How did Raindrop Simulate do on X?

Raindrop posted the Simulate launch from @benhylak on Nov 5, 2026. The post has 80,813 views, 560 likes, 45 reposts, 17 quotes and 70 replies, an engagement rate of 0.86%. It ranks #1846 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.

ben hylak@benhylak · 54K followersView on X
introducing https://simulate.ai by @raindrop_ai test your agent on every PR, against real scenarios, with one-click. we handle all the set up: sandboxing, fixtures, real data, synthetic data, evals and more.
Nov 5, 2026 · 80,813 views
  • 46%the median launch175K median views
  • #1846of the launches we trackout of 2839
  • 1.5xits own following54,032 followers
Views
80.8K
Likes
560
Reposts
45
Quotes
17
Replies
70
Bookmarks
312

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, 80.8K views would cost $8K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 12x what this post got, for about $25K.

The post reached about 1.5 views for every follower of @benhylak.

What launched?

Raindrop launched Simulate, which tests an agent on every pull request against real scenarios with sandboxing, fixtures and evals handled.

How does it compare with other launches?

Raindrop Simulate has more views than 35% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 46% of the median launch's 175K views.

  • Raindrop Simulate80.8K
  • Median tracked launch175K
  • #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
Views on the launch post, read from X on Nov 14, 2026.
MetricRaindrop SimulateMedian launch
Views80.8K175K
Engagement rate0.86%0.48%
Views per follower1.52.8
Quote posts1727
Saves per 10K views38.614.2

Other Raindrop launches we track: Raindrop rd-signal-2 (164.5K views). All 2 Raindrop launches, or every developer tools 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 withLaunchesMedian viewsThis oneRank
Developer tools launches595111.1K73%#326
Accounts 10K to 100K followers1,13599.4K81%#608
Video launch posts1,940192.5K42%#1312
Every launch2,839175K46%#1846

What this launch shows

From an account with 54K followers, the post reached 1.5 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 10K to 100K followers reach a median of 3.1 times their following, so this one went about 49% as far as usual for its size. It ranks 608 of 1135 launches from accounts that size.

It drew 17 quote posts, 2.1 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. More 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 "introducing https://simulate.ai by @raindrop_ai". 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 Raindrop Simulate get on X?
80,813 views. Raindrop posted it from @benhylak on Nov 5, 2026, and the post has 560 likes, 45 reposts, 17 quotes, 70 replies and 312 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
Was Raindrop Simulate a big launch on X?
It ranks #1846 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 35% of them and 46% of the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.86%, against a median of 0.48%.
What would 80.8K 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, 80.8K views would cost $8K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 12x what this post got, for about $25K.

Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/raindrop-simulate, 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.