Our app runs its own Instagram accounts: how the autopilot works, and week 1's real numbers

Description and use

HypeFox automates short‑form video creation and posting on Instagram using planning, AI script generation, TTS, and Remotion rendering. In week 1, the accounts posted 9 and 7 videos, totaling 1 074 and 1 019 views, but did not acquire sign‑ups.

Problem

Automating short‑form video creation and posting for new Instagram accounts without manual editing.

Outcome

In week 1, the app posted 9 and 7 videos on the English and Italian accounts respectively, achieving 1,074 and 1,019 views with average watch times of ~6 s. No sign‑ups were generated, but the system demonstrated full automation of video creation and posting.

Workflow

• Plan a weekly schedule every Monday with slots, roles, formats, hooks, and ideas.
• Select formats for core slots using Thompson sampling based on past performance.
• Every 10 minutes, a Postgres cron job queues approved slots that are due within 30 hours.
• Generate a script with a language model, fact‑check it, and produce a JSON scene file.
• Use text‑to‑speech to create audio and timings, then render 1080×1920@30fps with Remotion inside a container.
• Post the rendered video to the scheduled Instagram slot.
• Collect reach, watch time, and actions, normalize them, and update format scores after 7 days.
• Repeat the cycle.

Evidence

I build HypeFox (hypefox.app), an AI app that makes and posts short videos for YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels and TikTok on autopilot, with or without your face.

Source

Every Monday, in the audience's time zone, a worker plans Monday to Sunday: the slots (at the audience's best times, up to 2 a day), a role for each slot (core format, sales or test, with fixed shares counted over the last 4 weeks), the format for each slot, a hook and an ending, and an idea.

Source

A Postgres cron job (pg_cron) checks every 10 minutes for approved slots going out within 30 hours and queues the video.

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Remotion renders 1080×1920 at 30 fps inside a container that only runs when there's work.

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In week 1, the app posted 9 and 7 videos on the English and Italian accounts respectively, achieving 1,074 and 1,019 views with average watch times of ~6 s.

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