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Hi, I'm Roberto and I run http://statimgram.com. We are Buffer for Instagram. We are officially launching this week, but we already have some paying clients using the system. We had some early press coverage: http://launchdfw.com/2016/07/07/statimgram-fills-void-instag... and I contacted a couple of local advertising agencies. I'm also a professional photographer and this product is something a lot of professional photographers told me they need. If anyone would like to test Statimgram for free (or have any question), please shoot me an email to roberto@statimgram.com. Cheers!

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Hello Roberto, if you don't mind me asking I have 2 questions for you.

1) According to Instagram's guideline for developers, your app can't have words like "insta" or "gram" in it, how did you pass this if you are using an actual application in Instagram?

2) As far as I can see from the API documentation there is no way of posting your pictures to Instagram directly via API. Does your application send push notifications when time comes and give ability to create a post in Instagram by one click in the app or do you ask for username / password and login to the app and do what needs to be done?

Hello there, I'm happy to answer.

1-I'm not using instagram's API, those limitations do not apply to Statimgram.

2-Idem before. We save (encrypted) username and password. We don't send "reminders" like hootsuite or other solutions, we post directly into IG.

Here's a small (this is 5 months old, the new UI looks much better!) demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGwV6lBi8Us

Thanks for the answer. I don't want to discourage you for your project, but this action is stricly forbidden on Instagram's Terms of Service (https://help.instagram.com/478745558852511 Item 10)

Using this to sort out your own problem would probably fine as they will not notice it, but selling this as paid service might cause some trouble for you with Instagram Legal and also at the same time if you keep using same IP Instagram will probably block your APi after some time when they sense the usage.

Just a friendly notice for the things you might face in near feature :)

I really appreciate your concern. I said we weren't using IG's API, but I never said we were using their private API either ;-)

i admire your boldness but this is probably going to be a dead project soon. Maybe make a quick buck while you can?

Edit: because reverse engineering their api is also against their guidelines. Just because you don't use their official api, doesn't mean you don't have to adhere to their rules.

Congrats on your project, but why do you have scroll hijack on your website?

For the price table animations most likely.

We're working on getting that fixed ASAP. Sorry.

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