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Automation

NYC housing lottery monitor

Watches affordable-housing lotteries and can fill in applications automatically.

built Aug 2025 updated Sep 2026 Agents that work while I sleep

how it works

Playwright scraper plus discovered API calls, monitor/notify/apply scripts.

Automation: Something that runs on a schedule by itself.

The code for this one lives in a private repo. This page explains the idea so you can build your own.

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