About

JOQ is the home of the Headline Post Maker: a free tool that turns a photo and a headline into a post sized for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and X, with the key words of the headline set in a box.

Who makes JOQ

I’m Nikola Resulaj. I’m 29, I’m from Albania, and I built JOQ and run it on my own.

I studied sports at Marin Barleti University and played football at a semi-professional level. Sport and technology were always my two hobbies. In 2020, during the lockdown, I made a choice between them: sport would stay a hobby. A wage in Albania was around 500 dollars a month, and I did not see sport becoming my main income. So I turned to the other one.

Six years of news pages

I looked at the market and saw that people love to talk about news, on every kind of topic. I opened my first social media pages, but before posting much I studied the pages that were already doing well: what each one focused on, how they wrote the titles of their articles and how their post images were designed. Then I worked out my own idea and a plan, and stuck to it.

I grew pages on Instagram and Facebook. On Instagram alone, three pages went from zero to 105,000, 56,000 and 180,000 followers, all of it organic, without a single paid campaign. Each served a different purpose: one covered sports, one entertainment and one uplifting news.

After three years of working only on social media, I started a news website of my own and used the pages to bring readers to its articles. I have now worked with social media pages and websites for more than six years.

The part that never got easier

One job made me nervous for years: making the images. On a normal day I wrote 15 to 20 articles, and every article needed its own images for social media in two sizes, one for the post and one for the story. That is 30 to 40 images a day, each one made by hand.

I worked from my phone, so Photoshop was no help: it is not made for a phone, and it takes real editing skill. Canva made things easier when it came, but every image still took time, every page needed its own look, so I kept switching between designs, and many of the designs I would have used were on a paid plan. What I wanted was simpler: paste the article’s link, get its photo and headline, mark the words that matter, save in both sizes. None of the tools I used worked that way.

Why I built JOQ

JOQ is the tool I needed back then. I built it so that people who run pages the way I did do not lose the hours I lost. With the headline written, a post takes me less than ten seconds.

Free, with no limit. There is no paid version, every template is free, and you can make as many posts as you need.
On any device. It runs in the browser on a phone, a tablet or a computer. Nothing to install.
No design skills needed. Each template already decides the size, the font and where the text goes. You add a photo, type the headline and tap the words that go in the box.
Start from a link. Paste the address of an article and the tool fills in its headline and photo.
Every size at once. Feed (4:5), square (1:1) and story (9:16), one at a time or all three in one download.
Your page’s look, remembered. Your handle, logo, colour and font are kept in your browser, and your last 12 designs can be reopened, so the next post starts where the last one ended.

How it works

The tool runs in your browser. Your photos are opened and drawn on your device and are never uploaded to this site.
There are no accounts and no sign-up.
Every template is drawn at 1080 pixels wide in three sizes: 4:5 for feeds, 1:1 square and 9:16 for stories.
The headline is fitted to each template: it gets smaller as it gets longer and is never drawn outside the post.

What JOQ does not do

It does not write headlines, check whether they are true or post anything for you. What you type is what goes on the post, and you need the rights to every photo you use.

The example photos

The photos in the template examples are public-domain and CC0 photos from Wikimedia Commons. Each one is credited, with a link, under the image it appears in.

Contact

Questions, problems with the tool and ideas for templates are welcome: write to me at nikolaresulaj7@gmail.com or see the Contact page.