browser. Never had a problem at all.

[malefic 48]

Some simple but cracking ideas there mate - thanks for sharing!