How Replit launched ViBench 2.0 on X
14K views, ranked 2180 of the 2314 launches we track. Reach and saves both sit close to where the rest of this list sits.
Today we're releasing ViBench 2.0, a benchmark for long-horizon software building. Agents start from an empty project and build a whole product, one feature at a time, without seeing what comes next. Even the best models (GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, Opus 5.5) pass every check in
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 with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer tools launches from accounts over 100K followers | 175 | 1M | 0.0x | 174 |
| Product news the same kind of announcement | 865 | 742K | 0.0x | 815 |
| over 100K followers accounts of a similar size | 678 | 1.2M | 0.0x | 669 |
| Every launch all of them, for scale | 2314 | 603K | 0.0x | 2180 |
What this launch shows
The post went out from an account with 240K followers and was seen by fewer people than follow the account. For over 100K followers the usual multiple is 2.2, so the ranking model showed this to fewer strangers than it shows most launches.
It ranks 669 of 678 launches from accounts that size. Against every launch in the directory it is below the median of 603K views, at rank 2180 of 2314.
Quote posts led, 15 of them at 11 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.4.
People were adding their own take, which is how a launch gets argued about and carried into audiences the account does not have. Bookmarks: 17. Reposts: 6.
It starts “Today we're releasing ViBench 2.0, a benchmark for long-horizon software building”, a first-person opening that the founder-account launches in the directory use most.
It carries an image and no video. 92% of launches in the directory carry a video, so this is the rarer choice, and the few image launches that travelled did it on the strength of the image.
The copy runs 48 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 622K views in the directory, and Friday is the strongest day at 647K.
Giving people something to reply to covers this: the conversation is what carried this one. For the next one, read why posts from large accounts under-reach: a post seen by fewer people than follow the account was held back by the ranking model.
Whether a launch needs a video is the guide for it: 99% of the launches in the directory carry one, and the guide is about when the 1% is the right call. Every launch we track in Developer Tool is on that vertical's directory page.
Questions about this launch
When did Replit launch ViBench 2.0?
Replit posted the launch on X on 28 October 2026.
How many views did the ViBench 2.0 launch post get?
13,617 views at the last read, ranked 2180 of the 2314 AI launches Doomers tracks, 0 times the account's following.
Who posted the ViBench 2.0 launch?
@Replit, which had 240,079 followers when it posted.
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