What is Bongsu
Bongsu publishes your planned content to your accounts at the planned time, after you have approved it with a passkey. It posts Instagram Reels, photos, carousels, Stories and Trial Reels, and comments on YouTube Shorts.
Main ideas
- Plan item. One thing to publish for one account: a Reel, or a photo, carousel or Story. It has a date and time, its texts (caption, a comment from your own account, an optional second comment, alt texts) and its media, which stay on your own storage, for example Google Drive.
- Approval. You approve an item with a passkey in the app. The approval covers the exact texts and media: change either and the item needs your approval again. An item you haven't approved is never published.
- Drafts and the inbox. Files you drop in the inbox folder on Drive, and drafts that an agent proposes, wait in the app's Drafts page. You schedule or refuse each one.
- Shorts comments. A list of your YouTube Shorts that get your comment once they are public. Each text is approved like a post.
- Trial Reels. For accounts that qualify, a Reel can be shared as a Trial Reel, shown to people who don't follow you first. Each account has a default and each Reel its own switch.
- Notifications. A push to the installed app and, if you like, an ntfy topic per workspace, plus a daily digest.
- Results and comments. A day after a post goes out, its first results are stored. New comments appear in the app, where you can reply.
What Bongsu isn't
- Not a hosted service. You run it yourself, on Cloudflare or in Docker, with one workspace per instance for now.
- Not set up by hand alone: the dashboard connects your accounts, storage and devices.
- Not tied to one way of reaching Instagram: it uses Instagram's own API, or Composio.
How a post goes from your plan to your account: how-it-works.md.