John Hu ✓

@JayHoovy · Los Angeles, USA · joined 19 Jul 2016

founder of Stan ($40M ARR) former Goldman / Stanford MBA sharing everything I’ve learned for free

11 949Followers

472Following

1 062Posts total

2.3MViews on collected posts

Latest posts

John Hu ✓@JayHoovy26 Aug

This might be the biggest thing we've ever done at Stan. Introducing Launchpad. We just rented out a beautiful camp in upstate New York. This October, we're filling it with 30 early-stage teams for 14 days. Here's what every team gets: - Masterclasses from $B+ founders, and ht 7.3K views · 61 likes · 0 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

John Hu ✓@JayHoovy25 Aug

@JayHoovy We got https://t.co/53Mah4N6Do for $50k and it was the best decision! 805 views · 22 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

John Hu ✓@JayHoovy24 Aug

@JayHoovy 4 letter .com is actually a game changer image wise and I think will have real 2nd and 3rd order effects 731 views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

John Hu ✓@JayHoovy24 Aug

@JayHoovy Wow, seems like a huge waste of money to me. In a short time, domain names won't matter at all, AI won't need them. nQA#2BLFlK9HZ3kA.lol will be just fine 618 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

John Hu ✓@JayHoovy24 Aug

We just bought the domain https://t.co/duKLarM6Kr for $750,000 😳 When I first started Stan, I was so broke that the best domain I could afford was https://t.co/x0ToOuZkre 🫠 Eventually we got https://t.co/1ThUjLf0Bx and that was a huge win. https://t.co/duKLarM6Kr tried to http 132.6K views · 1.1K likes · 73 reposts · 234 replies Open on X →

John Hu ✓@JayHoovy21 Aug

Here's everything we built for Stanley this week. Three things, and all of them change how the work feels. Autonomous mode. He plans your entire week of content and sends it over for you to swipe through. Swipe right to approve, left to kill. Vitalii called it Tinder for htt 4K views · 48 likes · 6 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

John Hu ✓@JayHoovy14 Aug

No better feeling than ripping around NYC on a Citibike. 😎 Vitalii and I are very lucky to get to travel the world because of our business. From LA to Toronto, London, Cannes or New York - we always make sure to bike around the city. We get some of our best thinking about h 4.7K views · 50 likes · 0 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

John Hu ✓@JayHoovy30 Jul

@JayHoovy hey stanley, i need you to analyze my content and determine whether being horny or telling people to kill themselves lands better with my audience. Thank you in advance 4.3K views · 108 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

John Hu ✓@JayHoovy30 Jul

To celebrate our launch, we connected @stanleybystan to X. Leave a comment on the tweet quoted below and Stanley will audit your account, identify your voice, and tell you what’s working. You can ask Stanley to give you ideas, get feedback on a draft, or write your next viral 13.5K views · 32 likes · 0 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

John Hu ✓@JayHoovy30 Jul

We built Stanley based off our learnings making over $500M for some of the most successful Creators and Entrepreneurs out there, and from building our own followings to hundreds of thousands of followers. On average, customers see 50% better engagement in their first month. http 9.4K views · 33 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

John Hu ✓@JayHoovy30 Jul

Stanley connects to your socials, your Slack, Notion, and Granola, and any other data sources to write personalized and specific content. One of my favorites: he’ll go into my GitHub and suggest to me interesting Build in Public ideas based off my PRs. https://t.co/SdRJHm6Jxy 9.4K views · 32 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

John Hu ✓@JayHoovy30 Jul

Stanley can run automated daily tasks for you, like a daily 9am morning brief of top trending posts and post ideas, as well as a recap of your performance at the end of the day. Select a Ritual, or create your own. https://t.co/6q9AcZd3S5 10.8K views · 42 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

John Hu ✓@JayHoovy30 Jul

Stanley is trained on viral formats, and your own voice. Connect your socials and Stanley will write your next banger, and store insights for the next one. https://t.co/PEoK7VNOmo 14.2K views · 53 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

John Hu ✓@JayHoovy30 Jul

Stan wouldn't be where it is today without the immense support from our investors, supporters and customers: @garyvee, @NorwestVP, @ForerunnerVC, @eurie_kim, @kirstenagreen, @kevinhartz, @pearvc, @pejmannozad, @MarHershenson, @austinhankwitz, @thesamparr, @ShaanVP, @JamesonCamp, 26.4K views · 104 likes · 1 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

John Hu ✓@JayHoovy30 Jul

Introducing Stanley: The first AI Head of Content that will help you grow your following. Stanley works just like a real employee: text him and he’ll create, edit, and strategize viral content across X, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Making viral content is hard. It requires deep htt 2.1M views · 2.1K likes · 130 reposts · 672 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

15 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views9 412this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %78.77%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.98%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	9 412	924	10.2×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	78.77%	3.62%	21.8×
Engagement rate	0.98%	1.52%	0.64×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

26.4K30 Jul

14.2K

10.8K

9.4K

13.5K

4.3K

4.7K14 Aug

4K21 Aug

132.6K24 Aug

618

731

80525 Aug

7.3K26 Aug

Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.42%30 Jul

0.38%

0.42%

0.35%

0.36%

0.31%

2.59%

1.33%14 Aug

1.75%21 Aug

1.08%24 Aug

1.46%

1.37%

2.98%25 Aug

0.98%26 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes43.0%3 810 in total

Reposts2.4%214 in total

Replies10.9%970 in total

Quotes2.4%210 in total

Bookmarks41.3%3 658 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

6 Sep

Daily snapshots since 06 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

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