Changelog

What's new in PostEngage

Everything we ship, as we ship it.

new

Live chat, inside the app

Talk to the founder without leaving PostEngage. Share screenshots too; every image is checked before it's shown.

improved

Upgrade any time, pay only the difference

Moving to a bigger plan mid-month now charges the prorated difference, and your extra credits land straight away.

new

Prices in your currency

USD everywhere, INR in India.

new

Alerts when a connection needs attention

Get told the moment Instagram access expires or a permission is missing, before replies stop.

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PostEngage v2

A rebuilt platform: safety checks on every reply, held replies with reasons, voice learning, and a new dashboard.

Rebuilt from the ground up: one API instead of five services that disagreed about ports and cookies, Postgres instead of Mongo, and a policy gate that every outbound message passes through rather than three code paths that each decided for themselves. What that is worth to somebody using it comes down to four things.

  1. Every refusal has a reason you can read. Ten checks run before a reply is drafted, in a fixed order, and the one that stopped a send is recorded with the sentence explaining it. The old build recorded that a send failed.
  2. Templated replies stopped costing anything. A credit is spent when the model writes something new. Your own written template goes out free, and unlimited, including when your credits are gone.
  3. Takeover is structural. The moment you reply to a thread by hand, the automation stands down in it. It is a gate check, not a setting.
  4. Nothing is metered per contact. One viral post does not produce a larger invoice.
new

Discovery integration

Keyword monitoring feeding engagement triggers, and one dashboard covering both finding people and answering them.

v0.4.0

new

Credit usage in the dashboard

What was spent, broken down by day, week and month, so a bill stopped being a surprise at the end of it.

v0.3.2

improved

Reliability

Comments were being missed during traffic spikes, and reconnecting after an Instagram token expired needed a hand. Both fixed.

The missed-comments bug is the reason ingestion in the rebuild writes an event down before deciding anything about it, and deduplicates on a key rather than on timing. A retry can now arrive twice and reply once. The post on what a comment window actually is covers why the timing matters so much.

v0.3.1

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Auto DM

Trigger-based direct messages, new-follower and story-mention triggers, and templates the model could rewrite in your own register.

v0.3.0

new

The activity feed

Every action the automation took, filterable by type, with the original comment beside the reply that went out.

This is the feature that became the most-used screen in the product, which is why the rebuild extends it rather than replacing it: the same view now lists what was refused, with the check that refused it. How that reads in practice.

v0.2.0

new

The first release

Instagram comment auto-reply, voice training from your own past replies, credit-based billing, and a dashboard.

Two decisions from that week survived every rewrite since: replies are priced per reply rather than per contact, and the voice is learned from things the account owner actually wrote rather than from a tone picker.

v0.1.0

What shipped, and when

Every release since the first one, newest first. The August entry is a rebuild rather than a feature, which is unusual enough to explain properly.

Most changelogs are a list of wins. This one has to carry a rebuild and three removals, so it is written as a record rather than as an announcement.

What the rebuild left behind

What a version number means here

Nothing, deliberately. There is no semantic-versioning promise on a hosted product that you do not install: the number exists so two people can refer to the same release in a support conversation, and that is all it does.

What matters more is which of these you are on, and the answer is always the most recent one. There are no long-lived versions, no upgrade window, and no release you can be left behind on. That is the good half of not shipping software you run yourself.

Why the entries got shorter

Because most of what we do now is not a feature.

The work in the rebuild is windows, retries, dedupe keys and refusal reasons — the things that decide whether a reply that should go out does, and whether one that should not is stopped. None of it makes a good changelog line, and all of it is what people actually notice. A month where nothing new appears in this list but no comment was missed is a better month than the reverse.

How to be told

There is no release-notes mailing list. Connection alerts and the weekly summary are the only email we send, and both are switchable in notification settings. If you want the shape of what is coming rather than what has landed, the roadmap is honest about how little of it is promised, and the security page covers what changes when we ship something that touches your data.

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