How Postiz Grew

“The first thing I did was to create an official n8n node. Honestly, it was super easy; I just told Cursor, "Do you see my public API?" Just make an n8n node out of it - an hour of work (of course, I cloned their starter template as a base). I submitted it to n8n, and it took a while.”

Hacker News high

“Step number five is just to get traffic from everything else that you have. ... put it on LinkedIn, your newsletter, and send everybody to your GitHub.”

Starter Story high

“One of the reasons for Posties' success is being open source. And I think this is a great opportunity for any builder that's trying to build an app in 2026. And I'm super excited to tell you about it and tell you how you can get huge growth when you go open source.”

Starter Story high

“Because I'm using the command line, I can describe a lot better how to use the command line because you know API requests like so long, but command line can say, use this command line. And if it doesn't work, use this command line. If it doesn't work, use this command line. You can like iterate w...”

Mixergy high

“I started to also use automation platforms because I understood that a lot of people like to automate their scheduling because they can just like create many cool stuff. Like maybe they generate a video with VO3, put subtitles on it, and then like schedule it into Zapier.”

Mixergy high

“Then you want to go and create some issues on your GitHub repository for different feature you want people to create for you. Developers that come to your GitHub usually don't know exactly what you're building... You want to open a Discord server so developer can join fast.”

Starter Story high

“Discord for customer support is $0. ... You want to open a Discord server so developer can join fast. Go to Posties Discord and just copy the channels list, the same thing as I did.”

Starter Story high

“I see tons of SEO, just from people writing about how to use posties or putting a review about posties somewhere.”

Starter Story high

“As a summary for people who hadn't read it, essentially what he did was he got Larry, his OpenClaw agent, to post on TikTok on a regular basis these images with text on them. He needed a tool to post onto TikTok. He couldn't make a direct connection between OpenClaw Larry and TikTok. So he used P...”

Mixergy medium

“You get tons of developer actually contributing to your product. So ... they are like advocate of your product.”

Starter Story high

“Then I get one code and I give it to chat GPT, I give it to cloud, I give it to other tools. And suddenly all those tools have access to all the tools that I connected.”

Mixergy high

“One command per post. Formatted correctly for each platform. Scheduled at optimal times. Performance data fed back so Eddie gets better at knowing what converts. ... The feedback loop that made Larry smarter every single day ran through Postiz’s API.”

Postiz high

“I opened a new job on Upwork: "go to n8n groups on Skool, find the founder, and their email." Some smart people can automate the process, maybe with ChatGPT Atlas, but it's so cheap that I didn't care much. I wanted to cold outreach all of them, so first I bought a new domain and warmed up my ema...”

Hacker News high

“I was featured on "TRW" - Andrew Tate group. Not a big fan of the guy with all the rumors around him, but he was obviously not involved; it was just a mod in his group. So the mod created the template with Postiz and also used Postiz's affiliate link (great!)”

Hacker News high

“And then there is the one thing many people do, and this is usually where the biggest money lies in open source and it's self-hosting enterprise support. So imagine, for example, I build a social media scheduling tool, but I'm dealing with an enterprise that will never put their information outsi...”

Starter Story high

“There is also tons of options to list your product in different directory that have a very high domain authority, domain ranking for SEO. It also increases your credibility in general. From non-developers, they come, they see there is a GitHub, there was a contribution not so long ago. There is a...”

Starter Story medium

“Developer will not pay you. But here is what they will do for you. They'll help to build your brand. They will talk to a lot of people. Maybe they are working in a company, but there is already other people that are not developers and they are looking for a solution right now.”

Starter Story medium

“There is also tons of options to list your product in different directory that have a very high domain authority, domain ranking for SEO. It also increases your credibility in general.”

Starter Story medium

“Developers are not buying persona and they will probably not pay you. So don't try to find some elaborate way to make them to pay you. You just need to make like a very good docs and make sure they know how to use your SaaS. You can look at this as kind of like a free tier to your SaaS. Just you ...”

Starter Story high

“Okay, I know this thing. So word of mouth is like a really great channels. Tons of user generated content on social media. So every time I go and I search for posties on social media, every day I see some posts about some developer trying to sell posties.”

Starter Story high

“I bought a new domain and warmed up my email (You can use software like Lemwarm). Then you can automate with software like Lemlist. (Those are the most expensive software; you can find cheaper.) Now, the most important thing is, what do you write?”

Hacker News high

“Oliver, Ernesto, and Mau all report spending 15 minutes or less per day reviewing what their agents produce, which schedule posts and pull analytics automatically through Postiz’s feedback loop, driving growth.”

Postiz high