“Get these drafts posted”
That’s close to word for word what one dassi user typed. The captions were written, the images were picked and signed off, and what was left was the dull part, where somebody opens Instagram on a laptop and posts them one at a time, fiddling with the crop and pasting captions and checking the hashtags survived the paste, which is the kind of job that quietly moves to next week every week.
Most small businesses asking about Instagram automation want that part gone. The rest want help with the inbox.
dassi does the posting from your own account, on instagram.com, in the browser you already use. There’s no Graph API or developer app involved, which is why it works on whatever account you’re already signed into, personal or business.
Example: the week’s approved drafts
Say your content lives in a Google Sheet with columns for caption, image, status and approved-by.
- dassi reads the sheet and takes only rows marked approved. A row with an empty approved-by column is skipped even if the status says ready.
- It opens instagram.com, starts a new post, attaches the image, and pastes the caption exactly as written, typos included if you approved typos.
- For the first few runs it stops at the final screen so you can look before Share. Later you can let approved rows go straight through.
- It writes the post link and time back into the sheet.
Put that on a schedule, Tuesday and Thursday at 11 say, and keep in mind that scheduled runs happen in your own browser, so it has to be open at 11. Images must be under 5 MB for dassi to attach them. Export at web size, not straight off the camera.
The inbox problem
A customer asks about shipping under a post from Tuesday. By Friday it’s buried under forty heart emojis and they’ve ordered from someone else.
The second workflow goes through recent comments on your own posts and your DMs, message requests included, and makes one list: who wrote, what they asked, a link, and a draft reply. Questions and complaints sit at the top, and plain reactions don’t make the list. You fix the drafts you don’t like and approve the ones to send. Sarcasm is the weak spot. “Love waiting three weeks for a candle” can land in the wrong pile, so skim the bottom of the list as well, at least until you’ve seen how it sorts your particular audience.
Where it stops
dassi won’t follow accounts, like posts or comment on other people’s posts for you, and it won’t DM anyone who hasn’t messaged you first. Instagram throttles following, liking and messaging, and accounts that push past its limits get action blocks. It doesn’t publish those thresholds, so we can’t give you a number that’s safe. Our advice is to schedule roughly what you’d have posted by hand. Its terms also bar collecting information in an automated way without permission, which is why dassi sticks to your own posts and your own inbox and doesn’t pull other accounts’ followers into spreadsheets.
When Instagram signs you out, dassi logs back in with whatever Chrome’s password manager autofills and you enter the 2FA code. The captions, comments and messages it reads go to the AI model you picked, through dassi’s relay if you’re on included credits.
If you also run a Facebook Page or sell on Marketplace, the Facebook page covers that side. Replies to reviews follow the same approve-first pattern in review response drafting, and a scheduled posting run usually ends up as one line in recurring browser administration, next to whatever else you do every Tuesday. We also keep pages for marketers and small business owners.