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Open‑source social media scheduler SaaS (Postiz clone)

Ship an open‑source social media scheduling app, offer a hosted SaaS with tiered subscriptions and an identical self‑hostable repo.

Summary

Build an open‑source social media scheduler that supports many platforms, publish the full repo (self‑hostable) as your free tier, and sell a hosted, paid SaaS with tiered features and channel limits.

Problem

Many teams need reliable cross‑platform scheduling but distrust closed systems and want the option to self‑host while preferring hosted convenience.

Target customer

Small agencies, marketing teams, indie SaaS founders and companies wanting centralized scheduling across many social channels, plus developers who self‑host.

Solution

Open‑source project identical to the hosted product so developers can self‑host, plus paid hosted plans (standard/team/pro/ultimate) with extra features, more channels, AI tools, media conversion, and better reliability/SLAs.

Business model

monthly/yearly hosted saas subscriptions (tiered)upsells for team/enterprise featurespaid addons: increased api limits, white‑labeling, priority support

Distribution

github (open‑source visibility)niche communities (subreddits, hacker news, dev.to, lemi)seo and user‑generated contentdiscord for support and community

Required skills

full‑stack development (next.js/node/etc.)api integrations with social platformsdevops/docker/ciproduct ui/ux and analyticssaas pricing and subscription management

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