Hype Engine is a self-hosted social publishing and workflow-automation platform for teams that want to plan, schedule, and run social content without giving up control of their data and infrastructure.
It combines publishing, scheduling, analytics, recurring content, and visual automation workflows in a practical web interface with background-job automation.
Explore it now: try the live demo or run it locally with Docker.
Hype Engine grew out of a real search for a social publishing tool that was easy to use, capable, and affordable. After trying Postiz, reaching the limits of Mixpost's free version, and finding that Blotato was becoming too expensive, the project's founder decided to build—and open-source—the alternative he had been looking for.
The goal is simple: give makers, teams, and businesses a free, self-hosted way to automate social posting without surrendering control of their data or infrastructure. Read the full founder story.
The live demo is the quickest way to see the product. The 78-second silent tour below walks through the project dashboard, post management, and content calendar.
Watch the higher-quality WebM tour, view the dashboard screenshot, or browse the marketing media gallery.
| Area | What Hype Engine provides |
|---|---|
| Plan and publish | Multi-project social-account management, drafting, scheduling, recurring posts, and publication history. |
| Organize content | A media library, tags, and calendar views for planning a content schedule. |
| Review results | Reports and API access for working with publishing data. |
| Automate externally | A project-scoped API that works with tools such as n8n, plus one-time and daily or weekly recurring posts. |
| Build visual flows | An n8n-inspired drag-and-drop builder with trigger, logic, AI, HTTP, and publish nodes, currently under active development. |
| Connect channels | Publishing support for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and X/Twitter, with TikTok on the roadmap. |
| Keep control | Separate web and background-job processes designed for self-hosting. |
You need Docker Desktop (or another Docker Engine with Compose v2).
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up --buildReplace the placeholder DBPASS and JWT_SECRET values before startup, then
open http://localhost:3000. Health endpoints are available at
http://localhost:3000/health and http://localhost:3001/health.
For native Node.js setup, database migrations, and troubleshooting, see the development guide and the FAQ.
Hype Engine v0.1.0 is now available. It is an early public release: interfaces and migrations may evolve before 1.0, and the visual workflow builder and additional provider support are still being developed. Please report security issues privately as described in SECURITY.md, and use GitHub issues for reproducible bugs and focused feature proposals.
Contributions are welcome, whether you improve the interface, documentation, test coverage, Docker experience, provider integrations, or workflows. Start with CONTRIBUTING.md, then use the architecture guide and shared vocabulary in CONTEXT.md to orient yourself.
For a small, scoped first pull request, browse the
good first issue
tasks. Larger contributions are listed under
help wanted.
Use GitHub Discussions
for reusable questions, ideas, project feedback, and sanitized showcases.
Hype Engine is licensed under GNU AGPL-3.0-or-later. If you modify it and offer the modified program over a network, users must be offered the corresponding source code under the same license.