The best automation tools in 2024
What are automation tools?
Automation tools are designed to streamline repetitive or manual tasks by executing them automatically, allowing teams to focus on more strategic work. These tools can handle workflows such as data entry, notifications, scheduling, or system integrations across different platforms. By eliminating human error and reducing the time spent on routine tasks, automation tools enhance operational efficiency, improve accuracy, and help scale processes with minimal effort. They are crucial for optimizing productivity in both small teams and large enterprises.
Zapier
—Connect your apps and automate workflows- Overview
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Easy automation for busy people. Zapier empowers you to automate your work across 5,000+ apps—so you can move forward, faster.
Make
—Design, build and automate your work- Overview
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A visual platform for anyone to design, build, and automate anything—from tasks and workflows to apps and systems—without coding.
MindPal
—Build AI multi-agent workflows to automate any tasks- Overview
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Build your AI workforce of agents and multi-agent workflows to automate thousands of tasks, as internal productivity tools, as lead magnets for your website, or for monetization. 1,500+ (and counting) business owners, entrepreneurs, marketers, and educators have been thriving with MindPal!
Raycast
—Application launcher and productivity software- Overview
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A blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate, share common links, and much more.
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Used by 180K+ global customers, monday.com is a customizable and easy-to-use work management platform that maximizes efficiency, boosts collaboration, and increases productivity. Easily plan, centralize, streamline, and automate your teams' work and projects by utilizing powerful features such as no-code automations, real-time notifications, customizable dashboards, 200+ pre-made templates, multiple views, 72+ integrations, and more. From idea to execution, manage it all on one robust platform.
GitHub Actions
—Automate your workflow from idea to production- Overview
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GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want.
TensorFlow
—An end-to-end open source machine learning platform- Overview
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TensorFlow is a fast, flexible, and scalable open-source machine learning library for research and production.
npm
—A package manager for javascript- Overview
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Relied upon by more than 11 million developers worldwide, npm is committed to making JavaScript development elegant, productive, and safe. The free npm Registry has become the center of JavaScript code sharing, and with more than one million packages, the largest software registry in the world. Our other tools and services take the Registry, and the work you do around it, to the next level.
Wordware (YC S24)
—web-hosted IDE for building AI agents- Overview
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Wordware is a web-hosted IDE for LLM orchestration, enabling cross-functional teams to build AI applications. Serving as an LLM backend, it functions like a new programming language, based on English but merging concepts like loops, logic, and function calling
Flightcontrol
—Developer-first AWS Infrastructure- Overview
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Designed for teams that want the benefits & reliability of AWS without hiring devops