I hit 200,000 followers on X

I started sharing my thoughts on Twitter in November 2021. Growing an audience was never the goal (and never will be), but I thought: "If I can get a few people watching my work, I won't have to start from 0 when I launch new startups." It took 8 months to get 1,000 followers. It was very slow, but I didn't care because my north star metric was the number of shipped startups. I was having fun, and I was committed. I think early followers felt it. My audience grew faster after shipping 10+ startups. And much faster after the financial success of ShipFast. In July 2024, my Twitter account crossed 100K followers. And here we are, August 2025, with 200K followers, an amount I never even thought was possible for a little guy writing JavaScript and surfing. I'm deeply grateful to every single one of you who has been following the journey. You make me feel less weird and make my life more meaningful. So thank you 200,000 times ❤️