About Outbox

Why we built it

Our team publishes illustrated stories to several Facebook Pages every day. Each post has an image, a caption, and a comment that carries the link to the full story. Doing this by hand, across several phones and accounts, was slow and easy to get wrong.

Outbox puts that routine on one screen: prepare the post, choose the Page, review it, publish it, and see the result. It uses Meta’s official Graph API and the permissions each Page manager grants.

Where it stands today

Outbox is used by the operator’s own team, on Pages the team manages. It runs on a computer controlled by the operator, and access is given by the operator. It is not sold, and there is no public sign-up.

Photo posts, link comments and Reels have been published with it on live Facebook Pages. Facebook Login, the queue and scheduling, multi-Page management and comment tools are built and are being rolled out on live Pages.

How we approach it

We would rather stop than publish something twice. When the tool cannot tell whether Facebook received a request, it does not send it again; it checks, and if it still cannot tell, it asks a person.

We ask Facebook only for the permissions the tool uses, and we describe the tool as it is. If the way it handles data changes, this website and its policies are updated before the change.