I work for an association and every time i get the material for a new blog post i need to format, publish it on the blog and then design different types of post for FB, IG and Telegram with their own formatting. That requires plenty of time and work.
Ideally, i would love to create a blog where i can publish items ONE TIME, and then get social designs (with one or two alternative types of designs) and getting the text formatted right to be published.
The website is on wordpress right now, but i’m studying webdevelopment and i would really love to remake it in plain code with HTML, CSS and JS / JS frameworks. I’m not seeking to do this on Wordpress, on the opposite i would like to move away from it.
I know i would have to work with the APIs of the socials in order to get the content automatically published and with AI to get a quick text formatting: for example cutting some key parts of a text automatically. I have no clue for the design part, right now i’m using Canva but i always do pretty simple designs and all by hand.
I know this is probably a pretty ambitious project but it would leave me with A LOT less work once all of this is correctly set up, and replicating this for other blogs would simply be awesome.
How much is this makable? Would it require a lot of paid services, are the APIs usually free for such a small use? Where should i start from to learn how implementing the auto design part? Can a Junior webdeveloper do something like this in a reasonable amount of time, or are these pretty advanced skills?
APIs are generally not free, but they are pretty easy to use rest calls and very low cost for small volumes - I’ve paid up to$40/month for my bot but once it slowed down to ordinary levels of usage it’s probably under $10/mo.
It’s not clear to me whether you want to use AI to summarize or reword content based on individual audience and platform technical needs, or if you want to AI to design and format it for you and apply all the correct markup or formatting markers. I wouldn’t do that with AI unless it’s very simple because the AI won’t be consistent with non-specific tasks.
If I were looking to do this, I’d create a sort of design template to drop text into, then I’d have the AI pull out and reword the text for each section - possibly this could be a single prompt or multiple depending on the template complexity. You’d probably want different prompts for each social due to different technical requirements and possibly different audiences.
I’d also put in a lot of work with the prompts to make sure you get it fairly good at outputting what you want without any back and forth to make adjustments. Only when I had templates and prompts I was really happy with would I try automating it, and even then I’d never pipe the output directly to social media without human review because even the best prompts will have bad output from time to time.
That all being said, I’m not sure what your workflow is and I might be overcomplicating it.