https://www.solosoft.dev/tags/open-source-sustainability/Recent content in Open Source Sustainability on SoloSoftHugoen-usTue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.solosoft.dev/post/openreply-manychat-alternative-audit/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.solosoft.dev/post/openreply-manychat-alternative-audit/<p>Someone comments <code>LINK</code> on your reel. OpenReply queues a DM with your link, through Meta&rsquo;s official private-reply API, and optionally posts a public reply under the comment. That is the entire product, and it is the one feature every social tool sells as a monthly subscription.</p> <p>OpenReply is MIT-licensed and self-hosted. There is no hosted plan to upgrade to — the public demo at <code>openreply.diwen.dev</code> is a dashboard demo and will never send a DM for you. You deploy your own copy, run your own worker, and connect your own Instagram account.</p> <p>I cloned it and checked the numbers, the docs, and the free tier it recommends. The engineering is better than the average &ldquo;open-source alternative&rdquo; launch. The documentation is more honest than most commercial vendors&rsquo;. And the most interesting thing about the project is a boundary that is documented in a subordinate clause and determines whether the whole thing is free or not.</p>