gaming

Free stuff is good. I like free stuff, I like custom notifications, and I like needlessly complicating automating things. I especially love automation for alerts - it's cool to automate a tedious task that requires manual interaction like turning on a light, but triggering alerts as they occur is one of my absolute favourite uses of automation.

This can also also obviously be adapted for any type of noitification from Reddit.

For quite some time, I'd been using an IFTTT automation to watch for new Reddit posts about PC games available to claim for free then send me a notification to claim them. I had recently switched from IFTTT to Zapier, until a Reddit update broke my Zapier automation and I was forced to go back to IFTTT. The Zapier/Reddit integration is now fixed, so while I may try and set up a self-hosted version of this