Building a Content Distribution Platform with FastAPI and Python

Publishing content across multiple platforms can quickly become repetitive. Each platform has its own API, authentication requirements, request formats, and error-handling behavior.

I built IncuBrix Distribution to explore how a single API can coordinate content publishing across multiple destinations.

The architecture

The backend uses FastAPI and Pydantic for request handling and validation, SQLAlchemy for database persistence, and Alembic for database migrations. A connector-based architecture separates platform-specific publishing logic from the core workflow.

Six connector types

Discourse

Lemmy

DEV.to

Ghost

Generic HMAC-signed webhooks

Assisted publishing

The publishing workflow

A client submits content through the API. The application creates a publishing job, applies configured rules, validates the destination, invokes the appropriate connector, and records the outcome.…