Everyone's building these over-engineered content pipelines with full-blown CMS and headless setups. So I built one in an afternoon using OpenPipe to generate the content and Airtable as the calendar/db. It's stupidly simple and costs peanuts.
* No "content strategy platform" SaaS at $300/month.
* No Kubernetes cronjobs for a few weekly blog posts.
* Just an OpenPipe prompt chain for topic ideation -> outline -> draft, piped into Airtable via a webhook.
* The whole thing runs on a scheduled GitHub Action. Terraform for the IAM roles, obviously.
It works because it's a single, linear workflow. If you need "AI-powered content orchestration," you probably need a writer, not another microservice. This gets the dull, repetitive ideation off my plate.
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