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Show HN: OpenTweet – I built a way to stay active on X without opening X

https://opentweet.io
1•brankopetric•1h ago

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brankopetric•1h ago
Hey HN, I'm Branko, solo dev behind OpenTweet.

I built this because I kept falling off X for weeks at a time. I knew staying active mattered for my projects, but I hated opening the app — the feed is designed to waste your time. So I built a place to write, schedule, and publish posts without ever touching the timeline.

The part I'm most proud of is the connector system. You hook up an RSS feed, a GitHub repo, a Stripe account, or any API endpoint, and it drafts posts from your actual activity. Push a commit? It drafts a tweet. Publish a blog post? Same thing. Hit a revenue milestone on Stripe? It catches that too. You review everything in a visual calendar and edit before anything goes out. Nothing posts without your approval unless you explicitly set up auto-publish.

There's AI built in (Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini, you pick the model) for when you're staring at a blank screen, but it's a drafting tool, not autopilot.

I launched a few months ago and have 84 paying users so far. Most are indie hackers and solo founders who want to stay visible on X but would rather spend their time building. Their feedback is what shaped the connector system, turns out people don't want AI to invent tweets, they want it to turn things they're already doing into content.

I also built a free Chrome extension that shows posting patterns and engagement data for any X profile, useful even if you don't use the rest of the product.

Stack is Next.js, MongoDB, Auth0, AWS S3. There's a REST API if you want to build on top of it or let an AI agent post for you.

$11.99/mo after a 7-day free trial. Solo founder, priced to keep the lights on.

Would love honest feedback, especially on whether the auto-posting connectors feel useful or too hands-off. That's the thing I keep going back and forth on.

askl•1h ago
> the feed is designed to waste your time

So instead you build a tool to waste other peoples time with auto generated tweets?

If I saw someone using a tool like this, I'd instantly block them.

brankopetric•1h ago
Fair pushback. The connectors don't generate random content though, they turn things you're actually doing into drafts.

If you ship a feature on GitHub or publish a blog post, it writes a tweet about that specific thing. You still review and edit before it goes out.

If someone's using it to blast generic AI slop, yeah, I'd block them too. The goal is more like "I built something cool but forgot to tell anyone about it" not "fill the feed with noise."

That said, I get the skepticism. It's a real tension I think about a lot.

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