Can I vibe code Later?
Visual planner and scheduler for Instagram and other social feeds.
Later's core loop — drag posts onto a calendar, preview your Instagram grid, auto-publish on schedule — is buildable, and posting to your own business account works through the official Instagram Graph API. The friction is real, though: you must get a Meta app through review for publishing permissions, handle Instagram's media rules (aspect ratios, container creation, the two-step publish), and rebuild the visual grid planner that is half of why people use Later. A personal version is a solid weekend; matching Later's media handling and the polish of the grid preview is where the time goes.
Build a visual Instagram planner and scheduler for my own business account (a Later alternative). Let me upload media, write captions, drag posts onto a monthly calendar, and see a live preview of how my feed grid will look in order. Connect via the Instagram Graph API with OAuth, and auto-publish scheduled posts using a Vercel Cron job that runs the create-container then publish-container flow, with retry logic and a status log. Store drafts, media URLs, and schedule times in a hosted Postgres, and validate aspect ratios and caption length before scheduling. Use Next.js App Router deployable to Vercel, and note in the README that Instagram publishing requires a Meta developer app with reviewed permissions and a connected professional account.
A visual content calendar that stores drafts with media, previews your feed grid, and auto-publishes to your Instagram business account via the Graph API.
- Meta app review handled for you — you apply for publishing permissions yourself
- Multi-network support beyond what you wire up one platform at a time
- The mature visual grid planner and media library
- Hashtag suggestions, best-time-to-post, and link-in-bio extras
- Reliability when Instagram changes its media or container rules
Instagram's publishing API is fiddly and its rules move; Later keeps up with all of it and wraps it in a visual planner that is genuinely nice to use. Creators pay to plan a month of content in one sitting without ever touching the Graph API.
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