How Humwork launched on X

1.8M views, ranked 507 of the 1981 launches we track. Reach and saves both sit close to where the rest of this list sits.

Posted 2026-04-15 by @ycombinator · engagement read 2026-08-30

Humwork launch post on X1:26
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AI agents will pay you to chat with them. When AI agents hit a wall, Humwork's (@humworkai) MCP server connects them to a verified domain expert in 30 seconds. Their experts include senior engineers, marketers, designers, and more. Congrats on the launch, @theyashgoenka and

2K likes242 reposts 356 replies320 quotes 1K bookmarks
1.8M
Views
3x the median launch
#507
Of the launches we track
out of 1981
1x
Its own following
1.6M followers
8.3
Saves per 10K views
0.7x 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 news
the same kind of announcement
769805K2.2x221
over 100K followers
accounts of a similar size
6111.4M1.3x267
Every launch
all of them, for scale
1981688K2.6x507

What this launch shows

Humwork posted this from an account with 1.6M followers and reached 1.1 times that many people. Accounts of that size usually reach 2.4 times their following.

This one did not get far past the people who already followed it. It ranks 267 of 611 launches from accounts that size. Against every launch in the directory it sits at 2.6 times the median of 688K views.

Quote posts led, 320 of them at 1.8 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.3.

People were adding their own take, which is how a launch gets argued about and carried into audiences the account does not have. Bookmarks: 1K. Reposts: 242.

The post opens with “AI agents will pay you to chat with them”. It carries a 1:26 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 45 words, about the usual length for a launch post here, where the median is 41.

The body carries a link, so the post had somewhere to send the reader and paid a little reach for it. It went out on a Wednesday. Launches posted on a Wednesday have a median of 721K views in the directory, and Friday is the strongest day at 880K.

X analytics explained covers this: what each of these numbers means, with benchmarks by account size.

Questions about this launch

When did Humwork launch?

Humwork posted the launch on X on 15 April 2026.

How many views did the Humwork launch post get?

1,787,374 views at the last read, ranked 507 of the 1981 AI launches Doomers tracks, 1 times the account's following.

Who posted the Humwork launch?

@ycombinator, which has 1.6M followers.

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