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I'm not a developer, but boy, can I code. Vibe code, that is. Thanks to the help of several AI coding tools, I’ve built upwards of 10 personal apps and tools in the past year: a step tracking tool, a fitness dashboard, several productivity tools, and a content calendar that plugs straight into Buffer's API. I’m currently working on an app that will help me cater to the very diverse needs of my harem of houseplants.

Danny Hieber, Ph.D., studies how words spread. A term can start in a tiny group and then, slowly, get repeated hundreds, thousands, even millions of times in different places by different people. Eventually, it becomes part of a language, and nobody remembers where it started. He promotes his newsletter in the same way. Danny is the linguist behind Linguistic Discovery, a weekly newsletter about the science and diversity of language.

Josh Allan Dykstra is a keynote speaker and self-described optimistic futurist who has spent 20 years on one problem: making work not suck. He's worked on it as an author, an entrepreneur, and a tech founder, for clients including Microsoft, Amazon, CHANEL, and the State of Colorado. These days he hosts Hello Tomorrow, a Substack podcast about the global systems that shape ordinary life, and he's finishing his second book, Work Will Kill Us All: An Optimist's Guide To The Future.

Reading time 3 minute read It's one of the most-requested integrations we've ever shipped, with over 1,100 upvotes on the request. Little wonder, given the explosive growth we've seen on the platform over the past year. Substack is fast becoming a powerful way for creators and brands to share, grow, and earn. So we're delighted to share that Buffer is now connected to Substack Notes.

Kevin Indig writes Growth Memo, which goes out weekly to more than 29,000 founders, in-house leads, and marketing leaders. He spent 10 years as an operator and leader at Shopify, G2, and Atlassian, and now advises Meta, Airbnb, and Reddit on growth. The Memo runs on original research into how search and AI are changing — Kevin, in his own words, swims in data all day. "Publishing is only half the job — you also need a repeatable way to distribute your work.

Facebook is one of the few OG social media networks that’s stood the test of time (RIP MySpace 🥲). When it launched, you couldn't schedule posts or connect your Instagram account because... well, Instagram didn’t exist yet. Over the years, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, added Instagram (then WhatsApp and Threads) to its portfolio, opened the door for businesses to connect with their audiences, and launched features to help creators grow on its platforms.

Social data is more accessible than ever. We released Insights at Buffer, and with a button, I can export my data very easily (I would’ve probably cried with joy to have this feature as a social media manager in 2014). Now, in addition to all of our social data, we also have the power of AI at our fingertips.

At a glance Customer: Dustin Kuhns, founder of Kuhns, Inc. Based in: Mid-Atlantic, US What he does: Consulting for arts and culture organizations, connecting their strategy to social, email, and the rest of their communications Channels in Buffer: 10+ How he uses Insights: Tags campaigns by theme and subject, then reads performance back across a full year to shape what his clients post and program next Dustin Kuhns started using Buffer in 2023.

A few weeks ago, one of our engineers, Andy Yates, got an email at his personal address. It was from the team at TRMNL, who make beautifully minimal e-ink displays with a thriving plugin ecosystem behind them. Part of their job is scouting the best plugins people build on the platform, and they'd spotted a private one called "Buffer." They wanted to know if he'd be up for releasing it to everyone. What they didn't know was that Andy actually works at Buffer.

For a long time, my ideas were scattered everywhere. Some were in my Notes app. Others were screenshots on my phone that I’d never opened again, or buried in old Claude conversations. Sometimes I'd remember a good line from a voice note I recorded months ago, but have no idea where to find it. Everything was saved somewhere, just never anywhere I'd look when it was time to make something. And even with this mega-level disorganization, I had been getting by fine.