An alternative to Zapier for bulk actions on your own Database

Automating jobs tangential to your business will give you the bandwidth to focus on the core product. These tangential jobs may involve frequent communication with your users, writing tedious jobs for deleting or uploading data, an interface for team members to upload images in an S3 bucket, etc.

Now, these jobs are not core to the product but are necessary for a business. Ask yourself, if this is a good investment of your developer's time and energy in building these workflows and Cron jobs.

Wouldn't it be awesome if someone else can do these tasks so the team can focus on the core product?

Introducing you to Microbots, where you can make hundreds of workflows on your own database without writing a single line of code. Imagine the time and energy that you are saving!

Here are a few examples of these workflows could be:

1. Sending user communication via Email, SMS, Whatsapp, etc. using your own data
2. Periodical deletion or upload of data in the database

... and many more!

Let us discuss each of the mentioned workflows in detail if these have to run from your own database.

User Communication

Communicating with your users ensures better retention. Now, that does not mean spamming your users with marketing chants but personalized communication every now and then. This could be as simple as "We think creating Heatmaps will be useful for you but I don't think you are using it now. Why don't you go here and make one!".  

How are you doing it now?

1. Asking your developers to write Cron jobs for sending weekly reports, payment reminder emails, free trial expiration, etc?
2. Using a 3rd party tool and paying money per subscriber for replicating the data that you already have?  

Whether you are doing it via Method 1 or Method 2, you end up wasting money, resources, or both.

How you can do it with Microbots?

Microbots give you a simple UI to build these communication flows. The steps are pretty simple and can be done by Microbots interface without needing any developer's effort from your team.

The steps are simple:

1. Connect with your database and Email Service API Provider
2. Create a segment or set up rules to identify users
3. Choose a schedule or frequency at which you would like to run the communication flow.  

Delete or Upload data periodically

Every business has data dumps that they want to periodically delete from their own database and also sometimes they want to upload it to an S3 bucket or Google Cloud Storage, etc. Each and every team is supposed to write such Cron jobs that are tedious, bulky, and repetitive.  

How are you doing it now?

Currently, someone from the team is responsible for writing as well as maintaining these Cron jobs. The code becomes bulky over time and it is hard to maintain if the person responsible for this moves from the company.

It should not be so hard, right? I think most of the developers would agree with me on this.

How can you do it via Microbots?

Again, Microbots give you a simple UI to build, maintain and schedule these Cron jobs saving your developers time and effort.

The steps are simple:

1. Connect with your database
2. Build a query for data that you want to delete or upload
3. If upload, connect to an S3 bucket, etc
4. Choose a schedule at which you wish to upload or delete your data

Do you have use cases where you want to do certain Database operations and do not want to write code for it? Drop them in our comment box and Microbots will make them happen!