A queue, a composer, and a scheduled worker that posts at the right time is genuinely a real day's work for one or two platforms with open APIs — the whole product collapses into a script at that scale.
Borderline
Effort: a weekendRunning cost: $0/mo to start
Why CanICodeThis says Borderline
A queue, a composer, and a scheduled worker that posts at the right time: one honest day
If you live on one or two platforms with open APIs, the whole product collapses into a script
Basic per-post analytics (likes, comments pulled from the platform's API) are bounded reporting
The parts that'll cause problems
Some platforms' API access requires app review, business verification, or fees — per network, forever, not a one-time build cost
Unified analytics across many networks with different metrics needs real data-normalization work
Preview rendering matching each network's actual card format takes real, ongoing per-platform maintenance
How I'd build this
frontend
Next.js
database
Supabase
hosting
Vercel
MVP scope
A composer and a queue of scheduled posts
A scheduled worker posting to one or two platforms via their APIs
AI agent — with a subscription (Claude Pro/Max, Cursor, etc.)
$0 marginal
AI agent — pay-per-use API, no subscription
$43–$86 one-time
Hosting, once it's running
$0/mo (free tier)
Domain name, if you want your own
~$12/yr
Existing tools solving a similar problem typically run $6–$99/mo — see how they compare below.
The build prompt
Build me a social scheduler, genuinely a real day's work for one or two platforms:
1. A composer and a queue of scheduled posts.
2. A scheduled worker (a cron job) posting to one or two platforms via their own APIs at the right time.
3. Basic post-status tracking (scheduled, posted, failed).
If you live on one or two platforms with open APIs, the whole product collapses into a script. Out of scope: support for more platforms, which multiplies integration work per network, and unified cross-network analytics, which needs real data-normalization work across each platform's different metrics.
