How David Miller launched Melty on X

1.5M views, ranked 586 of the 1981 launches we track. It was saved at well above the usual rate, which is the signal that matters more than reach for anything with a considered purchase behind it.

Posted 2026-10-04 by @davidmilr · Y Combinator F26 · engagement read 2026-10-18

David Miller launch post on X0:44
David Miller
David Miller
@davidmilr · 2K followers
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Create and play mashups with friends in one click. Introducing Melty!

13K likes702 reposts 326 replies318 quotes 8K bookmarks
1.5M
Views
2x the median launch
#586
Of the launches we track
out of 1981
838x
Its own following
2K followers
55.2
Saves per 10K views
4.7x the median rate

How it compares

A launch means nothing against no one. These are the launches it is actually comparable to, and where this one sits among them.

Compared withLaunchesMedian viewsThis oneRank
Product release
the same kind of announcement
954692K2.2x280
under 5K followers
accounts of a similar size
627227K6.6x67
Every launch
all of them, for scale
1981688K2.2x586

What this launch shows

David Miller posted this from an account with 2K followers and reached 837.8 times that many people. The usual multiple for under 5K followers is 161.4.

This one did 5.2 times that. It ranks 67 of 627 launches from accounts that size. Against every launch in the directory it sits at 2.2 times the median of 688K views.

Saves led. 8K people bookmarked it, 55.2 per 10,000 views against a directory median of 11.7.

A bookmark is a plan to come back, and it tracks signups and demo requests more closely than a like does. The rest: 326 replies, 318 quotes, 702 reposts.

The post opens with “Create and play mashups with friends in one click”. It carries a 44-second video against a directory median of 65 seconds.

Videos between 30 and 90 seconds have a median of 603K views in the directory. The copy runs 12 words, shorter than a launch post here, where the median is 41.

There is a link in the body, which costs a post some reach and buys it a place to send people. It went out on a Sunday. Launches posted on a Sunday have a median of 526K views in the directory, and Friday is the strongest day at 880K.

Launching a product on X from a small account covers this: an account with 2K followers has to earn every view from outside its own following. For the next one, read attributing signups to a launch: a save rate this high is the number to follow into the product.

Giving people something to reply to is the guide for it: the conversation is what carried this one. Every launch we track in Consumer AI is on that vertical's directory page.

Questions about this launch

When did David Miller launch Melty?

David Miller posted the launch on X on 4 October 2026.

How many views did the Melty launch post get?

1,508,940 views at the last read, ranked 586 of the 1981 AI launches Doomers tracks, 838 times the account's following.

Who posted the Melty launch?

@davidmilr, which has 2K followers.

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