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Social media for SaaS startups: a weekly plan a founder can keep

Most SaaS startups post the way they write docs: all at once in the week of a launch, then nothing for a month. The accounts that grow are the ones that show up every week with something real: what shipped, what a customer did with it, what the founder learned. This is a weekly plan for that: which network for which kind of post, how to turn every release into a week of posts without writing them from scratch, and how to keep going in the weeks there is no time.

Rodolfo Mota

Rodolfo MotaFounder of SPREVA

The short version

Post from the founder's profile first, and share the best posts to the company Page. Show the product working rather than a list of features: a 30-second screen recording does more than a launch graphic. Turn every release into posts the day it ships, let an AI agent draft them from the release notes, and let a queue spread them over the week. Answer questions where your users already ask them, such as Reddit and LinkedIn, and follow each community's rules about links.

Where your users are

Each network reaches a different part of the people who buy software:

NetworkWho you reachWhat to post
LinkedInBuyers, and the people who sign off on the purchaseThe founder's lessons and numbers, customer stories, a PDF carousel of how it works
XDevelopers, other founders and early adoptersWhat shipped this week, a thread on how you built it, short demos
RedditPeople asking which tool to use, in communities they trustAnswers and how-tos, posted where each subreddit's rules allow them
YouTubePeople comparing tools before they sign upDemos, tutorials and comparisons, with Shorts cut from them
Bluesky, Threads and MastodonDeveloper and tech communitiesThe same updates as on X, written to each network's length

A week of posts

Five posts a week, built from the work you are already doing:

  • Monday: what shipped last week, as a 30-second screen recording with captions: the problem, the click, the result.
  • Tuesday: one thing the founder learned this week, from a customer call, a number or a mistake, on LinkedIn and X.
  • Wednesday: a how-to for one job your product does, as a PDF carousel on LinkedIn and a short video elsewhere.
  • Thursday: a customer's result, in their words and with their permission.
  • Friday: behind the scenes: the roadmap, a question for your users, or a bug you fixed and how.

The founder's profile does most of the work

People follow people. On LinkedIn and X, a founder's post often reaches more people than the same post from the company Page, and it gets more honest replies. Post from the founder's profile, then share the best posts to the Page so it stays active. In SPREVA, connect both and choose both accounts on the same post: each gets its own tab, so the Page can say “we” where the founder says “I”. How to schedule posts to a LinkedIn company Page.

Where to post, in SPREVA: the accounts that can take the post, with X, two LinkedIn accounts and Bluesky chosen.
The founder's profile and the company Page on the same post

Turn every release into a week of posts

  1. 1

    Start from the release notes. Paste them into the Agent in SPREVA, or ask the AI agent you already work with, such as Claude Code or Codex, to read what changed and write the posts.

  2. 2

    Ask for drafts. One post for each change a user would notice, written for each network and saved in Drafts. Under Agents, Policy, you decide what an agent may do without asking: unless you change it, publishing now always asks you first.

  3. 3

    Record the screen. On Pro and Business, open the recording in Studio, cut it to the 30 seconds that show the change, choose the 9:16 format for Shorts and Reels, crop the recording to the part of the screen that matters, and add captions from what is said in it.

  4. 4

    Read each tab, then queue them. Fix what does not sound like you, and add the posts to a queue so they go out over the week, one a day.

  5. 5

    Or let your release pipeline start it. Every plan includes the REST API and webhooks: a step in your deploy can create a draft with a key that has Publishing access, for a person to finish and schedule. SPREVA's REST API.

Answer before you announce

Reddit, Discord servers and community forums are where people ask which tool to use for a job. Answer those questions well for weeks before you post your own link. Each subreddit sets its own rules on self-promotion, titles and flair: read them in its sidebar, and post about your product only where its rules allow it. In SPREVA, a Reddit post has its own title, and a flair where the subreddit uses one. How to schedule Reddit posts without breaking a subreddit's rules.

Launch day, scheduled in advance

Write the launch posts the week before and put them in a campaign of their own, so launch day is for answering people, not for copying links:

  • The week before: what is coming, and why you built it.
  • Launch day: the same hour on every network, with a demo video and the link.
  • The day after: thank the people who tried it, with the first numbers.
  • The week after: the question asked most often, answered, and the first customer story.

In Analytics, filter by the campaign to see its reach, engagement and clicks. How to plan and track a social media campaign, from the first post to the results.

Count signups, not likes

Likes do not pay for servers. Add UTM tags to every link you post, so your product analytics shows which network brings signups. Use SPREVA's Analytics for what happens on each network: reach, engagement, and clicks where the network reports them. Social media metrics that matter, and where to find them.

What stays in the apps

Replies, direct messages and community threads stay in each app, and so does a launch on a site such as Product Hunt or Hacker News. SPREVA writes, schedules, publishes and reports the posts that send people there.

Start with last month's releases

Connect the founder's LinkedIn and X and the company Page, paste last month's release notes into the Agent, and ask for a week of drafts. Every plan starts with a 7-day trial. Manage your social media from Claude Code.

Questions

How often should a SaaS startup post?

Three to five times a week on LinkedIn and X, one video a week, and an answer in a community whenever someone asks something you can help with. A queue keeps that going in a release week.

Should we post from the founder's profile or the company Page?

Both, the founder's first. The founder's posts start the conversations; the Page is where people check that the company is real and still active.

Can an AI agent write our posts?

Yes, as drafts. SPREVA connects to ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents, and under Agents, Policy you decide what they may do without asking. A person reads the drafts before they go out.

Can SPREVA post our launch on Product Hunt or Hacker News?

No. Post there yourself. SPREVA schedules the posts on your social networks that send people to it.

Can we post from our own code?

Yes. Every plan includes the REST API, MCP and webhooks. A key belongs to one workspace and can never do more than the person who created it.

Written by

Rodolfo Mota

Rodolfo Mota

Founder of SPREVA

Makes SPREVA in Portugal: the Studio, the tools an agent works with, and the publishing behind them.

From your next idea to a published video.