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ZyVOP — developer publishing hub walkthrough
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export async function test(page, baseUrl, screenshotPath, stepLogger) {
const SITE = (baseUrl || 'https://zyvop.com').replace(/\/$/, '');
const DRAFT = '/what-a-visual-regression-baseline-actually-catches-duiby/edit';
let n = 0;
const shot = async (slug) => {
n += 1;
const p = String(screenshotPath).replace(/\.png$/i, '') + '-' + String(n).padStart(2, '0') + '-' + slug + '.png';
await page.screenshot({ path: p, fullPage: false });
stepLogger.log('frame ' + n + ' ' + slug + ' :: ' + page.url());
};
const settle = async (ms) => { await page.waitForTimeout(ms); };
const go = async (path, ms) => {Checks run
Notes from the demo run
AI-generatedWe signed up with Google, finished the three-step onboarding, wrote a real 110-word draft in the editor and then walked the signed-in product: dashboard, post manager, the editor with its publishing settings and preview, series, subscribers, analytics, profile, integrations, notifications, security, badges, leaderboard and the AI news feed. The Integrations screen is the strongest argument you have and it is buried three clicks into settings: eleven destinations, eight of them cross-posting, each with a one-line explanation of what syndication to that platform actually does to your canonical URL.
- The canonical-URL story is told on every surfaceThe import step says 'Canonical URL Preserved - articles import as drafts with original canonical SEO signals'. The Medium card says 'publish stories with a configured preferred-source URL'. The footer says 'Zero reader paywalls, full content ownership'. Most cross-posting tools make you find out about canonical tags after they have already cost you rankings.
- Eleven integrations with honest scope labelsLinkedIn, Dev.to, Hashnode, Bluesky, Medium, Mastodon, HackerNoon, WordPress for cross-posting, GitHub automated backup and a ZyVOP API/CLI/MCP entry for developer tooling, plus bring-your-own Groq key. The 'Automated Syndication Engine' sitting above them with configurable publication delays is the feature, and it is presented as one switch.
- The editor gets out of the wayTitle, body, Rich/Markdown toggle, cover image and subtitle as optional chips rather than required fields, live word count and read time, and an autosave that stamped 'Saved 01:15 AM' without us asking. Draft to saved took one click.
- Your best screen is three clicks deep and invisible from the dashboardThe Integrations page is the reason someone chooses ZyVOP over writing directly on Dev.to, but nothing on the dashboard points at it - the four dashboard cards are Manage Posts, Manage Series, Subscribers and Analytics. A 'connect your first platform, 0 of 11' card next to those would put the differentiator in front of every new author on day one.
- Google sign-in issues a single-use refresh token, so a second session silently signs the first one outWe captured a signed-in session, used it once, and both that copy and the original browser were bounced to /login on the next request. Rotating refresh tokens are a fine security choice, but with no grace window a user who opens ZyVOP on a laptop and a phone will keep getting logged out of whichever one they touched first, and the symptom looks like a random session bug.
- Publish / cross-post·The draft was deliberately left unpublished - we never posted to your platform or to any connected destination
- Dev.to / Hashnode / Medium import·Skipped in onboarding rather than pulling a real archive in
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