I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex
Open-source Buffer clone with unlimited seats, but maintaining ten social APIs is brutal.
Habitat is a free and open source self-hosted social platform for local communities
Federated local social fills real gap, but threadbare launch—no traction signals or adoption examples.
Neighborhood organizers, community advocates, self-hosted infrastructure enthusiasts
Nextdoor · Mastodon (with location) · Polis
For some background reading you can find out:
- Why I wanted to build this: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-net... - Some of the design decisions: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/
Open-source Buffer clone with unlimited seats, but maintaining ten social APIs is brutal.
Buffer + AI video generation — promises learning, ships generic scheduling.
Local agentic assistant that posts to X and LinkedIn, but full AGI claim is pure marketing.
Another algorithm-free social feed in a space with Mastodon and Lemmy already.
Narrator mode querying agent internal states is genuinely clever social simulation.
Buffer and Hootsuite already do this; MCP integration is the only differentiator.