ZeroWork Reviews

It's honestly brilliant - I absolutely love it. I used to build these kinds of bits using Python and I'm seriously looking to move all of my codebase to ZeroWork - thanks for building this brilliant tool 👍

This product had been sitting for a month, I'd put off using it in favor of API's and webhooks. But I came to a point where there were just no options left connecting 3-4 platforms without much needed API's.
In 2 hours, I'd opened it up, created webhooks and API's back and forward, including scraping the stuff I needed to save to the database. And just sitting back here watching stuff getting synced into the database. This is some matrix s*it. I'm feeling like a genius right now, but it's really due to zerowork hehe.

What a cool little thing you've created Diana, well done. I'm sure this thing will come in handy in the future, you already saved me a lot of time, I've already noted down a few things that I could automate down the line when I get the time. Super easy to use too. The only thing I need some guidance on is, what settings do I need to change in my computer so I don't disrupt it? And what happens if I re-start my computer? I couldn't find any guidance on that in the docs.

It really depends on what you are looking for. In our company use case, we can automate scraping and even data cleaning.

I indeed takes some time to set up, but if you are into automatization and you can even partner it up with ChatGPT, than it will start doing some magic.

You just need some patience.

I bought this to automate some of my law practice products, because some of my processes are tedious. Sadly, I couldn't find any uses for this, other than scraping information for marketing purposes, which is not a use case that is appropriate for me. I am refunding this.

Far away from the concept.

The name implies “Zero Work”, but actually, it requires lots of work. At the end, doing tasks manually, even though time-consuming, is accurate and has the exact time you do it, unlike the so-called “ZeroWork” that requires lots of time for configuration, testing, troubleshooting, and so on.

Moreover, “Zero Tutorials”!

Let me start with the conclusion: this product is not yet sufficient to be called Zero Work.

First of all, the learning curve for this tool is quite steep, and users with no prior experience will definitely face considerable frustration. Such users will need to spend a lot of time on trial and error to achieve the desired results.

Moreover, although it is executed locally, it can only operate websites and perform simple web requests, without direct access to local applications or any large databases, not even SQLite. Users have to figure out how to set up a web server as an intermediary to execute local programs through this tool, and they also need to find their own ways to transmit data (the built-in table and Google Docs do not meet my needs), which is also quite troublesome for users. Although there is a block for executing JS code within the program, it can only run in the browser and is limited by the browser's security policies, making many operations impossible through this block.

I believe this tool still has a lot of room for development, and I hope one day it can truly become Zero Work.

2024-12-18 Update:

They released a new update v1.1.57 that allows code to be executed outside the browser, so I'm here to update the review and rating.

I'm glad they listened to my needs (complaints).

I have spent a lot of time watching the official Zero Work crash course videos on Youtube seeking to do the most basic tasks first. (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7X7ThrPNPJAN8nfHlfguop5ylcZyJjsw). None of the videos are actually replicable. Lots of things may be obvious to them, so they don't mention it, but there is important guidance missing in the videos. If you follow the steps exactly as they do, the taskbot fails. Using a combination of 'trial and error' and doing what other users say in the video comments, you get some of the taskbots to work in the end. Things are mentioned in video as 'see in description' but then there is nothing there in the description (e.g. getting the correct CSS selector for a very simple scraping job).
I tried to be disciplined and not go straight to tasks I actually want to do, but learn the techniques first, but without workable up-to-date guidance it seems impossible. Frustrating.
Nice idea. I can see the potential, but the learning curve is just too steep. I consider myself being quite tech-savy and not giving up easily, but I cannot see anyone actually making this work and safe time. May as well do those things manually. Will try make.com instead (the basic plan is free)

Short and concise,
you need to engage with it a little, and then ... BAM, what awesome potential.
Just great, top :)
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Kurz und prägnant,
man muss sich ein wenig damit auseinandersetzen, und dann ... BAM, welches großartige Potenzial.
Einfach fantastisch, hervorragend :)

Although I hope and expect the following issues will be resolved and improved with the introduction of cloud runs, I must rate what exists currently. The behavior of certain elements in the interface is not intuitive. The "Run" and "Schedule" buttons only run/schedule tasks on the same machine on which the interface is accessed. Although it is possible to install an agent on a remote machine, the only way to trigger it remotely to run a task is by use of a webhook. As a user, I logically expect clicking Run (or schedule) to reach out to any available running agents logged into my account to run the task -- ideally in a non-duplicative way if task agents are distributed across multiple remote machines.

I've tried a few RPA solutions and ZeroWork is the only one I got working in a few minutes. Easy to use and understand.

Powerful yet simple

No more details needed. If you are looking for a RPA Tool, Zero work is the way.

Let’s face it—RPA can be tricky and sometimes frustrating, regardless of the tool. But if you stick with it and experiment, success is absolutely within reach. I initially bought ZeroWork thinking it might end up like many of my other AppSumo purchases—unused. However, I was pleasantly surprised!

After diving into ZeroWork's welcome YouTube playlist, I had everything up and running in no time. In just one day, I was able to automate two fairly complex and niche use cases: integrating with Podio (my CRM) and gathering podcast sponsorship statistics. Tasks I previously relied on an assistant for are now fully automated—and it works like a charm.

While I’m thrilled with the results so far, I’ll be upfront: I have over a decade of experience as a test automation engineer. This gave me a head start in knowing what to avoid and how to build reliable RPA scripts, which likely contributed to my quick success.

That said, I’m genuinely excited to explore the full potential of this tool. If you’re willing to put in a little effort to learn and experiment, ZeroWork RAP has the power to deliver incredible value. Highly recommended!

I have only spent a few hours on it, but I have gotten it to do more than what I was able to with the other 1 or 2 RPA tools I have used in the past (including one I bought here on Appsumo).

I am trying to get it to copy data from spread A when it is updated with some order data, to spreadsheet B which is on Google Sheets. The issue is that spreadsheet A is like a Chinese version of Google sheets (Jingshan wendang) so it can't be connected/synced via API.

I've been playing around with ZeroWork on and off and I have to say that it is easy to use and fairly logical how to use it.

You can pretty easily get things done with this tool.

Scraping data from your web accounts and saving it to Google Sheets is only a couple of hours to setup. And that's mostly because I'm not a pro at it yet.

I do get stuck every now and again but I usually find a workaround to get it to work.

First time I got stuck I reached out to Diana (Founder) and she helped me out in no-time.

Great product and a must-buy imho!

I've got a bunch of different RPA creators and this is the only one I've actually been able to get myself to complete set up on. It still takes some trial and error with finding right selectors. But there is a decent GPT someone built to help with that.

The general simplicity of the UI helps make things easier to figure out once you've got the hang of things. I'm nit the most tech savvy person but I'm willing to do the trial and error and I was able to set up a custom automation to update a daily post to an industry website without too much trouble. I messed around with it step by step in between my regular work items and was able to get things going in about 4 hours for this very first one and I know it will get easier from here as I familiarize myself more.

I'm looking forward to finally having an automation system where I can set most things up pretty easily. This is simple enough I can see using it even for non routine stuff like a quick one-off processing of even 30 rows of data would save me time. Whereas with similar products I wouldn't even have figured out how to install the basic software yet. 😅

I'm sure the resources and onboarding will also get built out more as they go. They have an acceptable amount of resources for how long they've been around and I don't expect them to be perfected yet. They seem to have a good balance with focusing on functionality and updates and are clear about timeframes on support and what is and isn't covered in support.

If you don't expect absolute miracles out of this thing you will definitely still find a lot of magic it can do for you. I look forward to seeing them grow and succeed over the next several years!

I am normally ok with learning new tech tools. This however has left me feeling frustrated. The guides make what seem like a simple toolset incredibly frustrating. Fundamentals seem to be missing and a few assumptions made, key points skipped. So this may just gather dust. With the right support might be a very useful tool.

It does what it is supposed to do and it does it mostly well. Just sometimes it fails to select/find and element, but this happens rarely, about 1 time out of 15.

The flow builder is ok and easy to learn although I am used to Make.com which is much more mature in terms of flow building, working with variables etc.

What is a bit clunky is the storing of data in tables. The upside is it can store data directly to Google Sheets.

Money well spent considering the price.

I have owned many automated tools but this one suprised me.
Contrary to what I thought, I had to open the browser and the software would simulate the operation and occupy the browser like other software:
- We can run many taks simultantly, each task runing on a browser window or run tasks in the background.
- The builder is designed in a diagram form so it is easy to understand and the actions are very simple with only a few properties entered, not many and complicated like other software. There are clear and easy to understand video instructions.

Overall the product is great for creating your own use cases for automation. There's always a learning curve but for someone who doesn't know how to code like me, I find the tool very useful and flexible.

You just have to be playful and be creative. Make sure to join the active community which is very helpful. The constant improvement is a also a good sign that the tool will continue to evolve and still be relevant in the coming years.

So far, what I can do with this tool are:
- connect with people in different social media platforms
- data scraping and data enrichment transferring it to google sheet
- I can even send a message custom messages pulling it out from google sheet to the designated social media platform
- automate adding weekly leads to my campaigns and
- automate adding new qualified leads to Zoho

I'm currently finding more complex use cases at the moment and learn a bit of javascript and also use AI integration and API.