Comments on post “Buffer for Instagram”
Suprasanna Mishra
@suprasannam · Product Manager, Buffer
Hey Everyone :)
I'm Super, a product manager on the Buffer team. Excited to be on Product Hunt today and to answer any questions you might have about Buffer for Instagram!
I'm so grateful to our Buffer team and our Buffer community for helping shape this feature into what it's become.
As you may know, Instagram does not allow outside apps to post directly to Instagram via their API just yet. So while Buffer can’t do the posting for you, we’re excited to help you at every step leading right up to it! We hope it helps give you an even greater voice on Instagram.
Thanks again for your support :)
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Sar Haribhakti
@sarthakgh · Learning
@suprasannam This is awesome. I love how the technical restrictions did not stop you guys from delivering on the general promise of what Buffer stands for. Great video overview. Buffer for me = transparency + creativity + masterful customer service.
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Suprasanna Mishra
@suprasannam · Product Manager, Buffer
@sarthakgh Wow Sar - so happy that's what Buffer means to you! Thanks for taking the time to share :)
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Shahed Khan
@_shahedk · Founder @ Loom. Prev @ Upfront VC
@suprasannam This is awesome. Looks like Buffer for Instagram completes the entire suite of products I use often – and would need a scheduling tool for. I had some quick feedback on the marketing page you put together. https://www.opentest.co/share/e8...
What do you think?
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Silvia Li
@lisamsilvia · Content Marketing@ Startup Grind
@suprasannam I started using it today along with Pablo and the experience is amazing. I was spending so many hours designing IG posts and scheduling them with different apps.
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Arijit Bhattacharya
@hwk73 · Frontend Human, @freshdesk
Hi @suprasannam, I like how you shortened your name, Super. bit.ly will be proud.
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Suprasanna Mishra
@suprasannam · Product Manager, Buffer
@_shahedk Hey Shahed! First of all, Opentest is super cool and I love how you utilized it here :) Second, thanks so much for providing that great feedback. Great point that a secondary CTA at the top would've been helpful! Appreciate you taking the time :)
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Suprasanna Mishra
@suprasannam · Product Manager, Buffer
@lisamsilvia Wahoo! Thanks Silvia, so happy that this flows well for you :)
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Suprasanna Mishra
@suprasannam · Product Manager, Buffer
@hwk73 Haha thanks Arijit :P
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Shahed Khan
@_shahedk · Founder @ Loom. Prev @ Upfront VC
@suprasannam much appreciated on the OT love. Anything I can do to be helpful. Big Buffer fan here :)
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Patrick Coombe
@patrickcoombe · CEO, Elite Strategies Llc
@suprasannam ever thought of creating an app that lives inside of an Android VM / etc where you can post directly?
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Joshua Talley
@joshuatalley · Product Support Team Lead, Grundfos
@suprasannam Thanks for clarifying. Can this same functionality not enable posting on Google+? The restrictions are similar, correct?
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Ross Currie
@rossdcurrie · Founder, CrowdLoot
>I'm Super, a product manager on the Buffer team. Excited to be on Product Hunt today
@suprasannam I have to ask... are you Super Excited?
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Prateek Bagri
@prateek_bagri · B2B SaaS & Venture Capital
Hi @suprasannam Cannot add location to the scheduling posts. Will you enable adding location anytime soon?
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Suprasanna Mishra
@suprasannam · Product Manager, Buffer
@prateek_bagri Hi Prateek! Great question here, thanks for checking it out. Right now, when the time you picked for posting to Instagram comes around, we send you a push notification with the image at-the-ready so you can open it up in Instagram in a few seconds.
From there, you can go through the usual Instagram steps (add filter, etc) and there on that last step before you post to Instagram, you can add in a location!
Sorry to say because of how Instagram has set up their integration we can't prefill that location information for you so we don't have a place for you to put it when you initially schedule in Buffer.
Hope that helps! :)
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Prateek Bagri
@prateek_bagri · B2B SaaS & Venture Capital
@suprasannam That's a bummer. I wish I could schedule the posting on Instagram instead of doing it manually.
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