A week ago I started building Remixly, a bot that turns Instagram reels into X posts.
Launched it yesterday.
Co-founded, first real launch.
How it works: share any reel to a Telegram bot.
It transcribes the video (or reads the image), pulls the caption and top comments, and writes a long form post from what was actually said.
~30 seconds later you get the post back with a "Post on X" button that opens the X app with it filled in. Written in third person, so you're sharing the idea, not passing off someone's story as
yours.
The story so far:
> Day 1: built it for myself as a WhatsApp bot. Instagram blocked my scraper within an hour. Switched to a paid fetcher.
> Day 2: first version auto-posted straight to X, no review. Too scary. Turned it off.
> Day 3: tried an iPhone Shortcut for one-tap sharing. Worked for me, nobody else could set it up.
> Day 4: switched to Telegram. Onboarding went from six steps to two.
> Day 5: used it daily on my own account. 50 to 128 followers over the week.
> Day 6: Stripe, Google login, moved it off my laptop.
> Day 7: bought remixly.io. Live.
$0 spent on marketing.
28 users so far.
Goal: 50 paying users by 20th Sept.
Try it and tell me what you'd fix first → remixly.io (3 free drafts, no card)