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Hiten Shah
@hnshah · 366.9K followers
Best of 2021 · 6.6K likes
“Just a normal day at a startup”
Peak year 2021, five years ago. 23 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2021. 2025 produced 15. The best work is behind the account, so far.
37signals
@37signals · 133.4K followers
@hnshah
Biggest post of 2026 · 35 likes · Sep 4, 2026
If Grok Bot looks interesting but you still don’t know what job you’d give one, this is for you. I’ve spent the week giving Grok Bot new jobs and looking through 407 public Bots. Tomorrow at 10 AM PT, I’ll show you whic…
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@37signals
@hnshah
No post framed as earnings among the 15 posts read.
@37signals
$712K
the earned figure that got the most attention in the last year · Aug 11, 2016 · 57 likes
How a two-person company generated $712,076.64 in revenue in a little over two years:
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.
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top post points at @37signals · 1 mention · 546 likes
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of 100 top posts point at @hnshah
One way. @hnshah’s best posts point at @37signals; none of @37signals’s top posts point at @hnshah. 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 | @hnshah | @37signals |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 and the GitHub side | ||
| Top posts from 2026 so far | 50 | 6 |
| Likes on 2026’s ten best | — | 114 |
| GitHub days in 2026 | — | — |
| GitHub days · last 90 | — | — |
| GitHub streak · days in a row | — | — |
| Ships · share of the last 365 days | — | — |
Best of 2023 · 428 likes
““We’ve spent literally millions on Hotwire as a whole umbrella of technologies over the years and we’re giving all of it away.” “It’s just…”
Peak year 2023, three years ago. 26 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2023. 2025 produced 8. The best work is behind the account, so far.
Biggest post of 2026 · 44 likes · Apr 1, 2026
Introducing Adorables — a new podcast from 37signals!
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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.
| Private share of that activity | — | — |
| The record |
| Peak year | 2021 | 2023 |
| Top posts from the peak | 23 | 26 |
| Top posts counted | 100 | 100 |
| Likes across the sample | 144.1K | 8.6K |
| Best post | 24.5K | 428 |
| Median likes | 620 | 64 |
| Years in a row with a top post | 10 | 10 |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | ×0.9 | ×0.3 |
| Followers | 366.9K | 133.4K |