Kevin Yien ✓

@kevinyien · Austin, TX · joined 08 Feb 2012

product @stripe • thinking out loud • made of 🍦 • random ideas (#sparkfile)

12 536Followers

330Following

10 248Posts total

1.5MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views36 151this account2 043median for 10K–100K

Reach, %288.38%this account6.16%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.69%this account1.59%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	36 151	2 043	17.7×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.9× audience	6.16%	46.8×
Engagement rate	0.69%	1.59%	0.43×

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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

51.2K19 Aug

10.9K20 Aug

2.7K21 Aug

77.7K22 Aug

2.3K23 Aug

1.4M28 Aug

36.2K29 Aug

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

0.37%19 Aug

0.82%20 Aug

1.83%21 Aug

0.69%22 Aug

0.26%23 Aug

0.64%28 Aug

0.71%29 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.59%.

What the audience does

Likes86.6%8 675 in total

Reposts3.8%381 in total

Replies5.4%537 in total

Quotes2.4%245 in total

Bookmarks1.8%180 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.

Latest posts

forget all the flashy launch videos, this demo is pure butter — so so good and if you’re in the target audience, every 3 seconds you get hit with another wow moment 36.2K views · 245 likes · 5 reposts · 7 replies 29 Aug 2026 Quick Superlogical demo to end the week. This demo is just of the basic functionality, but I want to highlight just how FAST it is. There's a WHOLE lot more functionality already present and coming but I wanted to keep the demo short. But seriously, check out that speed. I'm htt 1.4M views · 7.7K likes · 349 reposts · 405 replies 28 Aug 2026 ELI5 —> ELIM: explain like i’m me 2.3K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 23 Aug 2026 I don’t like ELI5 as default for “make this easy to understand,” a great thing about LLMs is the ability to work as universal translators across topics Asking for generic dumbed-down explanations is worse than asking for personalized ones: “explain to me drawing on what I know” 77.7K views · 464 likes · 18 reposts · 45 replies 22 Aug 2026 Building things is fun Building things people want is more fun Building things people want *really well* is most fun It's astonishing how much more fun it gets as you graduate to the next level. It's less surprising that it takes extraordinary effort and care to get to the next 2.7K views · 48 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 21 Aug 2026 The responses are very telling of what most consider AI fluency (spoiler: not live coding). Best answer is @arjunblj: “Take home project (use anything), share all traces, come in and discuss for 30m” It’s the only one that gets at the how and why instead of the what. 10.9K views · 81 likes · 3 reposts · 4 replies 20 Aug 2026 Best ways to test AI fluency in a 30-minute interview? 51.2K views · 106 likes · 4 reposts · 76 replies 19 Aug 2026 Your career is not a ladder, it's a game. Those who treat it like ladder will make linear progress at best and let their fear hold them back. Those who treat it like a game will collect the resources, find the people, and build the skills that compound — and have fun doing it! 0 views · 1.3K likes · 168 reposts · 15 replies 25 Aug 2020