How Slash launched on X
6K views, ranked 1930 of the 1981 launches we track. Reach and saves both sit close to where the rest of this list sits.
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Hack the North is Canada’s biggest hackathon: 1,000+ hackers, one weekend, and a lot of spend. Venues, catering, ad budgets, flights from around the world. This year, Slash was behind the scenes helping make it happen.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product news the same kind of announcement | 769 | 805K | 0.0x | 747 |
| 25K to 100K followers accounts of a similar size | 264 | 963K | 0.0x | 261 |
| Every launch all of them, for scale | 1981 | 688K | 0.0x | 1930 |
What this launch shows
Slash posted this from an account with 32K followers and reached about 17.9% of them. Accounts of that size usually reach 20.9 times their following. This one did not get far past the people who already followed it.
It ranks 261 of 264 launches from accounts that size. Against every launch in the directory it is below the median of 688K views, at rank 1930 of 1981.
Reposts led, 8 at 14 per 10,000 views against a median of 2.5.
A repost is an endorsement without a comment, and a launch with an unusual repost rate was being passed along on purpose. Bookmarks: 9. Replies: 4.
The post opens with “Hack the North is Canada’s biggest hackathon: 1,000+ hackers, one weekend, and a lot of spend”. It carries a 3:00 video against a directory median of 65 seconds. Videos over 90 seconds have a median of 651K views in the directory.
The copy runs 37 words, about the usual length for 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 Friday. Launches posted on a Friday have a median of 880K views in the directory, which makes it the strongest day.
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.
X analytics explained is the guide for it: what each of these numbers means, with benchmarks by account size. Every launch we track in Fintech is on that vertical's directory page.
Questions about this launch
When did Slash launch?
Slash posted the launch on X on 16 October 2026.
How many views did the Slash launch post get?
5,703 views at the last read, ranked 1930 of the 1981 AI launches Doomers tracks, 0 times the account's following.
Who posted the Slash launch?
@slashapp, which has 32K followers.
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