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Arvid Kahl
@arvidkahl · 209.1K followers
Best of 2024 · 85.8K likes
“lol”
Peak year 2024, two years ago. 25 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2024. 2025 produced 13. The best work is behind the account, so far.
Gumroad
@gumroad · 196.7K followers
@arvidkahl
Biggest post of 2026 · 23 likes · Sep 3, 2026
First thing this morning, pre-coffee, btw, I just yapped this prompt into my Claude Code session. 20 minutes later, after running a few diagnostic SQL queries on a prod replica, a 15min+ query is now running in 375ms. H…
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@gumroad
@arvidkahl
No post framed as earnings among the 14 posts read.
@gumroad
$8.4M/mo
the earned figure that got the most attention in the last year · Mar 12, 2026 · 1K likes
1 person who sets up Passkeys on their Gumroad account in the next 24 hours gets a $1,000 prize. Reply below with your username once you’ve done so to enter ⬇️
Read the postLast week on Gumroad: 💰 $2,072,518 in sales 🛒 103,609 purchases across 37,236 products 🆕 1,551 first-time sellers 🏆 Top creator earned $65,011 Every one of those numbers started with someone hitt…
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top posts point at @gumroad · 3 mentions · 912 likes
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of 100 top posts point at @arvidkahl
One way. @arvidkahl’s best posts point at @gumroad; none of @gumroad’s top posts point at @arvidkahl. Counted from each account’s top posts, where a quote, a reply, or a mention each count one post. Likes, follows, and replies received are not visible in this data and are not claimed.
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| Measure | @arvidkahl | @gumroad |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 and the GitHub side | ||
| Top posts from 2026 so far | 50 | 44 |
| Likes on 2026’s ten best | — | 6.7K |
| GitHub days in 2026 | 231 | — |
| GitHub days · last 90 | 87 | — |
| GitHub streak · days in a row | 75 | — |
| Ships · share of the last 365 days | 92% | — |
Best of 2020 · 2.2K likes
“For the last 30 days, creators earned more than $300,000 every single day. That's never happened before! To celebrate, we're giving $3,000…”
Peak year 2020, six years ago. 24 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2020. 2025 produced 8. The best work is behind the account, so far.
Biggest post of 2026 · 1.1K likes · Jul 23, 2026
UPI 👀🇮🇳
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This year is shown, not ranked: likes accumulate with age, so 2026 is always undercounted against completed years. The GitHub side counts days with any activity, public or private, from the contribution calendar.
In February, creators earned $8,375,533 on Gumroad: • 3 made over $100,000 • 93 made over $10,000 • 1,467 made over $1,000 • 8,081 made over $100 • 24,987 made over $10 • 34,172 made something
You don't need 10,000 followers to make real money. You need 100 people who trust you. Here's the playbook: Start by helping people for free in communities where your ideal customer hangs out. Reddit…
Read the postA $10 PDF sold 100 times is $1,000 you didn't have before.
Read the postYou don't need a million followers to make your first $1,000 online.
Read the postGumroad is officially open source! 💫🚀 After 14 years of helping creators earn over $1,000,000,000 (that’s a billion), we're giving everyone direct access to our entire codebase.
Read the post🚀 Creator Spotlight: Meet @IMAC2, who turned fullPage.js from a side project into a full-time business used by Google, Coca-Cola & more! From $1,500 in the first 30 days, to quitting his job by mont…
Read the postEvery line is a post by the account itself that names a dollar figure, newest first, linked so you can read it in place. ShipRatio checks that the post exists, not the number. A figure framed as revenue, MRR, profit, or sales is marked earned; a price, a raise, or someone else’s number is a mention.
| Private share of that activity | 100% | — |
| The record |
| Peak year | 2024 | 2020 |
| Top posts from the peak | 25 | 24 |
| Top posts counted | 100 | 100 |
| Likes across the sample | 314.5K | 70.2K |
| Best post | 156.3K | 4.4K |
| Median likes | 362 | 388 |
| Years in a row with a top post | 7 | 10 |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | ×0.2 | ×0.6 |
| Followers | 209.1K | 196.7K |