B*tchwork my AI Did for Me - Part 10: Told Me EXACTLY How to Go Viral on Instagram - and it WORKED
I did not sit on Instagram for hours taking notes. I let Claude Code open my browser, study 50 viral posts in my niche, and turn what it saw into a content playbook I could actually use.
Most creators study other people's viral posts the slow way.
They open Instagram. They scroll. They save. They screenshot. They try to remember what made one post pop and another one die. Then a week later, they cannot remember what they learned.
I have done that for years. It is the most useful work in content. It is also the most annoying.
So I stopped doing it that way.
I gave the job to Claude Code instead.
I told it to find 50 viral posts in my niche from the last month, look at every one of them, find the patterns, and write me a clean report I could actually act on.
It did the whole job in one sitting. About 30 minutes. I watched it work.
Then it handed me a 4-page content playbook with 10 new post ideas tailored to my brand. I shipped 3 of them into my queue that day.
This article walks through exactly how I did it. I am going to explain it like you have never touched AI or code before, because most of my readers have not.
If you do not know what is working in your niche right now, you are guessing every time you post. AI can stop the guessing.
Who this is for
This is for you if:
You have been told to "study viral posts in your niche" and have no idea how to actually do it without losing a Sunday.
You are a founder or small business owner who knows AI can help, but does not want to fight with prompts and code for hours.
You are not a coder. You do not want to be a coder. You just want better content.
You are tired of guessing what to post next.
If that is you, keep reading. This is one of those Bitchwork projects that saves you hours every month and quietly changes what your content can do.
Why you should trust this
I run 33 brands. I ship two real SaaS products that real people pay for (PRISM and AutoviralApp). My flagship account @liz.on.the.web has 241,000 followers.
I do not have a marketing team. I do not sit on Instagram with a notebook open. That is exactly why I built this workflow.
I am not selling a tool. There is no paid tool here. I am giving you the prompts I actually used, in plain language.
What paid subs get below
The free version stops in a minute. Paid subs get all of this:
The 4 prompts I used, word for word, ready to copy and paste into Claude Code today.
The full Chrome browser setup in plain language. What to install, what to turn on, how to keep yourself safe while AI uses your browser.
A real look at the 4-page report Claude Code handed me back, so you know what to expect.
The 3 warnings I would not skip (bad data, login state, how to not get flagged).
The "how this works in other niches" map. Use this for SaaS sales, local services, coaching, agency work, anything.
The bridge into next week's Bitchwork: how to rewrite one of your own viral posts and regenerate the images in under 10 minutes.
If you have been wanting to make AI do real work for your content but did not know where to start, this is the first project I would hand you.
Paid subs get the full playbook below. Free subs get the headline and the framing.
