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PublishTo.Dev: Scheduling article publishing on dev.to

Todd Anglin on July 30, 2019

It's 11 PM. You've finally put the finishing touches on your next masterpiece article on dev.to. You can't wait to share it with the world and sta...
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André

Nicely done, now I just neeed to write enough articles so that I am actually in need of this.

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Allan N Jeremy

😂 relateable

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Matthew Collison

Can we buy you Reddit gold or is that not how this works??? 😂 Great job! We will definitely be using this. Thank you for this awesome tool

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Simme

This is great! Good job!

I'm a little concerned regarding security though as the api key seems to be stored in clear-text in the db currently. This seems like a huge attack vector for malicious users as dumping that table would mean you get programmatic access to all user accounts.

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Muhimen

Not all, those who have signed in. You can always use the dev API on your own. That's what I prefer.

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Simon Massey

Awesome! ... so what is a good or bad time to publish? Are there some stats anywhere about activity on dev.to or should I just use some guesswork?

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Andy Huynh

I notice my favorite newsletters like MorningBrew and the Daily Stoic deliver emails before I wake up on the west coast (PST). 3am... 5am... they have a huge following so they must've discovered something.

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Alex Ziskind

Awesome post - thanks for sharing! I want that voiceover guy for my courses :)

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Sven Kanoldt

Nice! Now we just need a publish broadcast service that publishes on Dev, Twitter, medium, HN, and so on.

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Brunner

tried building that, but was wondering if it would be useful enough.
Or if people will not find it boring to see the same article everywhere they go
What do you think?

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Sven Kanoldt

If you check the feedback here, I'm quite sure some will find value in it.

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CHADDA Chakib

I like the code, the tool & the spirit !

Great job man ! Keep going :)

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Idris Rampurawala

Killer feature bro! Can't wait to try it out :)

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Wow this is awesome! Thanks for making it!!

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Olivier “Ölbaum” Scherler

The real question is: will it result in fewer occurrences of many articles by the same person following each other and hogging my home page feed, or even more of those?

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Alexandra Grazhevskaja

This tool looks really useful and cool, I will try to use it.
Thank you for contributing!!

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John Papa

Nice job! Really helpful, thank you

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Sean G. Wright

Nice work! I look forward to checking this out.

Thanks! 🙏

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Desi

YEEEESSSSSSSS, I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS NATIVELY! Can't wait to give it a try!

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Karel De Smet

I'm excited to test this and figure out how it was set up. Clear and concise article as well to top it off. Brilliant work!

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Cynthia Zanoni

promo video is the best!

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Brunner

congrats, its not easy building this service.

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Jason C. McDonald

OOOH! I'm going to start using this. :D

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Stephen Chiang

Nicely done!

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Jess Lee

Used this today :)

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Bhupesh Varshney 👾

It's really a nice tool 👏

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Allan N Jeremy

This is a true unicorn! Part of the reason I keep "not publishing " is because of timing andscheduling.

Thanks a bunch Todd!!

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Emma Goto 🍙

Nice! I wonder if anyone's looked into the optimal time of day to publish a post?

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Allan N Jeremy

Been a lurker recently but I believe @ben can answer this? An analytics tool riding on dev would definitely help

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Vannsl

Googled "schedule dev.to", got heres. This is so much more than I've expected, thanks! Can you also tell me when a good time for my articles is? :D

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Waylon Walker

Amazing tool, I've used it over the last week and it has worked flawlessly!

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Aditya Tyagi

Thank you for investing your time in developing this.
There are times when your pain point is everyone's pain point! That's where products like PublishTo.Dev shine! :)

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Waylon Walker

Todd, I have been noticing failures on my last four posts. Is there any way to see why they are failing? I did double-check my token is still active and matches.

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Ankit malik

I think this is not useful anymore.
Can't see that I can generate the access token.