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We publish stories that blend the practical how with the thoughtful why. From scripts and sensors to team workflows and family routines — we believe automation isn’t just a tech story; it’s a human one.

If you’ve built something, broken something, or learned something along the way — we want your voice on the blog.

✅ What We’re Looking For

We’re especially interested in posts that fall into one (or both!) of these categories:

🛠️ Automation & Tools — How we build systems

If you’ve created a workflow, tool, or process that made life easier, tell us about it. We love posts that are specific, useful, and replicable.

Examples:

“How I Automated My Team’s Weekly Reports Using Python and Google Sheets”
“Home Assistant Automations That Actually Survived a Family of Four”
“What I Learned Automating CI/CD Pipelines with GitHub Actions”
“Using n8n to Connect Apps Without Writing Code”

Topics might include:

Scripts, APIs, bots, webhooks
No-code/low-code tools (Zapier, Make, Notion, Airtable, Node-RED, etc.)
DevOps, data pipelines, internal tooling
Smart home tech and personal workflows

💡Bonus points for sharing links, templates, or GitHub repos!

🤝 Humans & Change — How those systems affect real lives

Automation doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It reshapes how people work, communicate, and relate to technology. We want stories that explore the human impact of systems you’ve built — the good, the bad, and the unexpected.

Examples:

“Why My Team Resisted My Automation Until I Changed One Word”
“The Invisible Emotional Labor of Maintaining a Family Automation Setup”
“Automation as Empowerment — Not Just Efficiency”
“What Happens When Your Workflow Becomes Someone Else’s Bottleneck”

Topics might include:

Change management and digital transformation
Team or family adoption of new tools
Privacy, trust, and over-automation
Automation and identity: control, job security, friction

Bring your observations, reflections, and lived experiences. You don’t have to be a developer to write a powerful post.

🧠 Who Can Contribute?

Anyone with a story, workflow, or insight to share. Whether you’re automating build pipelines or bedtime routines, your voice matters.

We welcome:

Engineers and tinkerers
Product and operations folks
Knowledge workers and team leads
Parents, students, and side-project hackers
Anyone exploring what it means to AutomateTheRest

You don’t need to be a professional writer. We’ll help shape your post if needed.

📨 How to Submit

We publish posts on Medium under the Automate the Rest publication. To contribute:

Write your post on Medium.com — it can be a full draft or a published story.
Make sure it’s original, clear, and relevant to one of our focus areas.
Share your Medium link (draft or published) via submission form.

Once we review and approve it, we’ll invite you as a writer (if needed) and add your story to the publication.

You’ll be credited as the author, and the story will appear on both your profile and the publication.
You’ll be credited as the author, and the story will appear on both your profile and the publication.
You retain full control and editing rights at all times.

If you’re part of the Medium Partner Program, you’ll still be eligible to earn money from your story — even when published under Automate the Rest.

💡 Why Write Here?

Contribute to a thoughtful community of builders and systems thinkers
Share what worked (or didn’t) to help others
Get your work featured and promoted
Include links to your site, project, or social handle

Automate The Rest is currently in an early stage, so let's give it a try and build a collection of ideas that help people automate the rest — responsibly, creatively, and humanely.