"AI-Powered Publishing Assistant: Automating Article Sharing Across Platforms" - 1751884517

Here is the rewritten Dev.to post:

From Idea to Execution: Building an AI-Powered Publishing Assistant

The Problem

Like many ambitious builders, I wanted to share my learning journey through writing. But I quickly hit a wall — publishing the same article across multiple platforms (Dev.to, Hashnode, Medium, etc.) became repetitive, manual, and time-consuming.

The Vision

What if an AI could:

• Take one master article
• Reformat it per platform
• Generate a unique title and tags
• And directly publish it online?

The Solution

I built an autonomous content publishing agent that:

1. Takes a master article
2. Selects which platforms to post to
3. Clicks Publish

The agent handles:

• Rewriting the article using Groq + LLaMA3 (8B)
• Generating platform-specific titles and 3 smart tags
• Posting via API to Dev.to and Hashnode
• Returning live links to the published articles

Behind the Scenes

The agent is powered by:

• Python + Streamlit for the interface
• Groq API + LLaMA3 8B for fast, smart AI completions
• Custom prompts per platform (Dev.to, Hashnode, etc.)
• Autonomous tag and title generators
• Direct posting via REST and GraphQL APIs

Environment secrets like API keys are stored safely in .env.

Struggles and Fixes

We hit some interesting challenges:

• Dev.to rejected posts with >4 tags → fixed by slicing to 3
• Hashnode drafts weren’t showing → switched to publishPost mutation
• Groq was crashing → added load_dotenv() properly
• Random LLM outputs → refined prompts per platform
• Broken URLs → built correct slug-based URLs using .env subdomain

Every fix made the agent more stable, more autonomous, and more fun to use.

What's Next?

This is just Phase 1.

Next, we're planning:

• Substack and Medium integration
• Twitter/X thread generation from long-form content
• Scheduling and preview publishing
• Analytics on post performance
• Open-source release for other student builders

Final Thoughts

If you're serious about building an audience or writing online while managing a full schedule, you need automation. And not just schedulers — real intelligence that adapts your message to each platform.

This project helped me build that — and it's only just the beginning.