How did Upstash Hacker News Agent do on X?
Upstash posted the Hacker News Agent launch from @upstash on Mar 6, 2025. The post has 11,332 views, 53 likes, 4 reposts, 0 quotes and 4 replies, an engagement rate of 0.54%. It ranks #3585 of the 3,785 launches Gridd tracks.
Introducing @hackernewsagent, a completely autonomous AI Twitter Agent! 🎉 ◆ Specialized with X and HackerNews access ◆ Auto-generates article summaries & images ◆ Autonomously posts to Twitter Highly reliable with no human involved.
- 9%the median launch119.4K median views
- #3585of the launches we trackout of 3,785
- 0.7xits own following17,202 followers
- Views
- 11.3K
- Likes
- 53
- Reposts
- 4
- Quotes
- 0
- Replies
- 4
- Bookmarks
- 34
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, 11.3K views would cost $1K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 88x what this post got, for about $25K.
The post reached about 0.7 views for every follower of @upstash.
What launched?
Upstash launched Hacker News Agent, an autonomous AI Twitter agent with X and Hacker News access that writes summaries and images and posts on its own.
How does it compare with other launches?
Upstash Hacker News Agent has more views than 5% of the 3,785 launches Gridd tracks: 9% of the median launch's 119.4K views.
- Upstash Hacker News Agent11.3K
- Median tracked launch119.4K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | Upstash Hacker News Agent | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 11.3K | 119.4K |
| Engagement rate | 0.54% | 0.58% |
| Views per follower | 0.7 | 1.5 |
| Quote posts | 0 | 20 |
| Saves per 10K views | 30.0 | 15.0 |
Other Upstash launches we track: Upstash Context7 MCP (139.6K views), Upstash Context7 (80.9K views), Upstash Search (71.2K views), Upstash Box (68.2K views), Upstash Workflow (58.6K views), Upstash AI Chat Component (46.3K views). All 33 Upstash 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 | 1,818 | 194.6K | 6% | #1764 |
| Accounts 10K to 100K followers | 1,322 | 74.1K | 15% | #1213 |
| Image launch posts | 897 | 84.9K | 13% | #812 |
| Every launch | 3,785 | 119.4K | 9% | #3585 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 17.2K followers, the post reached 0.7 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 10K to 100K followers reach a median of 2.3 times their following, so this one went about 29% as far as usual for its size. It ranks 1213 of 1322 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 0 quote posts, 0.0 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 "Introducing @hackernewsagent, a completely autonomous AI Twitter Agent! 🎉". The post runs 33 words, against a median of 38 for launch posts here, and leads with an image: image launches have a median of 84.9K views, against 130.9K for the rest.
There is no link in the post. Launch posts without a link have a median of 127.4K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Thursday (UTC). Thursday launches have a median of 112.1K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 137.9K.
Every comparison is against the 3,785 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
- What is Upstash?
- In its own words on X: "The Serverless Data Platform" Upstash posted the Hacker News Agent launch from @upstash on Mar 6, 2025.
- How many views did Upstash Hacker News Agent get on X?
- 11,332 views. Upstash posted it from @upstash on Mar 6, 2025, and the post has 53 likes, 4 reposts, 0 quotes, 4 replies and 34 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was Upstash Hacker News Agent a big launch on X?
- It ranks #3585 of the 3,785 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 5% of them and 9% of the median launch's 119.4K views. Its engagement rate is 0.54%, against a median of 0.58%.
- What would 11.3K 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, 11.3K views would cost $1K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 88x what this post got, for about $25K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/upstash-hacker-news-agent, 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.