The short answer
A scheduler can publish your post and then immediately add a comment containing your hashtags. The caption stays readable and the hashtags still count. The timing matters: the comment has to land right after publishing, which is exactly what automation is good at.
Step by step
1Write the caption for humans
Hook in the first line — that is all anyone sees before 'more'. No hashtag block interrupting it.
2Put the hashtags in the first-comment field
In snazzy this is a separate field on the compose form. Save the sets you reuse as hashtag groups and insert them in one click instead of retyping them.
3Publish
The post goes out, and the comment is posted immediately after by the same account.
What catches people out
- Stories have no comments, so first-comment does not apply to them. A tool should silently skip it rather than error.
- Reusing one identical hashtag block on every post is the pattern people report as the least effective. Rotate a few groups.
- If the post publishes but the comment fails, you want to know. Check that your tool reports it rather than failing silently.
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