Instagram Live notifications, without the feed in the way

Instagram's feed is ranked, Stories visibility is ranked, and discovery surfaces (Explore, hashtags, Reels) all use independent recommendation systems that can quietly limit a post for any number of reasons. A creator with 100,000 followers regularly reaches single-digit percentages of them on a given post. Live events are visible to slightly more followers, but only because Instagram pushes a brief notification when a creator goes live, and even that is throttled.

Catchmylive connects to your Instagram Business or Creator account through Meta's Graph API. When you go live, the API surfaces the event to us, and we dispatch a push to every follower who opted in. The notification does not flow through Instagram's notification stack, so it lands the same way every time, regardless of how Instagram ranks your account that day.

Followers can still use Instagram however they want. Catchmylive sits next to it, not in place of it.

To connect Instagram, you need a Business or Creator account, not a personal account. The Graph API does not expose live event data for personal accounts. Switching from personal to Creator is free and reversible inside Instagram's settings, and it unlocks the integration immediately.