PostMaker

Make beautiful posts for social media in 30 seconds.

No Employees
Founders Code
Solo Founder
SaaS
Social Media

I wanted to be able to create beautiful instagram/twitter posts, with custom branding/watermarks, on the fly, as I go about my day. Normally I would make a post on Photoshop, but that requires me to be at my computer

January 26, 2021 Created a SaaS MVP in 6 days

I became possessed with the idea of a mobile-friendly web-app that would allow you to create Instagram-worthy image posts super quickly. The technical solution came to me from the beginning: the user inputs text, which is rendered in a square, the user selects a background image supplied via the Unsplash API, and then the app exports the Vue component into an image. I put it together initially a component in the CMS for my personal site, then realized after showing it to a few friends that it had potential as a mini-SaaS, so I spent a couple of days refactoring it as a standalone app. And now here we are! http://postmaker.platformkit.com/

I will probably get a domain for it this week.

Auth0 for login, Github as the backend. Built in Vue/Gridsome. Deploys to Netlify.

Currently there are no restrictions, everything is free. In the future, if there turns out to be a market, I will add a paid tier.

Future features I'm already considering (just to scratch my own itch) -- publish to RSS / schedule posts for the future.

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I wanted to be able to create beautiful instagram/twitter posts, with custom branding/watermarks, on the fly, as I go about my day. Normally I would make a post on Photoshop, but that requires me to be at my computer