Every time I publish content I burn over ten hours putting it everywhere else. Articles to Medium, Substack, Dev.to, Hashnode. Posts to LinkedIn personal and company. Threads to Twitter. Comments across Reddit and trade communities. Each platform wants the content slightly different. Each one needs a canonical URL pointing back to the source. Each one is fifteen to forty minutes of copy paste, format fixing, tag selecting. Ten plus hours a week of distribution across articles, posts, comments, syndication. Pure copy-paste with no thinking attached. The kind of work that gets pushed to evenings and weekends because there is always something more important to do during business hours. I just spent a weekend replacing it with a self-hosted open source AI agent called OpenClaw, running on a small Docker-sandboxed VM with ChatGPT Plus as the brain. Starting cost around thirty-two dollars a month. Scales up to forty-four if you push the box harder. Less than the coffee budget either way.…