Giga

What drives engagement

Smart avg engagement per post across every post in this window. Gray rows at the bottom are under the sample floor (8+ posts per category, 8+ per format) — too few posts to trust the average.

Best day: Tuesday. Best time block: 3pm–6pm UTC. Timing detail is in the Cadence chart above.

Best performing posts

• 2026-07-10 · Esha Dinne · Personal Story1.2K eng. (1.2K likes · 27 comments · 7 shares)

  A great co-founder will save your company. In 2019, I met Varun Vummadi the first week of freshman year at Indian Institute of Technology, K…

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• 2026-07-09 · Varun Vummadi · Personal Story1.1K eng. (1.0K likes · 33 comments · 9 shares)

  I walked away from a PhD program at 22 to start a company with Esha Dinne. I met Esha Dinne freshman year at IIT Kharagpur. We shared the sa…

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• 2026-07-15 · Varun Vummadi · Personal Story740 eng. (695 likes · 41 comments · 4 shares)

  We applied to Y Combinator with an edtech idea. AI to help Indian students apply to US colleges. The YC group partner looked at it and said …

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• 2026-07-15 · Esha Dinne · Personal Story433 eng. (403 likes · 24 comments · 6 shares)

  Technical excellence almost killed our company. We became the first team to fine-tune Llama 2 to a 32K context window. Built our own model, …

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• 2026-07-16 · Esha Dinne · Personal Story399 eng. (374 likes · 24 comments · 1 shares)

  We hired Sebastian Gil as our first VP of Engineering three months ago. His first major decision surprised me. He didn't touch the codebase.…

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Worst performing posts — settled posts only (published ≥7 days before the data edge)

• 2026-07-07 · Chandrasekhar Ambula V · Industry Insight1 eng. (1 likes · 0 comments · 0 shares)

  The best technical decisions often look like non-events. No dramatic recovery. No emergency fixes. No last-minute heroics. Just stable syste…

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• 2026-07-15 · Arnab Maiti · Personal Story6 eng. (6 likes · 0 comments · 0 shares)

  So true… building a successful product is a whole different ballgame compared to building a good technology

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• 2026-07-09 · Chandrasekhar Ambula V · Industry Insight7 eng. (7 likes · 0 comments · 0 shares)

  I’ve seen more projects struggle from ambiguity than lack of talent. Most teams already have smart, capable people. What slows projects down…

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• 2026-07-10 · Kenneth Lee · Hiring / Recruiting7 eng. (7 likes · 0 comments · 0 shares)

  Looking for a contract technical sourcer! :) Any contract sourcers in sf area ?

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• 2026-07-17 · Kenneth Lee · Hiring / Recruiting7 eng. (5 likes · 2 comments · 0 shares)

  Hiring for Forward Deployment Engineer! You'll serve as a technical interface between Giga and our customers, building and deploying sophist…

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