Outpour
Write one long-form article in markdown. Schedule it once. Publish it everywhere.
Outpour is a free, open source tool for writers who post the same article in several places. You write it once, in plain Markdown. Outpour sends it to each site for you, now or at a time you pick, and keeps a list of where every post landed. Run it again after an edit and it updates those posts instead of posting twice.
For developers: get it free on GitHubFor writers: join the hosted waitlist
Where it publishes
Dev.to
Your full article, with tags and cover image. Send it as a draft first, or publish it live.
Nostr (NIP-23)
Long-form posts on Nostr, signed with your own key. No sign-up, no fees, no approval.
Medium and Hashnode
Full articles through their official connections. Medium also has a simple copy-and-paste option.
WordPress and Ghost
Your own blog is covered too.
How it works, in three steps
- Write once. Your article is one Markdown file, the plain-text format every writing and dev tool already uses.
- Pick where and when. Choose the platforms, publish now, or set a time:
outpour publish post.md --to devto --to nostr-longform --schedule "tomorrow 9am" - See the links. Outpour posts everywhere and shows you the live link for each place. If one site fails, you see exactly which one and why.
Connect your favorite editor
Outpour reads plain Markdown files, so it is compatible with every Markdown editor. There is no plugin to install inside your editor. How it connects depends on how the editor stores files:
- Folder editors connect live. Point Outpour at the folder once and every file in it is ready to publish: Obsidian, VS Code (including Foam), Zettlr, iA Writer, Logseq. The same goes for the content folder of a static site (Hugo, Jekyll, Astro, Eleventy) and for any Git repository of Markdown.
- Single-file editors connect by import. Write in Typora, MarkText, Ghostwriter, MacDown, Apostrophe, or ReText, or in a plain text editor like Sublime Text, Vim, Neovim, Emacs, or Notepad++, then bring the file in with the import button in the web UI, or drop it into the content folder.
- Web editors connect by export. HackMD, HedgeDoc, StackEdit, and Dillinger export Markdown; Outpour imports it.
- Database apps connect one way, by export. Notion, Bear, Ulysses, Scrivener, and Joplin keep notes in their own database rather than as files, so the route is their Markdown export into Outpour's import. Honest limit: that is a one-way trip, not a live sync.
- AI tools connect directly. Claude Code and other MCP clients publish through Outpour's MCP server. Drafts from ChatGPT or Claude come in as .md files, like any other article.
Quickstart
pip install git+https://github.com/fanpost/outpour export CRIER_DEVTO_API_KEY=your-devto-key outpour publish post.md --to devto --draft
Free option: let GitHub run the schedule
This page is served by GitHub Pages. The scheduler can run there too: Outpour includes an automatic schedule that checks every 15 minutes, publishes whatever is due, and saves the results back. No server, no hosting bill.
Or let us run it for you
Self-hosting still means installing Python and keeping something running. The hosted version skips all of that:
- Sign in and connect your accounts once: Dev.to, Medium, Hashnode, Nostr, WordPress, Ghost.
- Write in your browser or drop in a Markdown file. Pick a time. Done.
- We run the scheduler around the clock and show you the live link for every post.
Expected price: $19 a month. Join the waitlist and you lock that founding price for good. You get one email when it opens. Nothing else, no newsletter.
Four short questions, about 30 seconds. The last one asks which platform you miss most, and it shapes what we build next.
Status
Current release: v0.2.1, with the test suite green at 1520 tests. Outpour is a fork of the MIT-licensed Crier and keeps that license and attribution.