{"slug": "show-hn-trypost-open-source-social-media-scheduler", "title": "Show HN: TryPost – open-source Social Media Scheduler", "summary": "TryPost, an open-source social media scheduler, launched today, allowing users to batch, schedule, and publish content across Instagram, X, TikTok, and other networks from a single drag-and-drop calendar. The platform offers AI-generated captions and images, real-time collaboration, and self-hosting options for free, positioning itself as a transparent alternative to proprietary tools. The move to open-source aims to give creators and agencies full data control and avoid vendor lock-in.", "body_md": "A solo creator\n\nBatches a week of content on Sunday afternoon, queues it across Instagram, X, and TikTok in one calendar, then logs off. The week's posts ship on schedule while she's filming the next ones.\n\nTryPost writes your captions, generates your images, and schedules across your social media, all from one visual calendar. Or connect Claude or Cursor to run it for you.\n\nBig news. We're going open source today 🚀\n\nSelf-host for free, or run on our cloud.\n\nDrag any post to a new slot, filter by network or workspace, see your full social media calendar in one view.\n\nNew product drop is live 🎉\n\nWhy we open-sourced our stack\n\nshipping a redesign today\n\nreal talk on consistency\n\n10 networks in 30s 📅\n\nBehind the scenes\n\nSpring mood board 🌸\n\nCustomer of the week\n\nopen > closed 🦋\n\nFriday vibes ✨\n\nfederated > centralized\n\nSunday recap 📊\n\nFollowers, reach and engagement from every major social network in one chart. No CSV exports, no waiting on syncs.\n\nThe six things you'll use every week, designed to feel familiar from day one.\n\nSee every scheduled post across all networks in one drag-and-drop calendar. Reorder by dragging, never wonder what's queued for Friday.\n\nSet the time, walk away. TryPost publishes via each network's official API and notifies you only if something fails.\n\nInstagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, all from a single composer.\n\nReal-time presence shows who's editing what. Inline comments replace email threads. Approval flows stop launch-day mistakes.\n\nOne place for every image, video, and asset. Reuse a creative across networks without re-uploading or re-cropping.\n\nSee your post the way each network will render it. Instagram crops 4:5, X cuts to 16:9. Catch the off-by-one before you publish.\n\nSeparate workspaces per client, approval threads on every post, comments to request changes, and a shareable link so clients can approve without an account.\n\nBig news. We're going open source today 🚀\n\nSelf-host for free, or run on our cloud.\n\nGreat direction. Let's swap the rocket emoji for ✨ to match the spring campaign?\n\nLooks great after the change. Ship it!\n\nSame calendar, different scale. TryPost stretches from one creator queueing TikToks to an agency juggling 30 brand accounts.\n\nBatch a week of content on Sunday, queue it across Instagram, X and TikTok in one calendar, ship the rest of the week without opening five apps.\n\nDesigner drops the visual, copywriter writes the caption, both edit the same post live. Approvals replace email threads. Brand kit keeps voice and colors consistent.\n\nOne workspace per client, separate brand kits, per-client reviewers. Switch context in one click instead of logging in and out of 15 dashboards.\n\nWhat makes TryPost the right choice for content creators and businesses.\n\nNo vendor lock-in. View the source code, self-host on your own servers, or contribute to the project on GitHub.\n\n⭐ Star usDeploy on your infrastructure for full control and privacy, or use our managed cloud service.\n\nYour data stays yours. No tracking, no selling your information. Full transparency in how we handle data.\n\nConcrete scenarios that show how creators, agencies, and brands use TryPost day-to-day. Yours might look like one of these.\n\nA solo creator\n\nBatches a week of content on Sunday afternoon, queues it across Instagram, X, and TikTok in one calendar, then logs off. The week's posts ship on schedule while she's filming the next ones.\n\nAn agency owner\n\nRuns 15 clients in 15 separate workspaces, with reviewers per client and shared brand kits. The whole team schedules from one dashboard. Approvals move from spreadsheets to inline comments next to the post.\n\nA small business owner\n\nA bakery owner schedules a week of pastry posts in 30 minutes. Previews every photo across networks before it goes live, so the framing fits Instagram's 4:5 and X's 16:9 without re-uploading.\n\nA freelance social media manager\n\nMigrated from Buffer when per-channel pricing got steep. One TryPost workspace covers her four freelance clients on the same plan, and the calendar filter switches between client views in one click.\n\nA lifestyle blogger\n\nPlans a month of content by topic pillars (recipes, travel, gear) and uses the calendar to see the mix at a glance. The best-time-to-post tool surfaces audience-active windows once 30+ posts are tracked.\n\nAn e-commerce brand manager\n\nPosts across six platforms for a Shopify store. Designer drafts the visual, copywriter writes the caption, both work in the same post. Review thread, no Slack threads. About 10 hours of cross-tool coordination saved per week.\n\nA solo creator\n\nBatches a week of content on Sunday afternoon, queues it across Instagram, X, and TikTok in one calendar, then logs off. The week's posts ship on schedule while she's filming the next ones.\n\nAn agency owner\n\nRuns 15 clients in 15 separate workspaces, with reviewers per client and shared brand kits. The whole team schedules from one dashboard. Approvals move from spreadsheets to inline comments next to the post.\n\nA small business owner\n\nA bakery owner schedules a week of pastry posts in 30 minutes. Previews every photo across networks before it goes live, so the framing fits Instagram's 4:5 and X's 16:9 without re-uploading.\n\nA freelance social media manager\n\nMigrated from Buffer when per-channel pricing got steep. One TryPost workspace covers her four freelance clients on the same plan, and the calendar filter switches between client views in one click.\n\nA lifestyle blogger\n\nPlans a month of content by topic pillars (recipes, travel, gear) and uses the calendar to see the mix at a glance. The best-time-to-post tool surfaces audience-active windows once 30+ posts are tracked.\n\nAn e-commerce brand manager\n\nPosts across six platforms for a Shopify store. Designer drafts the visual, copywriter writes the caption, both work in the same post. Review thread, no Slack threads. About 10 hours of cross-tool coordination saved per week.\n\nThe questions we get most. If yours isn't here, ask in support and we'll answer.\n\nAsk any AI assistant. They've read our docs, our blog, and the open source code. Get a straight answer in seconds.\n\nConnect your accounts, write once, queue across every major social network. Open source. Self-host free, or start a 7-day cloud trial.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-trypost-open-source-social-media-scheduler", "canonical_source": "https://trypost.it/en", "published_at": "2026-05-25 20:25:55+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-25 20:37:33.374730+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["TryPost", "Instagram", "X", "TikTok", "Claude", "Cursor", "LinkedIn", "Facebook"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-trypost-open-source-social-media-scheduler", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-trypost-open-source-social-media-scheduler.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-trypost-open-source-social-media-scheduler.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-trypost-open-source-social-media-scheduler.jsonld"}}