264 - Automate all your workflows with Buddy Works

Interview with Maciek Palmowski, Luke Pasisz and Nathan Wrigley

So this is one of those episodes where you might learn something completely new. Buddy Works (often just called Buddy) is a great tool for saving you some real time, and who does not want more time?

So there’s a ton of different things that you do over and over again. No matter what business you’re in, there’s always going to be repetition. Most of us specialise in something so that we can offer that skill to the market. We have done the same thing many times so that we can become an expert at something.

What you quickly realise when you’ve done something a few times is that you now know how to do. You might describe your skill level like this… “I could do that in my sleep”.

But you can’t do that in your sleep, can you… because, erm… you’re asleep! But someone, or something, else could.

Bakers don’t do all the mixing by hand, because someone invented the mixer. Soon you won’t have to do all the driving during that cross-country trip, because someone invented the self-driving car. And web professionals don’t need to all the myriad complex, dull, repetitive, time-consuming [insert your own reason here], because someone invented Buddy Works!

Buddy Works is a tool which allows you to create complex pipelines. You’ve got a job that you feel is not really the best use of your time? Buddy Works will take that job from you and do it repeatedly. It will not get bored and complain, and you will be happier!

I will not lie to you. It’s not like Jarvis in the Avengers. You don’t get to just ‘think’, “mmm… I’m fed up with this task. Will you please take it off my hands and do it?”. You’re going to have to learn how Buddy Works works (I like that sentence)!

So, introducing Maciek Palmowski and Luke Pasisz. They’re here to explain what Buddy Works can do and how you get started.

The best way that I can describe this is… it’s like Zapier but for all the things that you might use to build websites and SaaS solutions. It connects over 130 different services so that you don’t need to learn the ins and outs of them all. You just need to know what you want to do and how to achieve that in their easy-to-use UI.

This all comes under the umbrella term of CI / CD (continuous integration, continuous delivery/deployment), and it’s more than just automation. It can do deployments, testing, converting sites to static, running backups and a lot more.

Given the complexity here, there’s little point in me trying to describe the many scenarios in which Buddy Works might save you some time. You can use the links below to explore, or, better yet, listen to the podcast to hear it!

We talk about what Buddy Works is, how it came to be, what’s on the roadmap, what you can achieve with it as well as the all important pricing.

Useful links:

You can look at how Buddy can work with WordPress:
https://buddy.works/wordpress

This is their landing page related to WordPress:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYUqFoJvK94

Here’s an excellent overview of what can be achieved in Buddy:
https://buddy.works/guides/pipelines-in-continuous-development

This article explains how pipelines work:
https://buddy.works/tutorials

there are a lot of interesting articles here as well:
https://buddy.works/guides

https://buddy.works/

https://buddy.works/pricing

https://buddy.works/wordpress

https://buddy.works/guides/pipelines-in-continuous-development

https://buddy.works/guides

Maciek’s Twitter handle:
@palmiak_fp