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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.
Austen Allred
@Austen · 481.1K 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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@Austen
@hnshah
No post framed as earnings among the 15 posts read.
@Austen
$50K/mo
the earned figure that got the most attention in the last year · Mar 12, 2019 · 5.6K likes
I was very very sad when I learned the Domino’s pizza tracker is entirely fake (based solely on time since order), but I have to commend whatever engineer suggested doing that instead of spending $20…
Read the postToday is a day I’ve been waiting for for a long time. We’re launching living stipends for Lambda School students. We pay you $2,000/month for 9 months while you attend. You pay back 10% of salary for…
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.
@hnshah → @Austen
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top post points at @Austen · 1 mention · 546 likes
@Austen → @hnshah
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of 100 top posts point at @hnshah
One way. @hnshah’s best posts point at @Austen; none of @Austen’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.
| Measure | @hnshah | @Austen |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 and the GitHub side | ||
| Top posts from 2026 so far | 50 | 47 |
| Likes on 2026’s ten best | — | — |
| GitHub days in 2026 | — | — |
| GitHub days · last 90 | — | — |
| GitHub streak · days in a row | — | — |
| Ships · share of the last 365 days | — | — |
Best of 2024 · 123.7K likes
“Wife: “What did your teacher remember about September 11th?” Nine-year-old: “She was only four then, she doesn’t remember it at all.””
Peak year 2024, two years ago. 28 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2024. 2025 produced 24. Holding, not climbing.
Biggest post of 2026 · 25 likes · Sep 3, 2026
Golf culture is foreign to many 😂
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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 | 2024 |
| Top posts from the peak | 23 | 28 |
| Top posts counted | 100 | 100 |
| Likes across the sample | 144.1K | 1.4M |
| Best post | 24.5K | 123.7K |
| Median likes | 620 | 6.6K |
| Years in a row with a top post | 10 | 8 |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | ×0.9 | ×0.5 |
| Followers | 366.9K | 481.1K |