🚀 I Got Medium Distribution Without Rewriting a Single Post (Built a Tool to Automate It)
Everyone says “cross-post to Medium for distribution.”
But in practice that means:
• Copy-pasting every post
• Fixing broken formatting
• Forgetting canonical links and hurting SEO
• Manually publishing again and again
So I built PublishRelay — a tiny tool that syncs your WordPress blog to Medium automatically.
What it does:
• Detects new WordPress posts instantly
• Cross-posts them to Medium via the official API
• Sets canonical links back to your original post (SEO-safe)
• Preserves formatting, images, lists, and code blocks
• Lets you choose draft vs auto-publish and which categories to sync
You write once on WordPress.
You get Medium distribution automatically.
No copy-paste. No SEO damage.
Free to try here:
👉 https://publishrelay.com
Curious how other founders handle distribution — do you cross-post manually, or just ignore Medium entirely?
Nice idea, this could be a good way to test it. There’s a competition where you can submit it — entry is $19 and winner gets a Tokyo trip. Also, prize pool just opened at $0 so chances are best right now.
Solid distribution hack — the insight that structure matters more than rewriting is exactly right. Medium's algorithm rewards clear formatting and semantic hierarchy, not just keyword density.
The same principle applies to the AI tools you're using to automate this: prompts that separate "context" (the original post) from "transformation instructions" (how to adapt for Medium) from "constraints" (tone, length, SEO rules) produce dramatically better output than one big unstructured request.
I built flompt for exactly this — a visual prompt builder that decomposes prompts into 12 semantic blocks and compiles to Claude-optimized XML. For content repurposing workflows, having clean input/output/constraints blocks makes the AI outputs reliable enough to ship without heavy editing.
A ⭐ on github.com/Nyrok/flompt would mean a lot — solo open-source founder here 🙏