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Nudgra
Open-source, self-hostable alternative to ManyChat
Nudgra is an open-source alternative to ManyChat for the Instagram automations most creators actually use: keyword DMs, comment replies, story-reply funnels, and follow-up sequences.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Maiko. Nudgra is an open-source alternative to ManyChat for the
Instagram automations most creators actually use: keyword DMs, comment replies,
story-reply funnels, and follow-up sequences.
Backstory: I was using ManyChat to run Instagram marketing for a B2C app I was
building. As I scaled across multiple accounts the bill kept climbing — and I
realized I was mostly paying for a handful of automations that are, under the
hood, just the Meta Graph API plus some webhooks. So I tried building my own.
The core that I (and most creators) actually pay ManyChat for took about a week.
I cleaned it up and open-sourced it under MIT. There are two builds of the same
product:
- nudgra-oss (this link): fully self-hostable on your own VPS — TanStack Start,
Hono, Postgres, Drizzle, pg-boss. You own the data, infra, and tokens.
- nudgra-cloud: the original build (Next.js + Convex) if you'd rather deploy to
Vercel + Convex Cloud. https://github.com/MaikoCode/nud...
It uses the official Instagram Business Login + Meta webhooks (no scraping),
encrypts stored tokens, and auto-pauses automations when something looks off, to
stay within Meta's rules. One honest limitation: no welcome-DM-on-new-follow,
because Instagram exposes no new-follower webhook.
Setup is ~15 min if you already have a VPS and domain.
I'd love feedback and whether the self-host path is smooth enough. Happy to answer anything.
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About Nudgra on Product Hunt
“Open-source, self-hostable alternative to ManyChat”
Nudgra was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #74 on the daily leaderboard. Nudgra is an open-source alternative to ManyChat for the Instagram automations most creators actually use: keyword DMs, comment replies, story-reply funnels, and follow-up sequences.
Nudgra was featured in Instagram (23.1k followers), Open Source (68.5k followers), GitHub (41.3k followers) and Marketing automation (4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 38.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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