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Yerkebulan Rakhimov
Yerkebulan Rakhimov

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I shipped a tool that writes my social posts for me

I hit a wall with social media.

I decided to grow my accounts, but I slowed down hard. Too many reasons: I needed a break, filming plus project work is exhausting, personal stuff got in the way. Now I'm easing back in, but not every day. That hurts when you have deadlines.

So I stopped and asked: why is this so hard?

The answer: routine work. Specifically, writing the same post for every platform. Different formats, different limits, different visual styles. It's a grind.

My inversion: build a service that does the adaptation for me

I started building a tool. You write one post on my service. It adapts the content for each platform and posts it.

What "adaptation" means:

  • Visuals (layout, spacing)
  • Punctuation and formatting
  • Text formats: HTML, JSON, Markdown
  • Platform limits: max characters, forbidden symbols removed, etc.

Right now it only posts to Telegram. I'm testing it myself. Soon I'll add the rest.

Cost so far: time and focus, but no sunk cost yet

I'm not showing it publicly yet. When it's ready, I will.

Question for you: What's the one routine task you'd automate first if you could?


Shipped this as a side project. More details when I open it up.

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