# 📝 Content Pipeline

> [!WARNING]
> Still under active development — this covers the current shape, not a finished architecture. Included deliberately rather than only showcasing finished work.

## The intended shape

```mermaid
flowchart LR
    Idea["Idea"] --> Draft["Drafting"]
    Draft --> Review["Review"]
    Review --> Approved["Approved"]
    Approved --> Published["Published"]

    Approved -.glue via automation tool.-> Storage["Draft/asset staging"]
    Approved -.glue via automation tool.-> Blog["Published blog"]
    Approved -.planned, not yet wired.-> Social["Social platforms"]
```

A structured content tracker moves ideas through a status pipeline, with a workflow-automation tool gluing the stages together: approved content flows through to a file-storage staging area and out to a public blog. A separate, still-incomplete leg is meant to fan approved posts out to social platforms automatically.

## A deliberate constraint, not a limitation stumbled into

> [!TIP]
> The social-publishing tool is **single-origin by design** — its frontend/backend URLs are baked to one specific public hostname at configuration time, so it deliberately has no presence in either internal DNS zone described in [`docs/dns-naming.md`](dns-naming.md); any other hostname hitting it fails CORS. This was a conscious choice, not a workaround: the tool is meant to be reached exactly one way.

## A real surprise in scale

> [!IMPORTANT]
> The social-publishing tool's real deployment footprint is 8 containers, not the app+database+cache most people would guess — it bundles its own workflow engine (mandatory for all of its background jobs, including scheduled posting itself) plus that engine's own database and search-based visibility store. A useful reminder that a tool's advertised simplicity and its actual operational footprint can be very different things.

## What's actually built vs. what's still wiring up

| Piece | Status |
|---|---|
| Content tracker → automation → draft storage → blog | Most built-out, working end to end |
| AI-assisted drafting step | Still being wired up |
| Social-publishing fan-out | Still being wired up |

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Related stacks: [`stacks/productivity/postiz/`](../stacks/productivity/postiz/), [`stacks/productivity/nocodb-content/`](../stacks/productivity/nocodb-content/), [`stacks/productivity/ghost/`](../stacks/productivity/ghost/)