Distribution without a hire
A planned posting cadence and drafted replies give you consistent presence months before a marketing hire is affordable.
Built for Startups
An AI social media manager for startups
Early-stage teams need distribution but cannot spare a founder for daily posting. FounderReply builds a persona from what you actually do, plans the content, and drafts replies on Reddit, X and Bluesky — with an autonomy dial you keep tight early and loosen as the output earns it.
Free to start · from $29/mo · no credit card required
5
networks you can connect today
10
in the directory, pending ones included
4
actions with their own autonomy dial
0
actions that start unattended
What it does for an early-stage team
Approve-first, then autopilot
Start with human approval on everything, then raise the dial action by action — publishing first, replies later, growth comments last if ever.
On-brand from day one
Your voice and positioning are captured once into an editable persona and applied to every draft after that.
How it works
From what you do to a draft you release.
Four steps, and you are in front of every one of them until you decide otherwise.
- 1
Describe what you do
Tell the agent what you sell and who you serve. It drafts a brand persona — tone, do/don’t rules, banned topics — that you edit and keep.
- 2
Connect accounts you already own
You do the connecting, on accounts that are already yours, two-factor included. Nothing is created for you and nothing is rented — and disconnecting an account takes it away from the agent the moment you do it.
- 3
Set the autonomy dial
Keep approval on for everything, or raise it one action and one network at a time. Every action starts at the safer of our own default and that network’s policy position, so nothing begins unattended — and if you move one past what the network allows, the app names the rule you are crossing and records the decision as yours.
- 4
Review, edit, release
Drafts land in a queue. Approve, edit or skip each one — and your edits are recorded and fed back, so later drafts need less work.
Where this happens
The communities, and what each one allows.
Founder communities span the whole tolerance range, and getting it wrong is how first posts get removed. r/SideProject and r/buildinpublic are open to sharing what you built; r/startups and r/ycombinator are strict. Each rules page says which is which.
r/startups~1.7M · strictEarly-stage founders discussing fundraising, product, hiring, and growth.r/ycombinator~70k · strictStartup founders discussing the YC ecosystem, fundraising, and early-stage building.r/buildinpublic~25k · openFounders building products in the open and sharing progress, metrics, and lessons.r/SideProject~250k · openMakers shipping side projects and sharing what they built.
Safety model
We don’t do the things that get you banned.
It works on accounts you connected yourself, with human approval by default — a safe, checkable posture from your first investor or customer call.
What the agent will and will not do
The right-hand column is the load-bearing one: a list of refusals is checkable, and a list of adjectives is not.
Always
Acts only from accounts you connected yourself, and loses one the moment you disconnect it
Reads the whole thread before it writes a word, and leads with the answer
Holds every draft in an approval queue until you release it
Starts every action at the safer of our own default and that network’s policy
Never
Posts without your approval, unless you raised the dial for that action
Uses a shared, rented, aged or “managed” account
Raises DMs or comments under other people’s posts for you — those ship gated
Treats promotion as the pattern rather than the exception
FAQ
What people ask before they connect an account.
Usually yes, but not a launch announcement. r/buildinpublic and r/SideProject are open to work-in-progress; r/startups and r/ycombinator are strict and reward a lesson or a number over an announcement. The persona is built from what you are actually doing, which is what makes those posts specific enough to survive.
As fast as the output earns it, and never past the platform. Autonomy is stored per action type, so you can raise publishing to automatic while replies stay approve-first. The platform ToS cap sits above your setting: on Reddit nothing goes automatic, and growth comments are off by default everywhere.
There is a free tier with one connected account and a monthly reply cap, and paid tiers add publishing, more accounts and higher limits. Pricing is generated from the plan catalogue rather than typed into marketing copy, so the pricing page is always what Checkout actually charges.
Ready when you are
Startups: distribution that costs you a review pass, not an afternoon.
Approval is on by default and every action starts gated — nothing posts until you say yes. Raise the autonomy dial only where the output has earned it.
Free to start · Approval on by default · No card required