Plingo
Social Media Scheduler for Designers and Developers — Discontinued
Overview
A social media scheduling platform built for designers and developers to manage Twitter and LinkedIn from a single dashboard. Supported one-click multi-month scheduling, a built-in credit system, and payment gateway integration. Discontinued after the Twitter API restructure.
Tech Stack
Next.jsTypeScriptNode.jsMongoDBtwitterframer-motiongsaplinkedInTailwind CSS
The Process
Plingo was built to solve a specific pain point for creatives and developers who manage their own online presence: the time cost of posting consistently across platforms. Rather than juggling separate tools, Plingo offered a single dashboard to plan, schedule, and automate content across Twitter (X) and LinkedIn — with up to months of posts queued and published with a single click.
The product was designed around simplicity and speed. A visual calendar gave users a full view of their content pipeline, making it easy to spot gaps and maintain a consistent posting rhythm. Post previews rendered in real time, so content looked exactly right before it went live. A smart scheduling engine handled timezone-aware publishing across both platforms simultaneously.
Beyond basic scheduling, Plingo included a credit-based system for power features, with a payment gateway built in to purchase credits. New users received 100 credits on signup — enough to experience the full product before committing. The architecture used Next.js, MongoDB, Node.js, and OAuth integrations for both social platforms, with GSAP handling interface animations.
Development was halted following Twitter's 2023 API restructure, which made third-party scheduling tools economically unviable for independent developers. The infrastructure was shut down shortly after, and the project was officially discontinued.
Note: Plingo is no longer active. The project is included here as a record of shipped work — a real product with a real user base that was discontinued due to external platform changes outside the developer's control.
The product was designed around simplicity and speed. A visual calendar gave users a full view of their content pipeline, making it easy to spot gaps and maintain a consistent posting rhythm. Post previews rendered in real time, so content looked exactly right before it went live. A smart scheduling engine handled timezone-aware publishing across both platforms simultaneously.
Beyond basic scheduling, Plingo included a credit-based system for power features, with a payment gateway built in to purchase credits. New users received 100 credits on signup — enough to experience the full product before committing. The architecture used Next.js, MongoDB, Node.js, and OAuth integrations for both social platforms, with GSAP handling interface animations.
Development was halted following Twitter's 2023 API restructure, which made third-party scheduling tools economically unviable for independent developers. The infrastructure was shut down shortly after, and the project was officially discontinued.
Note: Plingo is no longer active. The project is included here as a record of shipped work — a real product with a real user base that was discontinued due to external platform changes outside the developer's control.