Gaurav Sharma ✓

@gsharmanyc

CEO / founder @hookmusicapp

478Followers

103Following

56Posts total

1.4MViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Gaurav Sharma ✓@gsharmanyc3 Sep

@gsharmanyc Brown. Uncut. 8 inches. 4.7K views · 196 likes · 3 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Gaurav Sharma ✓@gsharmanyc3 Sep

Hook wouldn’t be possible without the support & belief of the following people: Edgar Bronfman Jr, Samir Kaul, Ishan Sinha, Natalie Massenet, @JKalifowitz, @KSHMRmusic, Michael Lynton, David Johnson, @GregorPryor, @A_Bonavia Our investors: @khoslaventures, @p72vc, Waverley 3K views · 38 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Gaurav Sharma ✓@gsharmanyc3 Sep

Hook features weekly remix challenges where you can win up to $15,000. Remix the track, share it, and enter to win. https://t.co/pbuOLWeV8K

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3.3K views · 40 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Gaurav Sharma ✓@gsharmanyc3 Sep

Why should you listen to me? Because I’ve spent my career making music and building technology for it. I’m a producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist. At 25, I was writing songs in studios in Harlem while helping build one of the world’s largest music streaming services, 6.4K views · 48 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Gaurav Sharma ✓@gsharmanyc3 Sep

Here's how it works: > Open the Hook Music app > Pick the song you want to create with > Drag it to the chatbox, add your video > Type how you want the remix to be > Hook applies filters made by a grammy-winning producer > Share it across any social media platform > Get paid ht

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4.8K views · 48 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Gaurav Sharma ✓@gsharmanyc3 Sep

The music industry isn’t f*cked because of AI. It’s f*cked if we let AI companies build billion-dollar businesses on artists’ work without their permission and without paying them. Just look at Suno: → Raised $400M at a $5.4B valuation → Allegedly trained on millions of 11.2K views · 80 likes · 1 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Gaurav Sharma ✓@gsharmanyc3 Sep

AI platforms are stealing from artists > Millions spent on data centers to replicate human music > Rarely pay the musicians they train on AI should amplify creativity, not steal from humans Introducing Hook: the world’s first social platform for music that pays artists & fans

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1.3M views · 829 likes · 284 reposts · 332 replies Open on X →

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7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the under 10K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views4 832this account4 175median for under 10K

Reach, %1010.88%this account250.82%median for under 10K

Engagement, %1.08%this account1.41%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	4 832	4 175	1.16×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	10.1× audience	2.5× audience	4.03×
Engagement rate	1.08%	1.41%	0.76×

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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

1.3M3 Sep

11.2K

4.8K

6.4K

3.3K

4.7K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.11%3 Sep

0.80%

1.08%

0.77%

1.26%

1.29%

4.30%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.41%.

What the audience does

Likes53.4%1 279 in total

Reposts12.1%289 in total

Replies14.7%352 in total

Quotes2.8%67 in total

Bookmarks17.1%409 in total

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

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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