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What's going viral with developers on X
Of the 30 developer posts that went viral on X in the week of October 26 to November 1, 2026 and passed Postel's content check, 17% were lists and 50% had a photo or video. The median one was 184 characters long, and the biggest, by @jahirsheikh8, got 1,421 times its creator's usual views.
PostelUpdated Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026 · 30 viral posts · 28 creators · how we count
The top 10
@jahirsheikh8 · 5.3K followers
1,421×their usual
ok dumb question... if password managers store all my passwords in one place, isn't that just one hack away from losing everything? 😭
1.7M views · Oct 29
@zuess05 · 4.8K followers
110×their usual
In 2026, "I built an app" is starting to sound a lot like "I made a PowerPoint."
121K views · Oct 29 · The sharp take
@KevinPicchi · 4.1K followers
99.9×their usual
LinkedIn MCP is live. Manage LinkedIn DMs from Claude, ChatGPT, Grok Bot or in Inboxapp next to your X DMs.
67.9K views · Oct 27 · Photo · Announces something
@aschmelyun · 15.8K followers
62.4×their usual
Every time someone stars this repo, their GitHub profile picture is printed out and stuck to my wall Add yours next 📸
72.5K views · Oct 29 · Video
@azamsharp · 21.1K followers
50.9×their usual
I am developing two apps simultaneously. One is Vibe Coded and other is not. Vibe coded app was done start to finish in 24 hours (submitted for review). Hand-coded + AI assisted (AI used as a reference like Google) I was able to complete a single feature in 24 hours. Both…
44.2K views · Oct 30 · Starts with I or we
@Pauline_Cx · 35.8K followers
34.2×their usual
I like Claude code but it's annoying to need an IDE to modify some code. What do you suggest ? @AnthropicAI is it on your roadmap to add an IDE?
65.5K views · Oct 31 · Starts with I or we
@IamAroke · 7.5K followers
30.2×their usual
Can’t we have a powerful language like C with a simple syntax like python?
48.9K views · Oct 31 · Asks a question
@TheCraigHewitt · 5.2K followers
29×their usual
took the plunge yesterday and wired up all of our logs into one place. stack agnostic, here's the setup: - collect logs - if you're not doign this already, we gotta talk - set up an s3 (or similar) bucket to pipe them into. expire after 90 days for us - create a db-like setup…
16.7K views · Oct 27 · A list
@Love2Code · 20.6K followers
21.2×their usual
More adventures in server land: I used certbot to create an HTTPs certificate, nobody else knew about the domain, and within minutes, ~8 scanner bots had loaded the page, coming from Google Cloud and AWS... Scanners were running headless chrome and one faked being an iPhone.
61K views · Oct 28 · Takes a side
@adrianmg · 8.9K followers
18.5×their usual
I built a notes app inspired by the 80s, when software felt simple and snappy. It launches in 2.6ms. I've taken notes for 10+ years, first in VS Code, then Obsidian. Sometimes I just want to jot down a thought and get back to work. Here's Noted: 🧵
19.1K views · Oct 28 · Video · Leads with a number
The openings behind them
How the 30 viral developer posts opened. 50% had a photo or video (10% a video), and 27% linked out.
| Opening | Share of viral posts |
|---|---|
| No clear hookthe opening matches none of the other rows | 40%12 posts |
| A listthree or more lines that start with a number, dash, bullet or arrow | 17%5 posts |
| Asks a questionthe opening line asks a question“Can’t we have a powerful language like C with a simple syntax like python?” @IamAroke on X (opens in a new tab) | 17%5 posts |
| Starts with I or wethe opening line starts with I, my, we or our“I am developing two apps simultaneously. One is Vibe Coded and other is not.” @azamsharp on X (opens in a new tab) | 10%3 posts |
| Leads with a numbera figure, amount or percentage in the opening line“I built a notes app inspired by the 80s, when software felt simple and snappy. It launches in 2.6ms.” @adrianmg on X (opens in a new tab) | 10%3 posts |
| Announces somethingthe opening line launches, introduces or ships something“LinkedIn MCP is live. Manage LinkedIn DMs from Claude, ChatGPT, Grok Bot or in Inboxapp next to your X DMs.” @KevinPicchi on X (opens in a new tab) | 3%1 post |
| Takes a sidethe opening line pushes back: unpopular opinion, stop, nobody, most people, overrated, is dead“More adventures in server land: I used certbot to create an HTTPs certificate, nobody else knew about the domain, and within minutes, ~8 scanner bots had loaded the page, coming from Google Cloud and…” @Love2Code on X (opens in a new tab) | 3%1 post |
How we count
Postel's library follows thousands of individual creators on X: founders, builders, writers and other people posting as themselves. Brands, news and fan accounts, politicians and aggregators are kept out. This page reads their original English posts from Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026, leaving out replies and reposts.
A post counts as viral when it gets at least 3 times its creator's usual views and 10,000 views in all. A creator's usual is the median views of their posts over the 60 days before the period ended, leaving out posts younger than three days. Comparing each post with its own creator means a big account's ordinary post doesn't count, and a small account's unusually big post does.
A model then reads every viral post, sorts it into a topic by what it's about, and leaves out politics, gossip, news about other people, health claims, get-rich pitches, giveaways and anything else this page shouldn't feature. A second, stricter model approves each post before it's shown with its creator's name. The list ranks the approved posts by how far each beat its creator's usual, one post per creator. Openings are sorted by the plain rules in the table.
Every post links to the original on X. Creators: if you'd rather your post weren't on this page, send its link through the contact form and it comes off within a few days.
Other topics
Or see what's going viral on X this week across every topic.
- AI68 viral posts passed our check last week
- Startups and founders23 viral posts passed our check last week
- Careers and work29 viral posts passed our check last week
- Marketing and sales15 viral posts passed our check last week
- Design10 viral posts passed our check last week
- Investing10 viral posts passed our check last week
- Content creators7 viral posts passed our check last week
Questions
What developer posts are going viral on X right now?
From Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026, 30 developer posts from 28 creators in Postel's library went viral (each got at least 3 times its creator's usual views and 10,000 views in all) and passed its content check. The 10 that beat their creator's usual by the most are on this page, with a link to each on X.
What do viral developer posts have in common?
Of the 30 developer posts that went viral on X in the week of October 26 to November 1, 2026 and passed Postel's content check, 17% were lists and 50% had a photo or video. The median one was 184 characters long, and the biggest, by @jahirsheikh8, got 1,421 times its creator's usual views.
How does Postel decide a post went viral?
A post counts as viral when it gets at least 3 times its creator's usual views and 10,000 views in all. A creator's usual is the median views of their posts over the 60 days before that week ended (leaving out the last three days). The topic comes from what the post is about, not from who wrote it.
How often is this page updated?
Every Tuesday. It covers the last full week (Monday to Sunday), so a topic has enough posts to show what's working.
I'm on this list. Can I have my post removed?
Yes. Send the post's link through the contact form at postel.app/contact and it comes off this page and every page like it within a few days.