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Paul Graham
@paulg · 5.1M followers
Best of 2025 · 196.5K likes
“It's official. It's genocide.”
28 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2025. That is the most recent full year. The account is at its peak, or has not reached it yet.
Pat Walls
@thepatwalls · 142.4K followers
@paulg
Biggest post of 2026 · 5.8K likes · Sep 3, 2026
The upper bound is .006%. That's how fake an issue this is.
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@paulg
No post framed as earnings among the 16 posts read.
@thepatwalls
$126K/yr
the earned figure that got the most attention in the last year · Mar 19, 2024 · 3.9K likes
This website does literally one thing and makes $126,000/year.
Read the postMy salary as an employee: Year 1: $54K (Big 4 accounting) Year 2: $60K (worked at startup) Year 3: $80K (startup) Year 4: $105K (software engineer) Year 5: $115K (software engineer) Then, I quit my j…
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top post points at @paulg · 1 mention · 934 likes
One way. @thepatwalls’s best posts point at @paulg; none of @paulg’s top posts point at @thepatwalls. 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 | @paulg | @thepatwalls |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 and the GitHub side | ||
| Top posts from 2026 so far | 53 | 41 |
| 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 · 9.7K likes
“Success is made up of a million boring little tasks:”
Peak year 2024, two years ago. 32 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2024. 2025 produced 25. Holding, not climbing.
Biggest post of 2026 · 71 likes · Aug 3, 2026
Hiring people, taking on a cofounder, or even taking a little funding can be a good source of motivation for certain types of people. Being a solo founder is not for everyone!! Bc it requires a lot of intrinsic motivati…
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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.
Here's how much it costs me to run a $1M/year online business:
Friends and family on your startup journey: $0/month: "Wtf are you doing?" $1k/mo: "How does this thing even make money?" $3k/mo: "Why would you quit your $100k job to make $3k/mo?" $10k/mo: "Busines…
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 | — | — |
| The record |
| Peak year | 2025 | 2024 |
| Top posts from the peak | 28 | 32 |
| Top posts counted | 100 | 100 |
| Likes across the sample | 1.5M | 184.9K |
| Best post | 196.5K | 18.6K |
| Median likes | 8K | 824 |
| Years in a row with a top post | 8 | 8 |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | ×0.5 | ×2.1 |
| Followers | 5.1M | 142.4K |