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Social Cockpit

A self-hosted command center for your Instagram presence - analytics, publishing, inbox, and hands-off engagement automations.

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StatusActive
Runs onYour machine
StackNext.js · TypeScript
LicenseMIT
social-cockpit - dashboard
Social Cockpit's dashboard on a dark amber-on-charcoal theme: a followers line climbing to 28,760, readouts for posts, average likes and comments, a video-views bar chart, an hour-by-hour best-time-to-post instrument, and a posts-per-day strip.

Why

Every Instagram tool I tried wanted an account, a subscription, and full access to my profile. Social Cockpit runs entirely on your own machine. Nothing is sent to a third party, there is no service to sign up for, and the data stays on disk where you can read it.

What it does

  • Analytics - follower growth, reel views, posting cadence, and an hour-by-hour best-time-to-post instrument.
  • Compose Studio - drag a reel, photo, carousel, or Story off your desktop, caption it, preview it, and publish.
  • Scheduling - a drag-and-drop calendar for Instagram and YouTube. Book a slot against a slug and let the worker choose the video when the slot comes up.
  • Inbox - read and reply to comments from one threaded view instead of the app.
  • Automations - a comment → follow → DM funnel that runs unattended, with send caps and an API-usage meter you control.
  • MCP server - drive the scheduler from Claude Code or any MCP client, over the same HTTP API and validation the UI uses.

Running it

Clone the repo, add your credentials to a local .env, and start the stack. It serves a dashboard on localhost and keeps a background worker alive for scheduled jobs.

The rest of the cockpit
  • A week in Social Cockpit's scheduling calendar, Aug 24-30, with published Instagram Reels and a YouTube Short placed across the days and a live now-line.Scheduling calendar
  • Social Cockpit's automation builder: engagement flows with sent counts on the left, and on the right one flow opened - keyword trigger, comment replies, the DM it sends - with an API-usage meter below.Automation builder
  • Social Cockpit's post explorer as a grid of original editorial cover art, each card tagged VIDEO with an engagement figure and a small bar, above summary tiles for reach and engagement.Post explorer

Scheduling, engagement automations, and the post explorer - the same fabricated demo account throughout.