How Blowhorn works
The app, the engine, the extension, the background service, and your organization's store.
How Blowhorn works
Blowhorn is a social media console that takes one message and broadcasts, reposts and amplifies it across every profile and platform your community runs, on autopilot. Five parts do it together.
The app is what you see: the menu-bar popover and the console. It shows the queue, the schedule, the runs, and the settings, and it installs updates. It never posts on its own.
The engine is what acts: blowhorn <command> run from the app, the
background service, or your terminal. Every run resolves its profiles,
reads the queue, reaches Chrome or an API, and writes the ledger. The
same engine answers the app's screens, so the app can never offer what
the engine does not know.
The extension is how the engine reaches your signed-in Chrome. It carries out the clicks and keystrokes the engine queues, inside the Chrome profile you already use, on the sites Blowhorn acts on. It makes no requests of its own.
The background service is what runs the schedule while the app is closed: one pass every ten minutes claiming the rows that are due. Quitting the app never pauses it; pausing is explicit, per machine, per organization, or per row.
Your organization's store is what the parts share: the content rows, the schedule, the profiles and their credentials, the ledgers, and the run history. Your Mac holds the app, the engine, and your Chrome sessions; the store holds everything the Macs share.
A post travels this path: a row in the queue, approved and due; a run acting as the row's profile; the platform reached through your Chrome or its API; the outcome written back to the row and the ledger. Any step the run cannot confirm stops the run instead of guessing: the row reads clicked, outcome not read, and waits for you.
Related
- The Blowhorn app, screen by screen - what you see.
- Platforms - what each platform leg does.
- Why Blowhorn uses your own Chrome - the extension leg.
- How scheduling works - the service leg.
- Preview and publish queued posts - watch the engine work.