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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: Monday. Best time block: 9pm–12am 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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• 2025-05-29 · Catherine Jue · Celebratory Announcement339 eng. (306 likes · 29 comments · 4 shares)

  I'm excited to (finally!) come out of stealth and share Kernel, a new company that Rafael Garcia and I have been working on for the past sev…

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• 2025-05-16 · Phani Bharadwaj Jarugumilli · Personal Story285 eng. (247 likes · 38 comments · 0 shares)

  🚘 Wrapping up my Spring 2025 rotation at BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC, and I couldn’t be more grateful for the growth I’ve experienced. Over …

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• 2025-07-23 · Mason Williams · Personal Story284 eng. (208 likes · 75 comments · 1 shares)

  Big update: I’ve joined Kernel as a founding engineer 🎉 Now it’s story time, here’s the past 5 months of my life: Back in February of this …

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

• 2024-08-07 · Mason Williams · Event4 eng. (4 likes · 0 comments · 0 shares)

  Excited for another amazing night of demos at the StartupCincy Tech Demo Night - August Edition 👀

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• 2025-01-08 · Anna X. Wang · Celebratory Announcement4 eng. (4 likes · 0 comments · 0 shares)

  Congratulations Ali and Ignacio! Huge milestone to kickstart 2025 🚀

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• 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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