ZeroWork Reviews

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 :)