X Writer
VS Code extension to post tweets from your editor
Details
- External ID
- 46305008
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- X
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 17, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5286259541984732
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN,I built this extension because the context switching was killing my productivity. Every time I switched to the browser to share a coding update (#BuildInPublic), I ended up doomscrolling for 20 minutes and losing my flow.Since existing extensions broke with the X API v2 changes, I decided to build my own solution focusing on privacy and the Free Tier limits.How it works:BYOK (Bring Your Own Keys): It uses your own API credentials.Security: Keys are stored locally using vscode.SecretStorage (never in settings.json).Limits: It implements a local counter to respect the strict 17 tweets/24h limit of the Free API tier.Write-only: It intentionally doesn't read your timeline to keep you focused.It's open source and my first extension. Feedback on the code structure is welcome!Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Jawuilp.... Repo: https://github.com/Jawuilp/X-writer
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- twitter client for vs code
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward VS Code extension that captures user text and dispatches it to the standard X API v2 endpoints, which AI coding assistants can generate rapidly.
Discussion
13 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: GitSocial (repository-based posting alternative), TikTok (replaced Twitter for some users), Bluesky
Concerns raised: Context switching still occurs when switching from work to social posting, Twitter relevance declining compared to past years, Bot spam on old posts
Feature requests: Add screenshots to GitHub repo / Marketplace page, Make available in Cursor editor, CLI utility version
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 21 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 22 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
- TweetMint · ph · 2026-09-17 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- x-api-dev.github.io · github · 2026-09-21 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- SendKey · ph · 2026-09-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- x-scraper-no-api · github · 2026-09-26 · 167 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- OnlyFans API · hn · 2026-03-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Dotenv Mask Editor: No more embarrassing screen leaks of your .env · hn · 2026-01-22 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- Typebase · hn · 2026-08-26 · 119 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- WriteLogs · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.33
Other launches for this product
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