
I deleted 60% of our settings screen and nobody complained. Here is the list of what went, what stayed, and the one preference three people emailed about within a day.
There is a real account in here and it is being outvoted by its own feed. When you write about something you shipped, with a number in it, people show up — one of those posts did twenty times your baseline. But a third of what you put out is somebody else's work, and most of it is the same three accounts, so a new visitor scrolling your profile meets your taste before they meet your voice. You also post about half as often as this niche needs, took twelve days off in the middle of the window. None of that is a talent problem. Post the shipping notes twice as often and cut the reposts in half — the reach is already there in the one post that broke out.
8 of the last 8 weeks fell below your cadence target. Schedule a batch of evergreen posts to cover low-activity windows.
Name the thing: what you are building, who it is for, one proof.
Replace "dm open" with the link or the result you want people to act on.
You're at 10.6 replies/day. Clear the 15/day minimum, then work toward 30/day — that's where reply activity starts compounding. A second daily reply round (lunch or evening) usually closes this gap.
7 of the last 7 days dropped below 15/day. Lock in a recurring slot in your calendar — 30 minutes, same time every day — so reply volume doesn't depend on motivation.
Your longest gap was 12 days. Queue a 3-5 post mini-series to avoid silences over a week.
"Shipping in public" outperforms your baseline but is only 23% of what you publish. Shift your topic mix — aim for 25-35% in your winning lane.
You're inside the healthy range for now (50% is where it starts costing you), but a bare repost adds nothing of yours. Quote it with one line of your own take instead — same signal boost, and it reads as your post.
50% of posts land in the recommended windows — about half are off-peak. Your strongest slots so far: Wed 10:00-11:00. Shift a few off-peak posts there and watch what happens to reach.
Most of what you boost comes from @deploy_diary, @uxnotes_daily, @ship_it_weekly. Amplifying a narrow circle keeps you inside it — their audience already sees them. Spread reposts across accounts whose followers haven't met you yet.
A decision you made, the number it moved, then the one objection you got.
It reads as a report rather than advice, so people who do not know you can check it. The objection at the end is what makes the replies useful.
Write about the last thing you removed from the product and what happened after.
Multipliers (e.g. 1.4×) compare engagement in that slot to your overall average.
Only 0% of weeks hit the 14/wk minimum — cadence is the weakest link here. 1 silent week in that window. Longest silence: 12 days — the algorithm cools down fast on gaps that long. Best week hit 10 posts.
Averaging 10.6 replies/day — close to but under the 15/day minimum. 7/7 days fell below the 15/day minimum. Best day hit 14 replies.
building small things | design + code | dm open

These posts beat your own median engagement by 3× or more. Whatever's different here is your fastest path to repeatable reach.

I deleted 60% of our settings screen and nobody complained. Here is the list of what went, what stayed, and the one preference three people emailed about within a day.

20 second walkthrough of the new keyboard shortcuts. No narration, just hands.
Your writing style reads clean — no overuse of emojis, hashtags, or links, and length is reasonable.
The posts where you describe something you actually changed carry the account. The one-line product opinions are the largest share of your output and the smallest share of your reach — they are cheap to write, which is exactly why there are so many of them.
Earns 54% more than your average post
1.54× your typical post across 14 posts, and performance is consistent — this is a repeatable lane.
Plain text is where this account earns attention — the longest, most specific posts pull several times the reach of the short ones. Images and video land above your text average per post, but there are so few of them that they cannot lift the account. The pattern is not "post more media", it is "the posts that carry a number outperform the posts that carry a mood".
Carrying its weight — keep the current cadence.
Carrying its weight — keep the current cadence.
Carrying its weight — keep the current cadence.
Only 2 posts here — not enough to judge.
Length breakdown needs a wider post-length spread — your posts are too uniform in length to split.
Engagement is below healthy ranges. Focus on one lever at a time — start with the biggest.
End posts with a direct question or a take people will want to push back on. Pick 3 this week and compare.
How often a viewer reacts. Measures hook + payoff strength.
Share of viewers who reply. Conversation density drives algorithmic reach on X.
Share of viewers who quote-tweet your post with their own take. Retweets are zero-effort boosts; quote-tweets are the quality amplification signal on X.
Avg engagements per post against your follower count — the classic ER everyone benchmarks.
67% original · 3% quote posts · 30% reposts.
30% of your feed is reposts. It starts costing you above 50%.
A bare repost adds nothing of yours. Quote it with your own take instead — same boost, and it reads as your post.
0.65/day over the last 40.2 days.
Most of what you boost comes from a handful of accounts — their followers already see them. Spreading it wider is how reposting reaches people who haven't met you.
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