Why pay $240 a year for a text box with a timer? Hammer built a post scheduler
Hammer was about to pay $20 a month to schedule tweets and balked at $240 a year for 'a text box with a timer'. So Hammer built it, once. Every post is a markdown file with a timestamp, a desktop app reads the folder, and a small agent on a server posts it on time with the laptop closed. Zero dollars in subscriptions, and the post itself went out that way. The advice is to steal the shape, not the app: files, a time and something that posts. A zombie small enough to fit in a folder.
Saving, as stated by the author: $240 a year
I was about to pay $20 a month to schedule tweets.
That is $240 a year for a text box with a timer!!
So I built it. Once.
Every post is a markdown file with a timestamp. A desktop app reads the folder. A small agent on my server posts it at its time, laptop closed.
Posts queued. $0 in subscriptions.
This post went out that way.
You do not need my app. You need the shape: files, a time, and something that posts. - I use X API, ask your agent, it will know.
— Hammer, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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