How did App building in Grok do on X?
Grok posted the App building in Grok launch from @grok on Aug 20, 2026. The post has 3,113,219 views, 3,667 likes, 423 reposts, 160 quotes and 335 replies, an engagement rate of 0.15%. It ranks #245 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.
Building apps on https://grok.com, iOS, and Android is now available on every SuperGrok and X Premium plan One prompt turns an idea into a published product with its own domain.
- 18xthe median launch175K median views
- #245of the launches we trackout of 2839
- 0.3xits own following9,396,270 followers
- Views
- 3.1M
- Likes
- 3.7K
- Reposts
- 423
- Quotes
- 160
- Replies
- 335
- Bookmarks
- 1.3K
What would these views cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 3.1M views would cost $311K. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $78K.
The post reached about 0.3 views for every follower of @grok.
What launched?
Grok launched app building on grok.com, iOS, and Android for every SuperGrok and X Premium plan, turning a prompt into a published product.
How does it compare with other launches?
App building in Grok has more views than 91% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 18x the median launch's 175K views.
- App building in Grok3.1M
- Median tracked launch175K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | App building in Grok | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 3.1M | 175K |
| Engagement rate | 0.15% | 0.48% |
| Views per follower | 0.3 | 2.8 |
| Quote posts | 160 | 27 |
| Saves per 10K views | 4.2 | 14.2 |
Other Grok launches we track: Grok Imagine 1.5 Preview (90.2M views), Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (52.1M views), Grok 4.5 (35.1M views), Grok for Excel (24.3M views), Grok 4.6 in GitHub Copilot (8M views), Grok 4.5 in GitHub Copilot (7.4M views). All 11 Grok launches, or every ai launch.
Against launches like it
A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI launches | 1,462 | 264.5K | 12x | #156 |
| Accounts over 1M followers | 224 | 2.2M | 1.4x | #93 |
| Video launch posts | 1,940 | 192.5K | 16x | #184 |
| Every launch | 2,839 | 175K | 18x | #245 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 9.4M followers, the post reached 0.3 times the account's following. Launches from accounts over 1M followers reach a median of 0.5 times their following, so this one went about 61% as far as usual for its size. It ranks 93 of 224 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 160 quote posts, 0.5 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. Fewer people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.
The first line is "Building apps on https://grok.com, iOS, and Android is now available on every SuperGrok and X Premium plan". The post runs 29 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with a video: video launches have a median of 192.5K views, against 137.6K for the rest.
There is a link in the post. Launch posts with a link have a median of 160.8K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Thursday (UTC). Thursday launches have a median of 162.1K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.
Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.
Questions about this launch
- How many views did App building in Grok get on X?
- 3,113,219 views. Grok posted it from @grok on Aug 20, 2026, and the post has 3,667 likes, 423 reposts, 160 quotes, 335 replies and 1,311 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was App building in Grok a big launch on X?
- It ranks #245 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 91% of them and 18x the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.15%, against a median of 0.48%.
- What would 3.1M views on X cost to buy?
- At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 3.1M views would cost $311K. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $78K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/grok-app-building-in-grok, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.