Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions
I used to work for Facebook and Google and constantly got asked questions like "Hey, my Instagram account got blocked for no reason. Could you help me get it back?". I'd say yes, it would take me 10 min to fill out an internal form and 1 week later the account was back. Even years after leaving, I still get these requests. So I built a marketplace for them. Let me know what you think!
Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions launched on May 21, 2024 with 444 votes, #72 of 4,539 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Pls Fix is a marketplace that connects users with suspended social media accounts to former employees of major tech companies who can appeal those suspensions. The service is designed for people locked out of platforms like Instagram with no clear explanation. Former Facebook and Google employees use their insider knowledge and internal contacts to submit appeals, typically resolving cases within a week. The platform streamlines what would otherwise be a difficult process for account owners dealing with platform restrictions.
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From the sources
plsfix turns the incidents your team has already resolved — across Slack, PagerDuty, GitHub and Claude — into verified runbooks and executable skills. So the second time it happens, the bot already has the answer.
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