I have spent 14+ years in cloud and DevOps, and I teach it on my YouTube channel, TechTutorialsWithPiyush, which has over 120,000 subscribers. I also wrote the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Study Companion for Apress.
I post Reels too. The ones that did well brought hundreds of comments asking for the same link, and I was answering them by hand late at night.
The tools that could do it for me were priced per contact (ManyChat's free plan stops at 25 contacts a month), and I still needed a second tool just to schedule the Reels.
So we built ReelDrop (https://www.reeldrop.io): one tool that schedules your Reels and sends a DM to everyone who comments, on the official Instagram API.
We opened it to the public in August 2026. The live numbers are near the top of this page, and they update every day.
I still read every support email myself, and I post our real numbers in public, bad weeks included.
If you want your next Reel to answer its own comments, you can try it for free, and you won't need a credit card.