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Build something cool in Tines.Fun or serious. Simple or complex.
Tines is endlessly flexible, so we love challenging ourselves and others to create new and unexpected workflows with it. YDWWT is an annual competition where we get to see what our incredible community of builders can create, from practical everyday uses to the more fun and the downright wacky.
✨ The 2023 Winners ✨
This year, we asked for entries in categories covering everything from powerful security use cases, to ones that were just for fun. As always, picking the best of the bunch was a challenge, and we’re so grateful to everyone who entered. All of the winning entries are now in our library so you can explore, edit and use them for yourself.
Grand Prize
macOS Patch Management
Managing software updates for macOS requires careful attention, depending on a user’s privilege level, not to mention their preferred configuration. Tyler’s solution cleverly solves for both, using an app and workflow built in Tines, which allows users to opt in or out of a pilot group, and pushes the updates they need using a flexible, centralized automation.
Tools: Atlassian, Jamf, Slack, Jira
Community author
Tyler Talaga at MyFitnessPal
Runner-up
K8sBot
At Elastic, the InfoSec team has a number of Elasticsearch clusters deployed on Kubernetes, using GCP. Alert investigation and remediation is time-consuming for engineers, so Christopher created this story to make their lives easier. Using a Slack bot, they can interact with any cluster and get more visibility about the health of the cluster and easily trigger further commands.
Tools: Argo Workflows, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Slack
Community author
Christopher Cutajar at Elastic
Category winners
Category: Security
Stories for any kind of security use case, such as phishing attack response, vulnerability management, or suspicious login alerts.
Winner
Provision AWS and Vault access via Okta
Zach’s story solves a common task – securely managing employee’s access to applications or devices. In this case, Zach tackled providing AWS access for new users. This workflow allows new users to securely retrieve their AWS login details via one click of a Vault tile in Okta.
Tools: AWS, HashiCorp, Okta
By Zach Perry at PathAI
Runner-up
CI/CD App Scanning (DAST)
Tools: Tenable.io
By Julien D.
Category: Tiny Tines
Small workflows, big impact. Tiny but powerful stories, with 10 actions or less.
Winner
Notion to Calendar
We love a short and sweet story! Jesse always found it cumbersome to create calendar events from a Notion database, so he found a workaround with Tines. In this workflow, teams can easily create calendar events from data in Notion, such as upcoming events, birthdays, and software releases.
Tools: Google Calendar, Notion
By Jesse Johnson at Material Security
Runner-up
Verify User Identity through slack with Okta/Yubikey OTP
Tools: Okta, Yubico, Slack
By Pendie Garrett at Credit Karma
Category: Build apps
Use Tines to introduce interactions from anyone into your workflow or to publish outcomes to the web.
Winner
MasquerAid
Keeping up with the ever-evolving methods used to breach systems is a daily battle for red teamers, social engineers, and OSINT investigators. This inspired Aaron to create this pretext generator app with Tines. The app leverages AI to generate a random persona, providing details like name, location, hair color, and even the names of friends and parents to test the security of your systems.
Tools: OpenAI, ChatGPT, DALL-E
By Aaron Wilkinson at Orbia
Runner-up
STOP SMS scams - SMISHING
Tools: OCR.Space, OpenAI, PagerDuty, Jira
By Rajesh Kumar
Category: Just for fun
Fun and unexpected ways to use Tines to automate tasks you’ve always found annoying or simply because you thought, “Why not?”
Winner
Rickroll Counter
Andrew used Tines to trick friends, family, and co-workers with an absolute classic: the infamous Rickroll YouTube video. The owner of the story will be updated via Slack with the number of people they’ve successfully Rickrolled to bask in their glory. Andrew even recorded a great video of some friends reacting to being Rickrolled!
Tools: Tines, Slack
By Andrew Katz at Jamf
