How IFTTT, Mandrill, and Twilio is helping me find an apartment in SF

In any case, parsing Craigslist apartment listings was how I practiced Ruby...Twillo/IFTTT/Mandrill didn't exist at the time, but a straight-up command-line scrape into CSV/Google Sheets is, IMHO, the right amount of engineering for the situation...unless the SF rental situation differs markedly from NYC's (pre-2008 crash), most rental situations don't require the applicant to be the first to call. It's a seller's market, and even if the seller wants to get out quick, they still want the best of several applicants to choose from, and there are things that keep the process from being an instant transaction (background checks, and the like).

But having everything in a spreadsheet, so that you can quickly compare across categories (and whatever metrics you wanted to extract from the text), and then create a column to mark Y/N, or 1-10 for preference, and then another column to mark where you are in the application process...that to me was a huge time saver than just regularly browsing Craigslist and doing copy-paste into a Word doc.

Do you find the auto-call feature to be a distraction sometimes? How does that work exactly? I wouldn't want my phone to randomly start dialing a listing it matches without myself taking a look through it first.

Edit: May want to include this is from 2013 in the title.

Task rabbit? Or one of those other personal assistant as a service sites?