What is Dargo IGbot?
IGbot is a small web app that watches your Instagram posts and replies automatically when someone drops a triggering keyword in the comments. Run a giveaway? Reply with the link by DM when someone comments "link." Selling a product? Reply with the order page when someone comments "buy." All of it from a tiny dashboard that lives on your own device.
It's the bit of automation a creator usually rents from a SaaS for $30–$100/month — except here the keyword rules, the message log, and the engagement stats all sit on your hardware. You configure it once, leave it running, and check the dashboard when you want to see what fired.
What you get
- Post-level automation rules — pick any of your posts, add the keyword triggers you want, choose the reply message. Multiple keywords per post, multiple reply variations.
- Message log — every automated reply IGbot sends is logged with the comment that triggered it. Searchable, filterable, no third party touches it.
- Live dashboard — engagement stats per post, the most-triggered keywords this week, recent activity stream.
- Dark mode — toggle, persists across sessions.
- Custom domain or *.mydargo.com subdomain — picked when you install. HTTPS cert is auto-issued and renewed by Dargo.
- Your data, your box — keyword rules + log live in a SQLite file on the device. Take a snapshot, copy it elsewhere, restore — it's just files.
Install on your Dargo device
Open the AppStore in your portal
Sign in at my.dargo.net, pick the device you want IGbot to run on, and open the AppStore tab.
Find IGbot, click Install
IGbot lives in the Social category. Pick a free *.mydargo.com subdomain (e.g. jane-igbot.mydargo.com) or point a custom domain at it.
Connect your Instagram account + set up your first rule
Open the dashboard, link your account, pick a post, and add the keyword trigger. The next comment that matches gets the auto-reply you configured.
Pricing
IGbot itself is free and open-source. Running it on Dargo uses some of your device's traffic + storage allowance — the same allowance that already covers every other AppStore install. Even a busy creator account will barely move the needle on monthly usage.