Creating Your First Project

What the onboarding asks you, why it asks, and what happens when you hit launch.

A MediaFast project is one product on one social account. Creating it is a short guided chat: you answer a handful of questions about your product and your Reddit account, review the subreddits MediaFast picked, and launch. Your day-by-day plan is generated in about a minute.

What questions does the onboarding ask?

Marketing type: Traditional or GEO
Traditional grows your product with Reddit users directly. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) builds Reddit presence so AI tools like ChatGPT start recommending your product. GEO is a longer game, and you can switch between the two later without losing progress.
Your product link and pitch
A website, App Store, or Google Play link. MediaFast analyzes the page to prefill your description, then asks for a short pitch and 3 to 5 concrete use cases so the plan targets real problems your product solves.
Your account: karma, age, activity
Karma range, account age, and how recently you were active. These three answers shape everything: fresh or young accounts get a slower, safer plan with a warm-up phase, established accounts get a fuller schedule. Answer honestly, the plan only protects you if the numbers are real.
Ban history
If you were banned before or run multiple accounts, MediaFast warns you about account chaining and points you to the clean-setup rules (see the Rules section of these docs) before you start.

What is the subreddit review step?

Before generating the plan, MediaFast shows you the subreddits it picked for your product. For each one you can accept it, ask for a replacement, or type your own. If a subreddit has posting requirements your account does not meet yet (minimum karma or account age), MediaFast flags it and adds a comment-only warm-up community alongside it so you can build up to it instead of getting rejected.

What happens after launch?

MediaFast generates your timeline and drops you into the dashboard. Day 1 is usually setup (joining your subreddits), then the daily tasks begin. A short guided tour walks you through completing your first task. From there, the loop is simple: open the dashboard, do today's task, check it off.

On the trial?

Trial accounts can create up to 2 projects and see the first tasks of each plan. Upgrading unlocks the full roadmap, Reddit account connection, and chat support.

Your Daily Roadmap

How the timeline works: daily tasks, checking them off, and what to do when you fall behind.

The roadmap is the heart of your dashboard: a timeline with one Reddit task per day, generated for your product, your subreddits, and your account's karma and age. Your job is to do today's task and check it off. The timeline auto-scrolls to your next incomplete task every time you open it.

What kinds of tasks are on the timeline?

Comment days
Leave a set number of helpful comments in your target subreddits, no promotion. Clicking a comment task shows you real, recent threads in that subreddit worth commenting on, so you never stare at a blank feed wondering where to start.
Post days
Publish a post in a specific subreddit. Clicking the task opens the AI post generator with a draft written for that community. Review it, refine it, then post it from your own account.
Setup and milestone days
Day 1 is usually setup: joining your subreddits and getting your profile in order. Checking off any task earns XP, keeps your daily streak alive, and moves your rank forward.

What if I miss a few days?

Life happens. When tasks go overdue, the dashboard offers Get Back on Track: it reschedules your remaining tasks starting today, opening with two comment-only days so your account eases back in instead of jumping straight to a post after silence. Prefer to catch up manually? Dismiss it and work through the overdue tasks yourself.

Is there a calendar view?

Yes. Next to the timeline view there is a month-grid calendar of the same plan. Click any day to see its task. Use whichever view fits how you plan your week.

Can I switch between Traditional and GEO mid-project?

Yes, at any time. Switching keeps every task you already completed and regenerates only the remaining days in the new style. Traditional optimizes for reaching Reddit users directly, GEO optimizes for getting your product mentioned where AI assistants look.

The one habit that matters

Consistency beats volume on Reddit. One completed task per day, every day, outperforms a burst of activity followed by a quiet week, and it is exactly what the streak system rewards.

Generating and Scheduling Posts

How the AI post generator drafts subreddit-native posts, and how the scheduler and post inbox work.

On posting days MediaFast writes the post for you. Every draft is written for the specific subreddit it targets: its tone, its rules, and what its members actually upvote. You always review before anything is published, and nothing is ever posted without you.

How do I generate a post?

Open the task, get a draft
Click a post task and MediaFast drafts a title and body for that subreddit, shaped by your product pitch, your use cases, and your account's age (young accounts get link-free, name-only drafts automatically).
Refine it in plain words
Not happy with the draft? Type an instruction like "make it shorter" or "mention the pricing angle" and the generator rewrites it. Repeat until it sounds like you.
Pick it and post
Pick the version you like and it stays pinned to the task. Copy the full post or just the body, publish it on Reddit from your own account, then check the task off.

Can I schedule posts in advance?

Yes. The scheduling flow lets you batch-generate the upcoming posts in your plan, edit each one, and confirm them as a set. Scheduled posts land in your Post Inbox, where you can edit the title, body, or date, or delete them, any time before they go out. LinkedIn and Bluesky projects have their own schedulers with the same flow.

How do I know if my posts are working?

The dashboard tracks the performance of posts you publish, upvotes and engagement, so you can see which subreddits and which angles are pulling their weight. Combined with your karma display in the project header, you get a running picture of whether the account is growing.

A draft is a starting point

The best-performing posts are usually AI draft plus 2 minutes of your own voice: a specific detail, a real number, a sentence only the founder could write. Subreddits smell pure automation from a mile away.

Managing Your Subreddits

How to swap a subreddit that is not working and keep your plan focused on the right communities.

Your plan targets a small set of subreddits on purpose, but no selection is final. If a community turns out to be a bad fit, too strict, too quiet, or just not your audience, you can swap it without regenerating the whole plan.

How do I swap a subreddit?

Open Manage Subreddits
The Manage Subreddits menu in your project header lists every active community in your plan. Pick the one you want to replace.
Say why, get alternatives
Tell MediaFast why it is not working ("mods remove everything", "audience too broad") and it suggests replacement subreddits that fit your product. You can also type any subreddit yourself.
Confirm the swap
All remaining tasks for the old subreddit are rewritten for the new one. Completed tasks stay untouched, your history is yours.

Why does my plan include a subreddit I cannot post in yet?

Some subreddits require minimum karma or account age before you can post. When one of your best-fit communities has requirements you do not meet yet, MediaFast keeps it in the plan as a target and pairs it with a comment-only warm-up community, so you build the karma to qualify instead of getting auto-removed on day one.

When should you swap?

Give a subreddit at least a week of honest activity before judging it. Slow is normal early on. Swap when the mods are hostile to any product mention or the audience is clearly wrong, not when a single post underperforms.

Connecting Your Accounts

How Reddit, LinkedIn, and Bluesky connections work, and how accounts map to projects.

Each MediaFast project runs on one social account. Connecting your account lets the dashboard track your karma, warn you about risks, and surface post performance, and you can manage several accounts across projects from one place.

How does the Reddit connection work?

You attach one Reddit account to one project at a time. Once connected, MediaFast tracks the account's karma and health and tailors advice to it. When a project's plan finishes, the account frees up and you can attach it to your next project. Reddit connection is available on paid plans.

What about LinkedIn and Bluesky?

LinkedIn connects through OAuth. Tokens expire periodically, so when the dashboard shows a token warning, one click reconnects it.
Bluesky connects with your handle and an app password, generated in your Bluesky settings, so your real password never touches MediaFast.

Running multiple Reddit accounts?

The dashboard is built for it: separate projects, separate accounts, one overview. But keeping multiple accounts alive on Reddit's side has strict rules about IPs, devices, and browser fingerprints. Read Multiple Reddit accounts in the Rules section before you create the second account, not after.

Connection is optional, the plan is not

You can run your whole roadmap without connecting anything, the tasks work either way. Connecting simply gives MediaFast eyes on your karma and post results so its advice gets sharper.

AI Preferences

How to make every generated post sound like you, globally and per project.

The post generator learns your voice from two places: account-level preferences that apply to everything you generate, and project-level preferences that apply to one product. Set them once and every future draft starts closer to how you actually write.

What can I set at the account level?

Tone of voice: a short description of how you write, casual, dry, technical, whatever is true.
Things to avoid: words, phrases, or angles the AI should never use.
Custom instructions: formatting habits and standing rules, like short paragraphs or no exclamation marks.

You will find these in Settings under AI Preferences.

What can I set per project?

Each project has its own About My Project notes, avoid-list, and custom instructions, layered on top of your account-level settings. Use them for product-specific context the AI should always know: positioning, the competitor you never name, the feature that always lands.

Small inputs, big difference

Two sentences of honest tone description beat an empty field every time. The generator writes subreddit-native posts by default, your preferences are what make them founder-native too.

Managing Multiple Reddit Accounts

How to run more than one account without Reddit chaining them together.

Some of you come in after a previous ban, start working the plan, everything looks fine, and then you get banned again and ask why. Almost every time the reason is the same: Reddit chained your new account to your old banned one. It links them through your device, your home IP, or your browser fingerprint. Here is how to set up clean so that does not happen.

Heads up, managing multiple accounts is already built into your MediaFast dashboard, so you can run them all from one place.

First time, never been banned?

You are good. Just follow your plan like normal, no special setup needed. The steps below are not for you.

Running more than one account? Do these:

Use mobile data, never home WiFi
Your home WiFi IP is the easiest way for Reddit to link all your accounts together. Always create and run the new account on mobile data.
Use a clean separate browser (AdsPower)
AdsPower is a laptop app that gives each account its own browser with a unique fingerprint, font, and OS profile, basically a fresh identity Reddit cannot tie to your old setup. It has a free trial that covers 2-3 browser profiles. If you cannot use AdsPower, the next best thing is a different physical device, or at least a different browser.
Reset your IP before logging in (if you run 1-2 accounts)
Each time before you open an account, turn airplane mode on for about 30 seconds then off. That gives you a fresh mobile IP.
Avoid VPN and VPS
These are risky and a lot of them are already flagged by Reddit, so they can get you banned faster, not slower.
If you really need dedicated IPs
You can buy IPs from a provider like Oxylabs, but always check the quality first, cheap or abused IPs will get you flagged anyway.

Follow this and your accounts stay clean, the warm-up plan handles the rest. Any questions, drop them in the dashboard chat.

I Got Banned, What Now?

The clean restart checklist so your new account does not get chained to the banned one.

Ban happens, it is not the end. But the single biggest mistake now is rushing to create a new account from the same setup. Reddit remembers your device, your IP, and your browser fingerprint, and it will chain the new account to the banned one within days. Set up clean from the start and you are fine.

The golden rule

The new account must share NOTHING with the banned one. Not the IP address, not the device, not the browser, not the email. One shared fingerprint is enough to get chained.

Clean restart, step by step:

Never the same IP, device, or browser
Do not sign up from your home WiFi or the device the ban happened on. Create the new account on mobile data, and toggle airplane mode for 30 seconds first to get a fresh mobile IP.
Use AdsPower for a fresh browser identity
AdsPower gives the new account its own browser profile with a unique fingerprint, fonts, and OS signature, so Reddit cannot recognize your old setup. The free trial covers 2-3 profiles. No AdsPower? Use a different physical device, or at minimum a browser you never used for Reddit.
Using proxies? Check their quality first
Cheap datacenter or abused proxies are already flagged by Reddit and will get the new account banned faster than no proxy at all. If you go this route, use quality residential or ISP proxies from a provider like Oxylabs and verify the IP reputation before logging in. Avoid free VPNs and VPS completely.
Fresh email, fresh identity
New email address that was never linked to the banned account, and a username with a different style. Do not recreate "olduser_2", that is a giveaway.
Warm up slow, let the plan drive
Set your real account age and karma in your MediaFast project setup and the timeline will hold you back automatically: no links, light commenting, slow posting. The first 2 weeks of boring is what keeps the new account alive.

Do this once, properly, and you will not be reading this page a third time. Any questions, drop them in the dashboard chat.

Plans and Trial Limits

What the free trial includes, what upgrading unlocks, and how billing works.

MediaFast has a free trial to test the workflow, a monthly subscription, and a one-time lifetime package. Current prices are always on the pricing page, this doc covers what each tier actually unlocks.

What does the trial include?

The trial lets you create up to 2 projects and see the opening tasks of each generated plan, enough to judge whether the roadmap fits how you work. Reddit account connection, the full timeline, and chat support are reserved for paid plans.

What do paid plans unlock?

The complete day-by-day roadmap for every project, not just the opening tasks.
Reddit account connection with karma tracking and account health advice.
Unlimited AI post generation and refinement, plus post scheduling.
Chat support in the dashboard.

The monthly subscription and the lifetime package unlock the same product. The lifetime package is a single payment with no recurring fees. Early supporters who bought before subscriptions existed keep permanent full access as Legacy users.

How do I manage my subscription?

Everything lives in Settings under Billing: update your payment method, see your next billing date, cancel, or reactivate a subscription you previously set to cancel. Cancelling keeps your access until the end of the paid period.

Not sure yet?

Run the trial like you mean it: create a project, do the first tasks for real. Two days of actual Reddit activity tells you more than any pricing table.

Team Collaboration

How to share a project with a teammate and work the same roadmap together.

Projects can be shared, so a founder and a marketer, or an agency and a client, can work the same roadmap from their own MediaFast accounts. Everything is managed from Settings under Team.

How does sharing work?

Invite by email
Pick a project and invite a teammate by the email of their MediaFast account. They accept or decline the invite from their own Team tab, and you can withdraw a pending invite any time.
Work the same plan
Collaborators see the project's timeline and tasks and can execute the plan alongside you. Either side can end it: you can remove a collaborator, and they can leave a project shared with them.

How many seats do I get?

Seats depend on your plan tier, shown right in the Team tab with your current usage. If you are out of seats, the tab shows exactly what upgrading adds.

Who should own the project?

Keep the project on the account that owns the Reddit account being grown, and invite helpers into it, not the other way around. That keeps karma tracking and account advice attached to the right person.

Affiliate Program

Earn a commission recommending MediaFast, tracked from your personal referral link.

The affiliate program pays you 50% of the first purchase of every customer you refer. Join from Settings under Affiliate, grab your referral link, and share it wherever your audience is.

How does tracking and payout work?

Attribution: first click wins, and the cookie lasts 60 days, so you get credit even if they sign up weeks later.
Commission: 50% of the referred customer's first purchase, one-time.
Hold period: commissions are held 30 days to cover refunds, then approved.
Payout: once your approved balance reaches $50, you can withdraw via PayPal or Wise.

What does the affiliate dashboard show?

Clicks, signups, conversions, and conversion rate, plus your pending, approved, and paid balances, and a full ledger of every referral. Your payout details are saved once in the same tab.

What converts best?

Honest, specific content: a post about how you actually grew on Reddit, a comparison, a walkthrough. Dropping bare links converts nobody, on Reddit least of all, you know this.

Connect via MCP and API Keys

Use MediaFast from Claude, ChatGPT, and CLI tools through the MCP connector.

MediaFast ships an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, so AI assistants can use your MediaFast account directly: find subreddits for a product, check an account for a shadowban, or pull your growth roadmap, all from a chat with Claude or ChatGPT.

How do I connect an AI assistant?

Add the connector
In Settings under API Keys, copy the MCP URL (https://api.mediafa.st/mcp) and add it as a connector in your AI assistant, Claude and ChatGPT both support custom connectors. The tab walks you through each assistant's steps.
Just ask
Once connected, prompts like "find subreddits for my product" or "check the account spez for a shadowban" run through MediaFast automatically.
CLI tools use API keys
For tools like Claude Code, create a named API key in the same tab. Keys are shown once at creation, so copy them immediately, and you can revoke any key at any time. There is a cap on active keys, shown in the tab.

Why this matters

If an AI assistant is already where you plan your marketing, MediaFast meets you there. The connector uses your real account, so everything it does shows up in your dashboard like you did it yourself.