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How Instaustad Is Funded, and What That Means for You
Money questions about a free tool are fair ones, so here's a straightforward answer instead of a vague line buried in a footer somewhere.
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Why Instaustad Keeps Its Design Simple
People sometimes ask why Instaustad doesn't have more features — a history of your past lookups, an account so your preferences carry over…
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How Instaustad Handles Copyright and Takedown Requests
If you're a creator and you're concerned about how your content shows up through Instaustad, or you believe something has been handled…
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The Three Principles Behind Instaustad, Explained
Our About page lists three principles in a couple of sentences each. That's fine for a summary, but each one actually came from a real decision…
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How Instaustad Is Different From Other "Instagram Viewer" Sites
We're not the only site that does this kind of thing, and we're not going to pretend the category doesn't exist. But if you've spent any time…
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Why We Say No to Certain Feature Requests
We get feature requests fairly often, and most of them are reasonable. But a few come up again and again that we've decided not to build, and…
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What Instaustad Looks Like From the Outside (And Why That Matters to Us)
We know exactly what the "Instagram tool" category looks like from the outside, because we've looked at it from the outside too — and honestly…
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What Instaustad Will Probably Never Become
We've written before about specific feature requests we've turned down. This is the broader version — not individual asks, but the general…
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Why Every Page Says "Not Affiliated With Instagram"
If you've spent more than a few seconds on Instaustad, you've noticed the text reminding you that this site is not affiliated with, endorsed…
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Instaustad's Approach to Accessibility
Accessibility is one of those things that's easy to treat as a checkbox rather than an ongoing responsibility. Here's an honest account of…
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How Instaustad Handles a Surge in Traffic
Traffic spikes are a reality of running any website, and for a small utility like Instaustad, they can come without warning and at a scale that…
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What We Learned From Reader Feedback So Far
Why we're writing this at all
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What We’d Do Differently If We Started Instaustad Today
Hindsight is useful for two things: showing you're still learning and being honest about what you got wrong. Presenting a flawless origin story…
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Why Instaustad’s Design Doesn’t Follow Instagram’s Color Scheme
If you've visited other Instagram-related tools, you've probably noticed a pattern: most of them use some version of Instagram's signature…
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