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Dev Tools & Infrastructure · 3.4K followers · LinkedIn benchmark, last 12 months (original)

data through 2026-09-23
Excluding from this report:Company page reset

Momentum vs prior 12 months

Posts

85

+52%

Posts/wk

1.6

+45%

Avg engagement

58.1

smart avg / post

-36%

Momentum

+20%

2nd half of window vs 1st

2025-09-30 → 2026-09-30 · Benchmark by Imagine AI · methodology at benchmark.imagineai.me/dashboard/methodology

Engagement trend

Posting volume (bars) vs average engagement per post (line) — team only, original posts

Momentum over time

Change in average engagement per post vs the previous month — green gaining, red losing

Category mix

Cadence

Average engagement by day posted (Pacific time)

Team contribution

Team data through 2026-07-24 — employee scrapes lag this window; low numbers here mean stale data, not a quiet team.

Company page posts — not counted in this reportExcluded — undo

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.

By category

Personal Story85.313 posts
Celebratory Announcement74.911 posts
Event67.212 posts
Hiring / Recruiting65.28 posts
Product Update47.324 posts
Company Update76.55 posts · low n
Industry Insight755 posts · low n
Customer Highlight577 posts · low n

By format

Image89.116 posts
Text Only46.163 posts
Carousel80.34 posts · low n
Video73.12 posts · low n

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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