Inspired by @numericcitizen and his editor, I set out to use Vercel and build a custom Micro.blog editor for my 3 blogs.

I made a free (hobby) account at Vercel and then got to work in Claude Code. Told it what I wanted, and for the first try, it was pretty good. It took me about 4 hours working with CC to iron out all the kinks. The biggest problems were with the media folder, uploading photos, and making cross-posting work correctly. But we got through all the issues, and it is working very nicely.

I can choose which blog to post to, and it automatically populates the media folder, cross-posting options, and categories. I can send it to MB as a draft or a post. I can save the drafts locally as a JSON file and/or download all files.

Hats off to @manton for a nice API to work with, @numericcitizen for the inspiration, and Claude Code for the ease in making something like this, because it is way beyond my skill level.

I put the web app behind a password-protected splash screen, since it is custom to my blogs only. I can only imagine the havoc if someone nefarious got into this. There are other security measures I can deploy as well. Vercel has been easy to use and understand. Their hobby plan seems sufficient for now. Interesting note: Vercel has its own AI agent. Once you connect your GitHub account, it can send its own pull requests. I let it send a PR for adding analytics, and it worked very well. Kind of fun to watch it all take place over on GitHub.

I’m going to use this for a while and see if it sticks. It’s really not needed because there is such a nice Mac App for MB that this is not necessary, but it sure shows you the possibilities. One area where it may come in handy is on the road with just my iPad; I can use the Web App to post.

I think my next project may be making an iOS app.