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Ask HN: A free tool for posting content to social media platforms in one place?
I found multiple social media management platforms, but most of them are very price for my side project. I don't need any analytics or scheduled posting.
Right now I have to open each social media platform(Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter) and post each post there manually. I would like to create a post and publish it in one place.
Do you have any suggestions?
- Tomte 5y agoYou could post on a Wordpress blog. I'd be very surprised if there weren't plugins for posting automatically to every social media web site I've ever heard of.
- laangregor 5y agoThat is a nice out-of-the-box thinking. I found some plugins that could work. Unfortunately using Wordpress means that I should get a web hosting and set up a website. That even would be okay. The lack of Wordpress security and storing your API keys there is a serious problem and probably a turndown.
- Tomte 5y agoI think installing Wordpress locally, using WAMPP or XAMPP or so, would work, but I haven't thought it through.
- laangregor 5y agoThanks, will give a try. Currently not seeing why it should not work. Worst-case scenario, I will need a proxy.
- coreymaass 5y agoWordPress, out of the box, is quite secure, especially if it's not a high traffic site. And then most of the plugins that interact with services like social media either use tokens or one-time keys, so I wouldn't worry about these issues too much (depending on the plugin you choose). Source: I've built, maintain, and use a number of WordPress plugins that interact with social media.
- laangregor 5y agoThanks, this is good to know. Most likely will start with Wordpress. Still wonder if there are any free solutions. If not, Maybe I can engineer one in the near future.
- coreymaass 5y agoPlease do. I’ve been looking for something similar for ages. Buffer et all are expensive for simple publishing. I finally bought a lifetime membership to Radaar on AppSumo, but the “post to multiple channels” could be simpler and I’ll never use all the other 100 features they offer.
- coreymaass 5y agoAlso if this is something you want to discuss working together on, get in touch! https://gelform.com/contact https://gelform.com/contact
- laangregor 5y agoI am going to make core functionality open source on Github. Currently doing some research for market and engineering. Hoping to make the core functionality using only front-end code to keep the costs as low as possible. I will give you a heads up when I have a plan in place.
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