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I Was Spending 10 Hours a Week Copy-Pasting Content. Here's What I Learned Building the Fix.

DEV Community: vue·Pizza Cat·2 days ago
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I Was Spending 10 Hours a Week Copy-Pasting Content. Here's What I Learned Building the Fix. Thursday night, 11:47 PM. I had just finished writing a tutorial about Vue 3 + Cloudflare Workers. Good content. Solid code examples. The kind of thing that should get me eyes. Then I spent the next 52 minutes doing this: Copy the article to Dev.to — need to add frontmatter, fix the code block formatting, rewrite the intro to be shorter Copy a thread version to Twitter — 280 char limit, break into 7 tweets, make each one a hook Copy to LinkedIn — professional tone, line breaks every 2-3 sentences, no code blocks Copy to Reddit — conversational, shorter, don't sound like a salesman Copy to Indie Hackers — narrative style, add the "I'm a solo dev" angle Same content. Five different formats. Zero value added. I did the math: over the last 3 months, that's 130 hours . Hours I could have spent building product, talking to users, or — you know — sleeping. And the worst part? I wasn't even doing it well.…

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