I wanted to start a blog. I had a niche, I had opinions, and I genuinely wanted to write. But every time I sat down to publish something, I hit the same wall: I had nothing to say today. The blank page won every time.
The problem wasn't ideas. It was the starting point. Writing from zero is hard. Reacting to something is easy. So I did what any developer does when they don't want to do the actual work: I built a tool to do it.
The idea: What if, instead of writing from scratch, I could pull articles from feeds I already follow, let AI synthesize them into a draft, then edit that draft until it actually sounds like me?
Step three is the whole point. I'm not trying to automate my blog. I'm giving myself something to react to instead of a blank page. The AI draft is rough clay. I'm still the one shaping it.
How It Actually Works
Step 1 — Pick your sources. You connect RSS feeds in your niche. When new articles come in, you browse them and select the ones you want to merge. You can also add saved notes or drop in a URL directly. Any mix of the three works.
Step 2 — Configure the generation. This is where it gets interesting. You're not just hitting "generate":
- Prompt — custom instructions for what angle to take
- Goal — seo, storytelling, technical, or viral. Each one shifts how the AI approaches the piece.
- Heat — precise, normal, or wild. Controls how creative vs. conservative the output is.
- Reference articles — paste in up to 5 of your own past posts. The AI extracts tone samples from them and tries to match your style.
- Language — generates in whatever language you want
- Word count — min and max bounds
- Quality — standard or premium model, depending on how much you care about that particular post
Step 3 — AI does its job. It first summarizes each source individually, then composes the full post from those summaries. The whole thing streams back in real time; you watch the text appear as it writes. Usually takes 20–40 seconds, depending on length.
Step 4 — Edit. You land in a full WYSIWYG editor. Auto-saves every 30 seconds. This is the part that actually matters — you read it, fix what's wrong, add your own take, cut the parts that don't sound like you. The AI got you past the blank page. Now you do the actual work.
Step 5 — Publish. Pick your platform (Ghost, WordPress, Medium, or any custom JSON API), then choose your mode: publish live now, save as a draft on the platform, or schedule for a specific date and time. Set a featured image and URL slug if you want, then send it.
Did It Work?
Posts published before Clypify: zero. Posts published after: more than zero, which is an infinite improvement.
More seriously — having a draft to react to changed everything. Even when I delete half the AI output and rewrite the rest, I'm still faster than starting cold. My problem went from "I have nothing to write" to "this draft has the wrong angle" — which is a real problem I can actually solve.
The Honest Part
This is a developer solving their own specific problem in the most over-engineered way possible. I built a multi-service platform with a mobile app and a streaming AI pipeline so I could stop staring at a blank page. A normal person would have just started writing.
But I ship things better when they're projects. So this is what I did. And now it works.
Clypify is at clypify.com.
