Social media · checked 2026-10-13Can I vibecode Typefully?
KINDA· weekend project
Writing and queueing posts is the easy part: an editor that splits a thread at each network's limit, a calendar, and a worker that publishes on time. For Bluesky and Mastodon, whose APIs are free and simple, an agent gets that done in an evening. X and LinkedIn take the rest of the weekend: X now charges for every post through its pay-per-use API, LinkedIn tokens expire after 60 days unless you are an approved partner, and Threads needs its own Meta developer app. You end up with a working personal scheduler, minus the analytics, the AI rewrites and Typefully's exact previews.
$8.25/moprice
$99you'd save a year
weekendbuild time
—people replaced it
What you need on hand.
DifficultyIntermediate · Some system setup or keys.
TimeAn evening for Bluesky and Mastodon; budget another two hours for the X and LinkedIn developer portals
- Claude Code, Codex or CursorAny of them can run the prompt.
- Node.js 22better-sqlite3 compiles a native module, so build tools must be installed.
- An X developer account with creditsPay-per-use: you buy credits in the Developer Console and each post draws on them.
- A LinkedIn developer appAdd the Share on LinkedIn product; creating the app asks for a LinkedIn Page to attach it to.
- A machine that is awake at posting timesYour laptop works if it's open; a small VPS is steadier.
Before you buildTypefully Free still publishes 10 posts a month to every network. If that's your volume, keep it.
- 1. Install one agent: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.
- 2. Make an empty folder and open it in the agent.
- 3. Paste the prompt below, press enter, and answer its questions as it builds.
The prompt
Build me a thread writer and post scheduler to replace Typefully. Requirements:
- Node.js 22 + TypeScript: Fastify API and a React + Vite front end, served
by `npm start` on http://localhost:4800. A worker in the same process checks
the queue every 30 seconds and publishes whatever is due.
- Storage: better-sqlite3 in ./data/posts.db; uploaded images in ./data/media/.
- Editor: one draft can target several networks. Blank lines split a thread;
show a live count per post (X 280, Bluesky 300, Mastodon 500, LinkedIn
3,000) and refuse to schedule anything over a limit.
- Publishing: Bluesky with @atproto/api and an app password; Mastodon with
`masto` and an access token; X with the v2 API (OAuth 2.0 PKCE, scopes
tweet.write, users.read, offline.access; replies chained into a thread);
LinkedIn with the Posts API and w_member_social. Secrets stay in .env and
./data, never in the browser.
- Calendar: week view, drag to reschedule, and weekday time slots
("Tue 09:00, Thu 17:00") that an "Add to queue" button fills in order.
- After publishing, store each post URL. On failure keep the draft, show the
API error and retry up to 3 times.
- Single user. No accounts, no telemetry, local-first.
- Out of scope: analytics, AI rewriting, team comments, Threads, Instagram.
- README: setup for each network and two honest warnings: X bills every post
through pay-per-use credits (posts with links cost more), and LinkedIn
tokens expire after 60 days, so show a "reconnect" banner before they do.Opens your agent with the prompt filled in, you press enter. Or copy it and paste it into an empty folder.
Then keep going
Next prompts, same folder.
The first prompt builds the core. Run these one at a time in the same folder to grow it into your own Typefully.
Add a Typefully importer to the scheduler in this folder. Requirements: - Read TYPEFULLY_API_KEY from .env (created in Typefully under Settings > API). - Call GET /v2/social-sets, then GET /v2/social-sets/{id}/drafts with limit=50 and a rising offset until no results remain; pause 1 second between pages and back off on HTTP 429. - Import drafts and scheduled posts as local drafts (unscheduled, so nothing publishes twice); keep published ones as read-only history. - Print a summary of imported, skipped and failed items. Running it twice is safe. - Update the README.Add simple stats to the scheduler in this folder. Requirements: - Once a day, fetch likes, reposts and replies for posts published in the last 14 days: Bluesky via app.bsky.feed.getPosts, Mastodon via the status endpoint, X via the owned-reads endpoints for my own posts. - Store daily snapshots in SQLite and show a table sorted by engagement, with a sparkline per post. - Show the X credit cost of each run in the log. - Update the README.
Add Threads publishing to the scheduler in this folder. Requirements: - Use the official Threads API with a Meta developer app in development mode, my account added as a tester, and the long-lived token stored in ./data. - Publish text and image posts and chain replies for threads; respect a 500-character limit per post. - Refresh the long-lived token before it expires and show a banner if it can't. - Out of scope: browser automation of the Threads website. - Update the README with the Meta app setup steps.
What you lose
- X analytics: follower growth, profile conversion, streaks
- AI rewrites that learn your voice
- Shared drafts, comments and Slack alerts for a team
- The Mac app and pixel-exact previews of threads
- Auto-plug, auto-retweet and other engagement automations
Why people still pay
At $99 a year, Creator costs less than an afternoon of wiring up four social APIs, and writers like the editor enough to draft in it every day. Teams pay for shared drafts and approvals, and X-focused creators for the analytics.
Typefully or your own copy?
Over
Your usage
12h ×$/h
Typefully, 1 yr$99
Your own copy, 1 yr$44running + build session
You keep$56pays for itself in 2 months
Estimate · Bluesky, Mastodon and LinkedIn posting cost nothing. X charges $0.015 per post and $0.20 for a post with a link, so 60 posts a month with 20 links comes to about $4.60. A VPS to run the worker adds a few dollars.
Take your data, then cancel.
1 · Take your data out of Typefully
- 1Create an API key in Typefully under Settings > API. The Free plan includes API access.
- 2Call GET /v2/social-sets to find your social set ids, then GET /v2/social-sets/{id}/drafts with limit=50 and a rising offset to page through drafts, scheduled and published posts.
- 3Save the JSON. If you're on a paid plan, also use Download as CSV in X analytics while you still have it.
2 · Cancel Typefully
- 1Open Settings in the bottom-left corner and choose Billing.
- 2Click Cancel Subscription at the bottom of the page and answer the short survey.
- 3Continue past the offers (transfer the plan, report a missing feature) to confirm. The account moves to the Free plan.
- You keep your history and analytics on Free, but publishing drops to 10 posts a month, so check what is still scheduled.
- Cancelling does not refund anything by itself. Refunds are available within 14 days of purchase; ask support after that.
- Cancelling during a trial ends paid features straight away.
- The API is rate-limited per user and answers HTTP 429 when you go too fast; pause between pages.
The escape hatch
Don't feel like building it? These are already free.
PostizOpen sourceSelf-hosted scheduler with a calendar, team approvals and an AI assistant, posting to X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads and more.★ 37k · active Oct 2026 · docker to self-host
WebVisit ↗BrightBean StudioOpen sourceSocial media manager that plans, schedules and publishes through each network's official API with your own credentials; free hosted version or Docker.★ 2.5k · active Oct 2026 · docker to self-host
WebVisit ↗Mixpost LiteOpen sourceA Laravel app you run on your own server to schedule and publish posts from one calendar; the MIT-licensed Lite edition is free.★ 3.8k · active Mar 2026 · docker to self-host
WebVisit ↗
WebVisit ↗BrightBean StudioOpen sourceSocial media manager that plans, schedules and publishes through each network's official API with your own credentials; free hosted version or Docker.★ 2.5k · active Oct 2026 · docker to self-host
WebVisit ↗Mixpost LiteOpen sourceA Laravel app you run on your own server to schedule and publish posts from one calendar; the MIT-licensed Lite edition is free.★ 3.8k · active Mar 2026 · docker to self-host
WebVisit ↗
The numbers
Typefully pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual, per month | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 1 user, 1 social set, 10 posts a month, limited media uploads; scheduling, API and MCP included. |
| Creator | — | $8.25 | 1 user, 1 social set, 1,000 posts a month, X analytics, AI writing features, unlimited media uploads. |
| Business | $20 | $18 | Unlimited users, up to 50 social sets, shared drafts and comments, Slack notifications, roles and permissions, higher API limits. |
- Free tier
- 10 posts a month, 1 social set, 1 user, limited media uploads.
- Billing
- Creator is annual only at $99 a year. Business is $20 per social set monthly or $18 billed yearly. Refunds on request within 14 days of purchase.
- Hidden costs
- Business multiplies with every social set, so an agency with five brands pays five times. Cancelling does not trigger a refund on its own; you have to ask.
- Source
- typefully.com
Also on the list
Related apps
Free publishes to every supported network, but only 10 posts a month from one social set, with limited media uploads.
Kinda. The core is a weekend build with the prompt on this page, but real gaps remain: X analytics: follower growth, profile conversion, streaks, AI rewrites that learn your voice.
About $8.25 a month on the Creator plan, $99 a year (checked 2026-10-13).
X analytics: follower growth, profile conversion, streaks; AI rewrites that learn your voice; Shared drafts, comments and Slack alerts for a team; The Mac app and pixel-exact previews of threads; Auto-plug, auto-retweet and other engagement automations. If any of those matter to you, keep paying.
Yes: Postiz (open source), BrightBean Studio (open source), Mixpost Lite (open source).