Outset

What drives engagement

Smart avg engagement per post across every post in this window. Gray rows at the bottom are under the sample floor (15+ posts per category, 15+ per format) — too few posts to trust the average.

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

Best performing posts

• 2025-06-11 · Michael Hess · Celebratory Announcement801 eng. (570 likes · 219 comments · 12 shares)

  I’m thrilled to announce Outset's $17M Series A funding round, led by 8VC! Since day one, Aaron Cannon and I were driven by a simple truth: …

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• 2025-08-04 · Michael Hess · Hiring / Recruiting645 eng. (392 likes · 216 comments · 37 shares)

  We want to give you $10,000. We're hiring software engineers: frontend and backend. We just raised our Series A and are building AI-moderate…

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• 2025-12-10 · Michael Hess · Celebratory Announcement568 eng. (451 likes · 94 comments · 23 shares)

  Just six months after our Series A...I couldn’t be more excited to announce that Outset has raised $30M in Series B financing! 2025 has been…

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• 2025-07-14 · Michael Hess · Hiring / Recruiting479 eng. (309 likes · 155 comments · 15 shares)

  We’re hiring 4 engineers at Outset. Backend and Frontend Engineers. Why? We have real momentum from our Series A and a big mission to build …

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• 2026-01-28 · Michael Hess · Hiring / Recruiting392 eng. (296 likes · 82 comments · 14 shares)

  We’re hiring Backend and Frontend Software Engineers. Earlier this week, I shared that we’re opening up a VP of Engineering role. We haven’t…

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

• 2024-07-09 · Michael Hess · Industry Insight3 eng. (3 likes · 0 comments · 0 shares)

  AI has become such a buzzword these days that folks sometimes forget that only one thing REALLY matters: is your product useful? Great heari…

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• 2026-05-06 · Paige Younkin · Customer Highlight5 eng. (5 likes · 0 comments · 0 shares)

  Microsoft AI used Outset to run qualitative research at scale on Copilot, driving an estimated 5% increase in retention! At Copilot's scale,…

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• 2024-04-11 · Michael Hess · Event9 eng. (9 likes · 0 comments · 0 shares)

  Stop by and say hello!

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• 2025-01-15 · Michael Hess · Industry Insight9 eng. (7 likes · 2 comments · 0 shares)

  AI companies need to make sure what happened to Crypto doesn’t happen to them. If you don’t know what I’m talking about: When Crypto was hot…

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• 2025-03-19 · Michael Hess · Industry Insight9 eng. (7 likes · 2 comments · 0 shares)

  Did Aaron Cannon hike out there himself to recruit participants? Read the article and find out!

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