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Combin — Attract a targeted Instagram audience easily
Desktop tool to manage and grow Instagram safely and organically.
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arsen benda
@alexandramalis app crashing on my MacBook Pro late 2013 OS sierra! Is it a problem you've reported elsewhere?
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@arsenbenda Aresen, could you please email us at support@combin.com? We will guide you to send us logs files to fix this issue.
What awesome product design! At first I thought "ugh another IG automation tool", and "what, a native mac app??"
But it's actually thoughtfully designed, and gives a very strong first impression, especially if you've used other ones in the past. Bravo! I'm really impressed.
Going to be poking this over the next week or two.
@gnownad Thank you for your kind words, Dan, we hope you will enjoy using it!
Just subscribed. Amazing product thus far. It would be nice to be able to segment the people you follow using this tool so you can go rinse them at a later date.
@itsjlev Welcome on board, Justin! You can find your followings in Users section, so you can interact with them.
@alexandramalis Thanks. Two more feature requests: 1. Be able to avoid following/unfollowing people you've already followed/unfollowed. 2. Being able to drag and select users. Right now its either Select All or Manually click one by one. Sometimes I'd like to just drag and select an amount
@itsjlev 1. After the search, you can click on Filter button and select Hide followers or Hide followings and then have a selection of completely new users.
2. We will take it into our future features list as well as private accounts filter, thanks for suggestions, they are making sense!
@akingcreative welcome on board, Alex! We are planning to launch new features every 1-2 months, so our users are not waiting too long.
Why does the app ask for my Instagram password rather than sending me to the instagram OAuth page? Makes it seem like you guys are 1) Not approved to use the instagram API, or 2) Don't use their API at all
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@ashpangeek The application doesn't store your login or password, it calls for the access token from Instagram, so you can log in with your credentials, would it be more convenient to you to login on the OAuth webpage?
@alexandramalis That doesn't exactly make sense to me. I can log in with my credentials from the Instagram oauth page.
But yes, please do it the official way.
@dshan This. I got excited about the product and all, but the moment I saw a plain text login form within the app, I stopped right there and then. @alexandramalis Please add OAuth and I'm sold 🙏 Might be convenient if you announce it via newsletter once implemented.
Looks promising. Is it typical for the application to take forever to load the search results?
@ramgangisetty Thanks for your interest, Ram, normally it should take 1-2 minutes, it's depending on the search criteria and on the popularity of hashtags.
@alexandramalis I'm still looking at a blank screen for two of my searches. One of my other search (#math, US) gave me one result. Sorry, I'm out.
@ramgangisetty Ram, this example shows that people do not often mention location US in general. I would suggest to try searching this hashtag in some universities or schools locations.
@ramgangisetty small update, I've tried to search for #math in MIT and got 163 results so far :)
Awesome! I am using already https://hypegrowth.com for Twitter and this looks like a nice solution for Instagram :)
@famouslabs funny, we received already a lot of requests to do the same tool for twitter, will check Hypergrowth tool.
Does the app continue engaging if your computer is shut off? Also, what are the increased limits with the paid packages?
@amanda_schulze Amanda, sorry for late reply, you can contact me directly on a.malis@combin.com. yes the computer needs to be switched on, but the program can work in tray, limits will be increased till 1500 likes, comments and follows per day, both for Personal and Business plan.
How/is this different than an automation app like Archie for example? I'd like to make sure this falls under Instagram's TOS.
@amanda_schulze Amanda, the waiting time of search is depending on hashtags popularity, if you wait too long please email us on support@combin.com, we will help you! Concerning TOS see my replies above on this question.
@amanda_schulze Archie is being discontinued due to a request from Instagram and is no longer accepting new clients.
@steveraffner Thanks Steve! I was wondering more from a stance from, does Combin fall into the same boat as a tool like Archie (which was shut down)? Looking for something that will allow me to grow my account and adhere to the TOS as well.
@amanda_schulze @steveraffner Amanda, Combin doesn't use any bots or fake accounts chains, you perform all actions locally on your computer and give the right to the application Like, Comment or Follow.
Interested to see how it works in India..
Will get back with feedback on a couple of days.
PS: love the idea ❤️
@mohitghate Yes please, we are very curious about it! Normally should work perfectly everywhere...
App works as described. Great UI!
Curious about the app's limits. My main concern is Instagram's aggressive policy with bots like MP and Instagress. What differentiates your app from these bots in terms of Instagram's T&C compliance?
Btw, will the free plan be forever free? If not, any plans to offer a 'lite' paid version?
@irvingooi Ahh, we waited for this question! Combin follows the Instagram API guidelines, it's prohibited to use bots or participate in any other exchange networks for likes, comments and follows. When you click to leave the like or comment, you give the permission to application to do it on your part, this is permitted, please see the points 20, 21 and 22 https://www.instagram.com/about/...
Combin doesn't use any bots or fake accounts. Concerning the pricing question, yes the free version will be free, what do you mean about Lite paid version?
@alexandramalis Glad to know that Combin is working within the boundaries of the API guidelines! I've been waiting waiting for an app like yours for a while now -- something that allows users to crawl users and photos for manual engagement. It streamlines the entire process on a desktop setting :)
Ignore my comment on 'lite' paid. I was just curious if free will be deprecated. If so, then perhaps a cheaper lite version might be useful.
@irvingooi thanks for the kind feedback! yes, we designed the post preview to avoid that awkward, out-of-place comments :) We will think about cheaper lite version as well!
@alexandramalis Cool! Will test it on one of my accounts before using it on my main brand account. I want to get a feel for the crawl limits.
Btw, could you explain the "Intensity" settings? Is that the rate at which Combin scrapes users/hashtags?
@irvingooi Intensity is the time interval for actions performing, we recommend to setup it on Optimal.
I like this if not only because it's a cleaner web UI than the official Instagram website. I also enjoy the idea of building an actual community on insta, which this seems to make possible.
