How I replaced hours of manual work with a self-hosted AI agent

Every time I publish content I burn over ten hours putting it everywhere else. Articles to Medium, Substack, Dev.to, Hashnode. Posts to LinkedIn personal and company. Threads to Twitter. Comments across Reddit and trade communities. Each platform wants the content slightly different. Each one needs a canonical URL pointing back to the source. Each one is fifteen to forty minutes of copy paste, format fixing, tag selecting. Ten plus hours a week of distribution across articles, posts, comments, s