Social media decision
MediaFast
A small technical user can reproduce the core Reddit discovery and draft-generation workflow, but the vendor's GEO citation tracking, curated dataset scale, and team/lifetime features are nontrivial to match.
Visit website↗$49/mo
$588/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$50one-off30 h to build
$50/mo3 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 2 seats.
Open-source builds that already do this
Every project below is open source and already does this job today. Fork one, self-host it, or take the parts you need - the build prompt further down assumes an empty file, and this is the shortcut past that. Licences differ; check the one on each card before you ship. All MediaFast alternatives, with the arithmetic →
What a replacement has to do
- Find relevant subreddits for a site, generate rule-compliant post drafts with an LLM, present a daily action plan, and surface threads to comment on while tracking basic traffic/karma outcomes.
What it still won’t have
- GEO Citation Tracking (claims to surface when AI tools cite you)
- Unlimited projects / team seats and other lifetime-plan features
- Priority support, founder onboarding, and refund handling offered by vendor
- Any proprietary curated dataset of 4,200+ hand-picked subreddits and ongoing proprietary updates
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 2 seats.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
—
What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a one-user Reddit marketing dashboard with Node.js (Express), Postgres, a React frontend, and OpenAI (or compatible) for post generation. Core features: 1) fetch subreddit metadata and recent threads (Reddit API or Pushshift), 2) rank and pick allowed subreddits with simple heuristics, 3) generate rule-aware post drafts via LLM prompts and templates, 4) present a daily action plan UI listing subreddits, draft text, and suggested posting times, 5) track simple metrics (karma, clicks via UTM, and displayed visitor counts) and show a timeline. Out of scope: multi-user team seats, lifetime plan handling, advanced GEO citation detection, and hosted MCP API. Include authentication, error handling, unit tests for backend logic, and basic end-to-end tests for the main user flows.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- An open-source build was found+5
- 4 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- Evidence score63
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 4
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productMediaFast - Reddit + GEO Marketing Tool (homepage, pricing, features)
- official pricingMediaFast - Pricing and plans (homepage section)
- open sourceqeeqbox/social-analyzer
- open sourcegitroomhq/postiz-app
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
