I built a scheduling platform for Bluesky
With Bluesky opening up to the public in February 2024, and emerging as a stronger alternative to Twitter, a gold rush soon began to develop third-party tooling around the paltform. Scrappy software and AI-generated slop soon began flooding this market, along with bigger social media analytics and planning softwares adding Bluesky to their list of supported platforms. The Why Going through some of these tools, I deduced that a clean, fully functional, built for Bluesky platform would have potential to take up a good chunk of market share. Even if it didn't, my time spent built building the software would at least help me learn a few more things about SaaS development. The What I sat and wondered what I could build. What did Bluesky users really need? Or at least that is what I wish I had done. Instead, first thing I did was open VSCode and started coding away. I had an idea in the back of my mind though, analytics. That was what I was focusing on. But as I built feature upon feature, a consistency tracker here, a growth graph there. I realised a sickening truth.
With Bluesky opening up to the public in February 2024, and emerging as a stronger alternative to Twitter, a gold rush soon began to develop third-party tooling around the paltform.
Scrappy software and AI-generated slop soon began flooding this market, along with bigger social media analytics and planning softwares adding Bluesky to their list of supported platforms.
The Why
Going through some of these tools, I deduced that a clean, fully functional, built for Bluesky platform would have potential to take up a good chunk of market share.
Even if it didn't, my time spent built building the software would at least help me learn a few more things about SaaS development.
The What
I sat and wondered what I could build. What did Bluesky users really need? Or at least that is what I wish I had done. Instead, first thing I did was open VSCode and started coding away.
I had an idea in the back of my mind though, analytics. That was what I was focusing on. But as I built feature upon feature, a consistency tracker here, a growth graph there. I realised a sickening truth.
