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.

Nudgra

Open-source, self-hostable alternative to ManyChat

Open-source, self-hostable alternative to ManyChat