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RHRhea Vandermeer3d ago
I put off making a product video for about six months because every previous attempt turned into an afternoon in an editor. Recorded the screen capture, dropped it in, picked a template and had something I was not embarrassed by in under an hour. The part that actually saved me was the automatic captions — most people watch these on mute and I would not have bothered otherwise. My one complaint is that the template choice matters more than it looks like it does; the first one I picked made everything feel like an advert.
Typeframes
TOTobias Lindqvist9d ago
Set this up for a small open source project after people kept asking where they could send something. Took about ten minutes and the first support came through the same week. What works is that supporters do not need an account — that single thing removes most of the drop-off I saw with the alternative I tried first. Payouts have been on schedule. Marking it four rather than five because the analytics are thin; I would like to know where people are arriving from and I cannot tell.
Buy Me a Coffee
MAMarguerite Osei15d ago
Been using this for about four months for content planning. It is genuinely good at surfacing things I would not have thought to look for, and a couple of those became our best-performing posts of the quarter. Worth being realistic about what the numbers are though. The growth figures are directional rather than exact, and I have seen a few topics flagged as rising that were really one large news cycle. I treat it as a list of things to go investigate rather than a list of things to go write, and on that basis it earns its cost.
Exploding Topics
DEDevashish Raman22d ago
I have used this on every backend project for years and it is still the first thing I install. Collections shared across the team save a genuine amount of onboarding time, and the scripting is powerful enough that we run a decent chunk of our integration checks through it. The honest criticism is that it has grown a lot. What was a fast request client now takes a while to start and pushes cloud features I do not want. It is still the tool I reach for; I just notice the weight now in a way I did not three years ago.
Postman
PRPriyanka Balachandran1mo ago
Moved a marketing site and two documentation sites over last year. The thing I did not expect to care about was deploy previews on every pull request — being able to send a designer a working link instead of a screenshot changed how our review process works. Rollbacks are one click and have saved me twice. Build minutes are the thing to watch on the pricing side; our docs site rebuilds often and we hit the limit faster than I planned for, so check that before committing if you deploy frequently.
Netlify

Social Scheduling

Planning and publishing across networks.

Nothing launched in this category yet.

About Social Scheduling

Scheduling tools let you write posts once and publish them across platforms on a timetable. The value is real for anyone maintaining a consistent presence, and the category has a characteristic trap: scheduling makes it easy to publish more, and publishing more is rarely the thing that was missing.

The most useful features are the unglamorous ones. A queue with fixed time slots, so you fill slots rather than pick times. A content calendar showing what is going out this week, which prevents the accidental cluster of three similar posts on Tuesday. Drafts and approvals if more than one person publishes. Bulk upload for anything evergreen you want to resurface.

Cross-posting deserves a warning, because it is the feature people buy and the one that most reliably underperforms. Each platform has its own conventions for length, formatting, links and media, and a post written once and pushed everywhere reads as native nowhere. Tools that let you write a base version and adjust per platform get you most of the efficiency without the flatness. Tools that only broadcast identically are training your audience to skip you.

Link handling matters more than it should. Several platforms suppress reach on posts containing external links, so where a link goes — in the post, in a reply, in a profile — has measurable consequences. Tools aware of current platform behaviour save you from optimising against rules that changed last year.

Analytics in these tools are usually thin, because platforms restrict what they expose. Treat the numbers as directional, and be careful about drawing conclusions from small differences. The useful signal is usually which topics generate replies rather than which posts got impressions.

A genuine caution about platform dependence: every scheduling tool depends on interfaces the platforms control and periodically change or restrict. Tools have lost the ability to post to a network overnight, more than once. Do not build a process that only works if a specific integration keeps existing, and keep the material somewhere you own.

The best use of scheduling is removing the friction of consistency rather than manufacturing volume. See [creator tools](/categories/creator-tools) and [email marketing](/categories/email-marketing) for channels you own outright.