No code app builders are all the rage in application development and have been gaining significant traction in the market. These powerful tools allow you to quickly build applications, web apps or mobile apps, with minimal or no coding skills. …
Cold starts slow down your entire site, but there finally is a fix
A few weeks ago, one of the biggest recent Firebase features was quietly announced — a solution for the Firebase Cloud Functions cold start problem.
If you use Cloud Functions, you know the issue very well: new instances of your server often needs to be created from scratch, which can…
On September 14th, 2021 Facebook released their latest Graph API version 12.0 and Marketing API version 12.0. When Facebook releases an update to their social media APIs, it is important to pay attention since they often contain new features, major bug fixes, or breaking changes. …
Last year we published one of our most popular articles on the best social media APIs for posting and scheduling. It got a lot of attention from platforms, CMS, agencies, and companies that want to programmatically post on behalf themselves or their users. …
The Secret: Focus on Docs, Problems, and Packages
When we began building our SaaS product Ayrshare, an API that connects to social networks for posting, we strongly felt that we would not be able to tap into our core target market if we only focused on the traditional marketing and engagement route. …
Understand the promising function with an exciting use case
This article is not about promises, async/await, or the single-threaded nature of Javascript. It is about the Promise.all() function and how you can bring your independently running functions or tasks together into a beautiful result.
As is often the case, an example or use case will prove useful.
Use Case: Post to Multiple Social Media Networks
Twitter Fleets are here! They are new. They are exciting. They are innovative. They are…well, kind of a copy of other social networks.
Twitter has entered the ephemeral posting game that players like Snapchat or Instagram stories have been in for a while. They offer a create space to post…
If you have a blog or newsletter, you probably have an RSS feed, which simply is the blog’s content in a machine-readable format. You probably also have social media accounts, like Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn. …
When we started Ayrshare we were keen on using an infrastructure as a service platform and avoid server setup, SSL certs, opening ports, etc. Time to market, right. Amongst the many platforms out there we choose Firebase. It was an easy decision for us since we are very comfortable with…
When you manage your social media presence there are two distinct types of posts: manual and automated.
Manual posting and scheduling is when you type up a post and choose a time for it to be published, usually via a scheduling tool (there are some great ones out there).
Automated…
Geoffrey Bourne
Co-Founder of ayrshare.com — an API-first platform to automate your social media posts with a few lines of code.
