Scratching my own itch
Building a tool to simplify hashtag management and photo scheduling for photographers!
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This is Luis, with the latest issue of my newsletter. I write this newsletter to share my passion for photography, cities, and technology, along with interesting links I find over the week(s). This newsletter will be (as long as possible) free, but if you like to support it feel free to become a paid subscriber (pay what you want), or buy one of my photos.
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On today’s issue: What I have been up to in the last weeks. This post comes accompanied by some of my recent photos too. Enjoy!
They say that developers are lazy people. Indeed we are. We try to look for ways to facilitate our life, to reduce some extra clicks or remove some frictions from our day-to-day. And that’s exactly what I’ve been doing lately.
As I started sharing more of my photography work I started noticing some patterns and frictions, specially on adding hashtags to my posts. One can ask, what’s the issue with it? It’s tedious. Having to remember which hashtags to use, selecting the appropriate ones, and making sure that there are no typos can be time consuming and boring. Of course, there’s the good old method of having a note and copy-paste from it. But still is tedious.
So, I decided to look for tools to facilitate my life. And there are a bunch of tools, most of them targeting marketing professionals, social media teams in companies, and so on. But there are close to none options for hobby photographers, independent professionals, or photography enthusiasts. The solution: build my own tool. I’m sure I’m not the only one with the same inconvenience, and I hope that what I’m building will not only work for me, but for more fellow photographers.
What am I building? At the moment is very simple: A tool to schedule, manage, and crosspost photographs between social media sites. This includes having pre-saved hashtags, groups of hashtags to be reused, and some analytics per post. I’m focusing on Instagram and Pixelfed.
Along the next weeks I’ll be sharing more behind the process of building the application. I will also share some invites to do alpha testing. Make sure to tag along! 😉
Thanks for reading!
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About this newsletter
I'm Luis Natera, a software developer, network scientist, and data/cities/tech nerd. I have an interdisciplinary trajectory (architecture -> sociocultural studies -> network science -> software development), you can read more about me and my career here.
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