# s5 update #3

*龴ↀ◡ↀ龴 qcast 龴ↀ◡ↀ龴*

By [deca12x](https://paragraph.com/@deca12x) · 2024-06-28

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**\_tldr\_**

*   i realised that my idea was too ambitious and loosely defined ([houses onchain](https://paragraph.xyz/@housesonchain/s5update1))
    
*   i found a real problem to address for myself: scheduling casts on farcaster
    
*   my new idea is: build a scheduler for casts on farcaster
    

**\_idea development\_**

*   i write and schedule several weekly posts for [x.com/ethrome](https://x.com/ethrome) and for [x.com/urbeeth](https://x.com/urbeeth) using [buffer.com](https://buffer.com/)
    
*   it's not the worst experience in the world, but not the best either, so i thought: can i do this myself with the x api, maybe some library like tweety, cron jobs and a cloud server? ([https://vercel.com/templates/python](https://vercel.com/templates/python)) ...
    
    [![](https://paragraph.xyz/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9DzYE5UD6M)
    
    [![](https://paragraph.xyz/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sehQ5oABqI)
    
*   sure, i could, actually not too easy but can be done - apparently the x api is notoriously hard to work with. however... my friend and neighbourhood lemon (co-founder of urbe.eth) suggested, why not do one for farcaster? then we could automate posts on both platforms!
    
*   so off i went figuring out how to do this... the cron jobs and server part remain the same, but the key tool will be the neynar sdk to post directly from a script [https://docs.neynar.com/docs/how-to-create-a-farcaster-bot](https://docs.neynar.com/docs/how-to-create-a-farcaster-bot)
    
*   a nice to have would be to still connect to the x api, so that when my tweets scheduled on buffer are published, my app sees them and reposts them as a farcaster cast! not sure yet if we'd use this feature.
    
*   my mvp has 3 steps:
    
    *   1\. cast from script using neynar
        
    *   2\. schedule a cast with a cron job
        
    *   3\. host my app on a cloud server so it runs 24/7
        
*   first things first. i am late as i have been finishing off [https://beearly.club/](https://beearly.club/) submission for the base onchain summer buildathon
    
*   so now i need to build a toy version this weekend. i need to build step 1 at least, 😋

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*Originally published on [deca12x](https://paragraph.com/@deca12x/s5-update-3)*