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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: Wednesday. Best time block: 12pm–3pm UTC. Timing detail is in the Cadence chart above.

Best performing posts

• 2025-10-09 · Catherine Jue · Celebratory Announcement1.1K eng. (991 likes · 119 comments · 32 shares)

  I’m thrilled to announce that Kernel (YC S25) has raised $22M in Seed + Series A funding, led by Accel, to scale our browser infrastructure …

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• 2026-06-25 · Anna X. Wang · Personal Story422 eng. (359 likes · 60 comments · 3 shares)

  Life Update: I'm back in San Francisco, and I've started a new role leading Product & Partnerships at KERNEL. Two years ago, I moved to Lond…

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• 2025-10-01 · Rafael Garcia · Personal Story221 eng. (195 likes · 18 comments · 8 shares)

  Back in 2012, I was a first-time founder in Y Combinator's S12 batch, working on Clever Inc. with my cofounders Tyler Bosmeny and Dan Carrol…

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• 2026-05-05 · Catherine Jue · Company Update203 eng. (189 likes · 11 comments · 3 shares)

  Today was KERNEL 's first day at our new SF office on corner of Sansome and Clay. We've been methodical (and frugal!) in growing our space, …

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• 2026-04-03 · Catherine Jue · Event172 eng. (162 likes · 6 comments · 4 shares)

  This week, we co-hosted an amazing private dinner at a Michelin-starred steakhouse with Anthropic and Accel for AI founders in San Francisco…

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

• 2026-01-20 · Mason Williams · Product Update7 eng. (5 likes · 0 comments · 2 shares)

  If you want to automate anything on a browser and not worry about your infrastructure provider slowing you down, please dm me.

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• 2025-12-09 · Catherine Jue · Hiring / Recruiting8 eng. (7 likes · 1 comments · 0 shares)

  Welcome Neil!

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• 2026-03-17 · Mason Williams · Product Update8 eng. (7 likes · 0 comments · 1 shares)

  Agents need access to the authenticated internet, but they don't have a secure, consented way to get it. Now they do. Most developers are st…

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• 2026-05-15 · Anna X. Wang · Celebratory Announcement8 eng. (8 likes · 0 comments · 0 shares)

  Congrats, Multiverse!

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• 2026-02-17 · Catherine Jue · Event10 eng. (9 likes · 0 comments · 1 shares)

  Recently had the pleasure of chatting with Amanda Robson and Timothy Chen on the Open Source Startup Podcast. We covered Kernel's origin sto…

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