Twitter Integration & Automation

[joshmanders]

The beauty of building in public is that you get more eyeballs on your stuff and lots of feedback allowing you to iterate quickly even without talking directly to your users.

But the drawback on Makerlog is building in two separate places.

So to facilitate the whole community of indie hackers and people building in public, I plan to heavily integrate Twitter into the system.

This will allow you to link your twitter account to your Makerlog account and Makerlog will perform actions to help you out so you don't have to log stuff in both places.

For example, we're exploring a auto tweeting[0] mechanism that'll let you either tweet out a daily summary of all logged tasks in Makerlog, or you can set it to tweet out every log you do immediately.

If you choose summary, what that'll do is at the end of the day, we'll look at all your logs, and if we can fit them into a single tweet, we'll put them all there and link to your daily summary on Makerlog. If they don't fit in a single tweet then we'll do a maximum of 3 tweet threads where we then list a few of your logs into 2.5 tweets, and then link to the rest in your summary.

If you choose immediately, then every time you log a task on Makerlog we'll tweet out that task completion.

[0]: We'll auto tweet FROM your account, not the Makerlog account.