Recently, I have started writing blogs as a hobby to discipline myself about building a habit which is consistent

However, writing is only half the battle. As the saying goes, “If people don’t know your product exists, they can’t judge its value.”

To seriously grow, and sharing whatever I do with a wider audience is essential.

But who is my target audience?

People who are curious about technology and are accustomed to read articles.  
These specific requirements make my target audience quite niche,  
Which limits my choices of social media platforms even more limited.  
To keep people informed about my work, I can use microblogging platforms like (X twitter/threads/blue sky/ mastodon) and LinkedIn.

But writing 10 different post on 10 different platforms is a lot of work, and I am not into that.

Also, as programmers, we tend to be “lazy” as we hate repetitive tasks,
also on the other side we love doing overengineering to solve simple problems.

Here is what I have so far:

1. A blog website built with a Static Site Generator (SSG).
2. An automatically generated RSS feed (handled automatically by the SSG).
3. A Cronjob to check for new posts.

First I have had planned to use some action runners on schedule like github actions, to check and trigger based on rss feed, but after I started, going through the different developer sections, I felt that’s not worth my time as some one has already done so.
So, Why reinvent the wheel when there are already some good solutions available.

Exploring automation solutions:

1. iftttt.com (This is free on paper only , and unusable )
2. zapier.com (Very limited free plan, but at least allows performing basic automation for free)
3. windmill.com (cloud: Very limited free plan, Can be self hosted)
4. make.com (free plan isn’t very limited and this is the simplest solution I have found so far)

So, I will be using make.com but how to use make.com to automate my social media posting?

1. X (twitter) api used to be free but that’s now paid so using official API dropped. ❌
2. For threads. though it’s free but platforms are yet to integrate it.
3. mastodon is free to use in most of the platforms
4. same for Blue sky but it isn’t free on zapier .

I have only found make.com to be a better suited automation platform even for free users
It barely restricts any core features .
But the only problem with them is low monthly credits, 1000 for an entire month.

And similar to Deterministic Finite Automata, here each step consumes 1 credit no matter failed or not.

But why am I telling you all of this and how is this free. Also will you be posting on such unsupported social media platforms manually ?

Answer is no. You don’t as we are going to use buffer.

Buffer is a social media aggregator and management platform which can manage upto 3 accounts for free

Twitter asking money hell no ❌ I am going to automate with buffer .

And make.com allows you connect upto 3 actions in a chain.

If you have used my affiliate link for make.com, they have told me that they will give all the users 10,000 credits for free which is their pro plan for the first month.

Buffer is generous enough to allow you to connect 3 social media accounts and post on them for free. but you can mostly post 10 posts per day on free plan which is more than enough for me.

So you can hook 3 accounts to buffer and two on make.com.

My workflow consumes 4 credits on each run and such that, you get about 8 runs a day. 4×30×8

so if executions happen at an interval of 3 hrs you will not be exhausting the free limits.

For your reference I am sharing Images of buffer and Make.com dashboard

Visit make with my referral link. (for 1st month free pro)

All this for absolutely free and with no credit card requirement.