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Bruno Paz • Edited

Yes! Maybe not for startups and smaller companies but for medium / big companies or projects it can bring a lot of value.

As you grow, It's natural that you will start to find more bottlenecks and very specific use cases that might not fit existing tools.

Having some people or team more focused on doing internal tools can have a great impact on the teams productivity and morale and be a great help to keep the processes running smoothly, while other people can focus on building features and delivering value to the end customer.

And can be simple things as some script to automate some boring task you have to do constantly, a chatbot to alert you of some important metric or a more complex application to manage your deploys.