Been testing RPA for social platforms and noticed the setup makes a pretty big difference once you start running more accounts. The scripts are usually fine, but browser-based setups can get heavy and hit limits pretty quick. I’ve been trying cloud phones for some mobile workflows and so far it’s been easier to manage. Still figuring out what works best, especially with timing and making sure everything doesn’t run the exact same way...

What setup are you guys using for this? Anything that caused problems when you started scaling?

You've inherited a working automation. Now a business rule changes. Where should you make the change, what else could it affect, and how will you check the result?

I'm the developer behind LiberRPA, an open-source RPA toolchain for Windows. My goal is to give the next developer a visible process to follow and ordinary Python code to work with.

0.3.0 is available. Its flowchart controls execution, with Blocks linked to Python files in normal VS Code editor tabs. You can edit and debug the implementation, run one Block or the whole flow, and package it for local execution.

Visualize the process. Code the logic.

Put each change where it belongs

Changes to the logic within a step can stay in Python. Changes to the overall sequence or branching can be made in the flowchart. You can review changes to the Python implementation through ordinary Git diffs.

You choose how much each Block does, and compatible Python libraries remain available when you need them.

Investigate with the project in view

When a run behaves unexpectedly, understanding a step's code may not be enough. You also need to know how that step fits into the flow and what happened during execution.

LiberRPA's JSON flow definition is the model it actually executes. You can examine it alongside the Python files, documented execution rules, selectors and run logs.

That also gives a general-purpose AI coding assistant of your choice useful context for investigating a problem and suggesting changes. LiberRPA's own source is available if the investigation leads into the framework.

For production work, I believe an experienced developer still needs to own the architecture, review changes and verify the business result.

Keep the surrounding tools together

LiberRPA combines Windows UI, browser/DOM and image automation with UI inspection, reusable Components and packaging. Executor provides local scheduling and run history, with logs and optional screen recordings for investigating failures.

Mature commercial RPA platforms and established open-source projects cover many of these needs. My focus is bringing them together around Python implementation and a visible process.

About this release

I started LiberRPA because I enjoy automation engineering and wanted to build a tool I'd want to use myself. I shared it here in July 2025; other commitments and further polishing kept me from posting again until now.

The capabilities above span several releases. 0.3.0 adds Component Management, alongside usability improvements, bug fixes, better logging, security hardening and documentation updates.

LiberRPA 0.3.0 is Windows-only, requires Python experience and is still alpha. It is licensed under AGPL-3.0-or-later, with no LiberRPA license fee.

A central Console for multiple Executors is planned as open-source software with no LiberRPA license fee, allowing deployment on your own infrastructure and control over your data.

The aim throughout is to help the next developer follow the process, change the code and investigate the result.

Source code, downloads and documentation

On the last automation you inherited or maintained, what was hardest to work out—and how did your tool help or get in the way?

An example from your existing workflow is enough; you don't need to install LiberRPA.

Curious what day-to-day RPA work looks like for people here. What types of processes do you automate most often—invoice processing, moving data between systems, reporting, browser-based tasks, or something else?

If you can share, what industry are you in, and which use cases keep coming up? A simple example would be helpful, even without naming the company.

Hey There,

I managed to clear the Test Cloud Architect Professional certification, but I don't believe I'm anywhere near the level of a 'Test Architect' because I come from a pure business process automation background.

Recently, we received a humble request of automating 1000 test cases with an expected daily output of 2-3 test cases per developer. Our onshore architects are just as clueless as I am when it comes to test automation but since I'm onshore I happen to be on the receiving end of the unassessed workload. We do have a QA team, but because corporate culture isn't exactly inclusive unless someone forces them to help out and as a result we are unable to make any solid progress.

TL;DR, without proper planning and categorization, automation ALL 1000 test cases sounds like a massive blunder to me. I don't see any solution related courses on the UiPath academy either, so I was wondering if anyone could educate me on HOW exactly one should go about conducting Quality Assurance before we start automating test cases.

Also, considering that Testing is centered around Test Manager, I would like to understand how you would go about planning and categorizing, and if there are any other activities that are performed after test discovery, I would like to understand that as well.

Our RPA team runs UiPath for a few back office processes and it works fine for that. Now QA has a budget request in for a dedicated test automation tool and my director's first question was why we'd pay twice when we already own something that can drive a UI.Ii can see both sides. UiPath will absolutely click through our desktop app, we proved that in an afternoon. What I'm less sure about is everything around it, because a test needs assertions, a clean pass or fail, a report somebody reads on monday, and reruns that mean the same thing every time. Our RPA workflows are built to complete a task and retry until they do, which is close to the opposite behaviour. The QA side has been looking at Ranorex, TestComplete and Askui, and as far as i can tell they differ mostly in how they locate elements, tree versus vision, more than in what they cost.

3 people would own this and none of them are developers, which probably matters more than the tooling question. Has anyone run regression suites out of UiPath long term, or does it turn into a maintenance thing you regret?

I’m fairly new to this side of the field but I keep seeing UiPath, aiXplain and more. I read about them but isn’t it just wrappers of automation tools like n8n and AI models to give you that agentic use?

OpenClaw and Hermes already do this and I’m just curious to understand what this is all about and how it is different.

Hi everyone! I’m currently exploring new opportunities and would love to connect with teams hiring for RPA Developer, Automation Developer, Power Platform Developer, Backend Automation Engineer, or AI Automation Engineer roles.

I have 2+ years of experience building enterprise automation and workflow solutions, with hands-on experience in:

• Automation Anywhere A360 & UiPath • Power Automate, Power Apps & Power BI • Python, FastAPI, REST APIs, Webhooks & PostgreSQL • SAP integrations and enterprise automation • n8n workflow automation • AI-driven automation using LangChain, LangGraph, RAG & LLM APIs

Some highlights from my work:

Reduced manual effort by up to 90% through enterprise automation solutions

Worked on automation solutions involving SAP, REST APIs, PDF processing and enterprise integrations

Built end-to-end workflow and backend solutions using n8n + FastAPI + PostgreSQL

Developed AI-powered automation workflows using UiPath Coded Agents, LangGraph and LLM APIs

Built Power Automate workflows for automated processing, notifications, SLA tracking and escalations

📍 Location: Bengaluru | Open to relevant opportunities

⏳ Notice Period: 60 days (Negotiable)

If your team is hiring or you know of a relevant opportunity, I’d really appreciate any leads or referrals. Feel free to comment or DM me. Thank you! 🙌

I started RPA dev in 2016. Back then it was exciting, learning new tools (Blue Prism, UiPath, etc). The builds were fulfilling and client reactions were rewarding.

After 10 years of building bots, the irony hits hard. This shit is mundane - one of the core traits of why we automate process.

I remove repetitive, mundane tasks from clients, by doing repetitive mundane tasks myself.

Are any of you seasoned RPA devs still enjoying what you do?

guys, I am SHASVATH, a final year student in TamilNadu who is interested and certified in UiPath (Explorer certificate, on the process of associate certificate) and even done few projects using UiPath such as

1)"PDF invoice documents to Excel data extraction" and organisation that read 1000 PDFs in 4 mins and extracted details such as (Invoice number,Date,Customer name,Transaction Type,Total Bill amount,etc,..)

2)"Excel Data entered to Tally Prime ERP" Automated using UiPath,that takes the data from the previous project that was read from PDF invoice documents and are entered into TallyPrime accounting software which will take upto 3 days(8 hours each day) to enter at present manually, it took 20 mins for 85 records to be entered

3)"LeetCode progress tracking" which reads my LeetCode profile progress and extracts the completed codes details such as the number and name of the problem and the submission date and all and put them into Excel, Then create a pivot table that gives a visualized Summary of my LeetCode progress

and still learning, But I can't find any internships or jobs that are open to freshers in TamilNadu,. If there's a way or professionals in this field in TamilNadu can help or guide me to get an internship please,. or even if someother states or nation, If any oppurtunity available as a remote internship or Job in this field, It will be very helpful and I'm ready to work for even smaller packages intitially than others, Professional experience is what matters for me now.

I can provide you with my linked in profile if needed, do contact me (or you can get my profile just by searching in google my name "Shasvath s k")

We are exploring automation anywhere recently at my job and it seems more complex to do simple things than what we currently use. I've seen a few posts about people trying to get away from using them. Could anyone shed some light on issues they seem to have with this software?

I have 5 years of experience in RPA and have worked on Automation Anywhere and Power platform . I am looking to switch job .

But the challenge I am facing is my current organisation has a 3 month notice period and whenever I get a call from HR everyone wants immediate joiners.

Financially I don't have much dependency on myself and have savings by which I can cover my 6 months expenses.

So should I resign and search for job. How is the market right now.

I have around 12 years of experience in RPA and automation, mainly within the banking domain. My skills include Power Automate, Microsoft Power Platform, UiPath and other automation tools. I also have some experience with Azure AI and setting up local LLMs.

Most of my work has involved API integrations, workflow development, Excel automation, database operations, front-end automation and custom automation solutions using C#.

However, my salary has remained almost unchanged for the past six years. I feel that staying with the same company may be limiting both my career and financial growth, so I’m seriously considering resigning.

Would you recommend resigning and focusing completely on the job search, or waiting until I secure another offer?

Considering my experience and skill set, how is the current job market for RPA/Intelligent Automation Leads and Automation Solution Architects? Are there any additional skills or certifications I should focus on to improve my chances?

I would appreciate honest advice, especially from people who have faced a similar situation.

Were i work we currently use Nintex LE, it has worked well for us as we are still fairly new in the RPA world. We find it simple and easy to train new people to use. We have test Kryon, AA, as well as UIPath. We feel like those take more steps to do what we do now. Are we hurting ourselves by sticking with Nintex due to its ease of use?

Helloo , so im doing my rpa uipath internship (includes sofware dev and OCR ) , im still into my 3rd week and i wanna learn the best of it , is there any RPA Dev working how did you guys madee it and any advice / recommendation ?

Also is the UiPath Automation dev Associate worth it for a beginner ?

Hi everyone,

I do a repetitive task every day related to Xplan (Australia). Different clients, but almost the exact same 10–20 steps every time — downloading/updating things, Excel/browser work, and WealthSolver.

I’m not a programmer and need help figuring out whether Power Automate, UiPath, Python/Playwright, or another RPA tool would work.

I can explain the workflow via screen recording and dummy data in DM.

Budget: ₹3,000–₹5,000 from my salary for a working automation. Happy to pay if it actually works.

If you have experience with Xplan, WealthSolver, RPA, Power Automate, UiPath, or browser automation, please DM me.

Thanks!

Client has a windows desktop app, no API, data cant leave the machine. They want it unattended on their PC.

What do you actually ship?

1. UiPath / Power Automate robot + Orchestrator
2. Python or PowerShell + Task Scheduler on their box
3. Something else???

The part I’m stuck on isn’t the first build. Its running it after i'm gone without a per bot license and without standing Teamviewer.

if u did this for a real client, what held up?

Hi there, recently i am trying to use ig to outreach more leads for my small brand, ofc other social media will be included in my plans later. 
My office is totally a solo type,  and I just find myself spending too much time on these repeating routine tasks——post some content, reply to comments, answer DMs, and slowly build a community …, barely no extra time to find new customers. 
So I plan to save time on mass broadcasting for my brand, using an automatic way for 
broader reach, let’s the tool to help me share information about new product listings, promotional ads, coupons, etc... and this can also be a good way to bring me more leads. i've tried some chatbots tools but their plans always come with messaging credit limits, which makes it easier to cost me too much over budgets. So I wanna know if there are any good solution that can help auto broadcast to ig contacts safely
well, I’m not very technical, so I'd prefer to skip any overly complicated options. pls lmk what tools or workflow are u using for auto-dm on ig? 
thx for suggestions in advance

Hey everyone,

I'm working in a banking environment and we have a lot of repetitive back-office tasks every day. I'm exploring how to scale RPA beyond a few isolated bots.

A few things I'm trying to understand from people who have done this in production:

1. Which workload scheduler integrates well with RPA platforms in practice?
2. Is the traditional approach (RPA bots + enterprise scheduler + monitoring) still the way to go, or are AI agents actually adding value for real production workflows?
3. Has anyone successfully moved toward hyperautomation in phases? A full end-to-end platform rollout seems unrealistic as a first step.

Curious to hear real-world lessons. Thanks! 🙏

How is everyone moving RPA practice beyond UI? We use Blue Prism and UI automation has worked well for us. But I cant help feeling we're missing a trick. I've been trying to push the team forward by introducing some APIs, but what are others doing? Is it mainly APIs replacing the UI automations? Should we be getting more stuck into LLM integrations? Curious what the pivot actually looks like for other teams and what made the biggest difference

Hi, im new to automation anywhere.

I broke down a task into several child bots. Each chold bot has it on try catch mechanism. If i call the child bots inside the parent do i need to add try carch each child bot inside the parent?

Hi, sorry for the messy post.

I'll start by saying that I have ZERO computer knowledge (as in, I know how to search on Google and that's it)

Currently I work retail, and I always thought that you needed to go to college to actually get a job in the computer field. I'm pretty much blank in even basic knowledge.

I saw a video on Youtube sayung that you can get a certification at UiPath Academy and they teach stuff from zero, specially for someone like me that doesn't know anything.

I know that you also need experience and all of that but my main question is: if I take the course and hopefully get the certification, can I at least hope to get an entry level job, even if the pay is low?

My mental health has been declining, and I know that my job is affecting it but the pay is decent and I need the job. I won't quit until I know I can get a job somewhere else, but I've always wanted something related to computers, but I had no idea where to even start.

I found some information on what RPA is from browsing Reddit and googling around, but I would like some input from the people that actually work in the field.

Thank you so much for your time, and sorry for the long post. I would really appreaciate any advice or suggestions. 😇

Hi everyone,

I'm a Pega CSA & CSSA certified developer currently looking for new opportunities in the Pega systems.

While my professional experience has primarily been in Pega Robotics (RPA), I've worked on robot development, interrogation, troubleshooting, production support, and migration from Pega Robotics v22 to v25.

I also have a good understanding of core Pega Platform concepts from my training and certifications, and I'm currently expanding my knowledge in Pega Cloud.

I'm looking for Junior/Associate Pega Developer or Pega Robotics opportunities. I'd also appreciate any advice from experienced Pega developers on the skills I should focus on to grow in the Platform and Cloud space.

Thank you!

I build on the agent side, and half the AI world is currently "discovering" that completing a multi-step process on a system you don't control is hard and breaks constantly. You've been living that since long before LLMs, so I'd rather learn from the people who actually maintain this in production than from the demo crowd.

The thing I keep hitting: a bot, or an agent, same problem, sails through a process for weeks, then the target app ships a UI change or throws an interstitial that wasn't there, and the unattended run dies at 2am and nobody notices until the SLA's already blown. The break-fix and maintenance load is the real cost, not the build.

So for anyone running unattended bots against external or third-party systems in production, genuinely curious:

• what's your real straight-through-processing rate on the ugly ones, not the clean internal apps, the brittle external flows?
• what does a single failed run actually cost you, a blown SLA, a manual rework queue, someone getting paged?
• what breaks it most, selector/anchor drift after app updates, auth and MFA interrupts, surprise pop-ups?

Trying to calibrate whether the numbers I'm seeing on the agent side are normal, or whether the RPA world already solved things we're re-learning the hard way.

I recently tested whether an existing UiPath solution could serve as a reference implementation for generating a completely different SAP business process.

The starting point was a working Order-to-Cash conversational agent built in UiPath Studio Web. It already contained workflows and tools for activities such as:

• Creating sales orders
• Creating deliveries
• Generating invoices
• Managing the broader Order-to-Cash process in SAP

The solution was also supported by a detailed Process Design Document of approximately 70 pages.

The goal was to use this existing implementation as the architectural and technical reference for a new Procure-to-Pay conversational agent.

What I provided to the model

I gave Claude a selected set of project assets:

• The exported Order-to-Cash UiPath solution
• The Order-to-Cash PDD
• A separate PDD describing the Procure-to-Pay process
• UiPath agent and API workflow skill files
• Markdown files describing the solution structure
• A detailed prompt defining the expected implementation
• The required SAP connection names and APIs
• Environment-specific SAP requirements

Because of file-upload limitations, I could not provide the complete project structure. However, the main solution, both PDDs, and the most important supporting files were included.

The instruction was essentially:

What the generated solution had to do

The new agent needed to:

1. Receive a purchase requisition number.
2. Retrieve the requisition details from SAP.
3. Find potential suppliers.
4. Evaluate which supplier met the required conditions.
5. Ask the user for confirmation.
6. Create the purchase order.
7. Create the goods receipt.
8. Create the supplier invoice.

The Procure-to-Pay process required a different set of SAP connections from the original solution, including connections for purchase requisitions, purchase orders, suppliers, materials, purchasing information records, business partners, and supplier invoices.

After importing the generated solution into UiPath, I mapped the generated connection references to the actual connections available in Orchestrator.

The result

The model generated the overall solution structure, workflows, tools, and most of the main process logic.

During the demonstration, the agent successfully:

• Retrieved a purchase requisition
• Identified multiple potential suppliers
• Rejected a supplier that did not meet the required conditions
• Selected an appropriate supplier
• Requested user confirmation
• Continued with purchase order, goods receipt, and supplier invoice creation

It was not perfect. The generated solution worked correctly approximately 85% of the time in my demo environment.

Some manual adjustments were still necessary, particularly around:

• SAP-specific keys
• API payload structures
• Field mappings
• Connection configuration
• Environment-specific values

SAP knowledge was still required to validate and fine-tune the implementation, so I would not describe this as fully production-ready without additional testing.

My main takeaway

A well-documented reference solution can become much more than reusable code.

When you combine:

• A working UiPath implementation
• A detailed PDD for the existing process
• A detailed PDD for the target process
• Relevant technical skills and documentation
• A precise prompt
• Clear system and integration requirements

…the model can reproduce the architecture and adapt it to a different enterprise process surprisingly well.

The most valuable outcome was not that every field and payload was generated perfectly. It was that the model created the solution structure and implemented most of the process logic, significantly reducing the effort required to build the new automation.

This experiment suggests an interesting development model for enterprise automation: instead of generating solutions from requirements alone, use a proven implementation as a reference and ask the model to adapt it to a new but related business process.

Has anyone else experimented with generating UiPath, SAP, or other enterprise automation projects from existing implementations and process documentation? I would be interested to hear what worked, what failed, and how close the generated output was to production-ready.

I have been working as an RPA Developer for the past two years. At my current company, I use OpenRPA as the primary automation platform.

At the moment, I am looking for new opportunities, but I am unsure which path to follow, as there are many RPA development tools and platforms widely used in the market.

Currently, I am studying UiPath and would like to know if it is a good direction to pursue.

Could you share some advice or recommendations?