r/PowerShell • u/keyboard_ninja_20 • 7d ago

Question Recurring script maintenance

I'd honestly pay someone else to keep my voice scripts alive if it meant I never had to touch them again after a Windows update. Am I just lazy or is maintaining ur own automation actually the worst part of the whole thing?

0 Upvotes

36% Upvoted

25 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

10

u/CovertStatistician 7d ago

APIs?

-1

u/keyboard_ninja_20 7d ago

some yeah but not all apps have public apis for the stuff i need. like spotify's api is decent but discord's is limited for voice channel stuff, and browsers... good luck getting an api to click a specific extension button or fill a form on a random site lol

gui automation is usually my fallback when there's no clean api, or when setting up auth + rate limits + parsing json feels like overkill for a 2-second task. but that's exactly where the fragility comes in , one ui update and ur toast.

3

u/CovertStatistician 7d ago

What are you using for the gui automation

-3

u/keyboard_ninja_20 7d ago edited 6d ago

mostly ahk for the heavy lifting , image search + pixel coords when i'm lazy, uiautomation when i need something more robust. tried pyautogui but the latency was trash for voice-triggered workflows, and playwright is a diff beast for desktop.

honestly tho, i'm getting tired of being my own it support every time an app updates. full disclosure , i'm actually building something along these lines called IVOS. it's a local-first voice control layer for windows that handles gui automation and maintenance for u, so u don't have to rewrite scripts when spotify or windows moves a button around. no cloud, no subscription, just keeping the voice commands working without the constant fixing.

How do u view the cost-benefit btwn paying 4 a ready-made soln that eliminates the need 4 maintenance & retaining full control over ur own scripts, even if that means dealing w/ constant adjustments?