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The guide for founders

Get millions of views on X and Threads and turn them into users.

I went from zero to 3.6 million views a month and a full beta in four months. Here's exactly how, and how I turned those views into users.

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  • Built on my real analytics
  • 20 top posts broken down
  • X and Threads
Cory Althoff
By Cory Althoff
Author of The Self-Taught Programmer (200,000+ copies sold)
The receipts

Every lesson comes from my own data.

I didn't have a team, an ad budget, or an existing audience on X. I did it as a founder doing my own marketing, squeezed in around building a company. I tracked every post along the way, and this guide is what the numbers taught me.

3.6M

views in one month on X and Threads, all from text posts

1,000+

newsletter readers, built from zero in about four months

40

beta signups for my SaaS. I was hoping for 10 to 15.

My monthly views on X and Threads
May to September 2026: from 0 to 3.6 million
Why founders give up

Build in public. Get no views. Give up.

That's how social media goes for most new founders. Building in public works once people already care about you. Before that, nobody wants to read the 10 billionth post about someone building in public failing to get users, so your posts get no views and your account never grows.

I didn't grow by building in public. I grew by sharing my opinions. My biggest post was six words, "The AI job tsunami is coming," and it got 638,000 views. An opinion gives strangers a reason to reply, share, and follow you. Once you have an audience, building in public starts working.

Here's what else keeps founders stuck:

What's inside

The whole system, start to finish.

Hot-taking in public

Why building in public doesn’t work until you have an audience, and why sharing your opinions is how you grow from zero.

Topics

How I tested every subject and found the one that averaged 50% more views and brought in nearly 7x more subscribers than any other.

Formats

Questions vs. statements: which one gets reach, which one gets shared, and the trap that turns founders into hosts for other people's conversations.

Engagement bait

How 4% of my posts brought in 21% of my new followers, and when to stop.

What makes a post get views

Why posts with the most replies reached 30x more people, and the three reasons people reply.

How often to post

Why I post 5 times a day on X and 8 to 10 on Threads, and why I stopped batching a week at a time.

Breakout hits

Why 1 in 5 of my posts drove 78% of my views, and how to get more of them.

X vs. Threads

What my Threads data shows, and why I almost never post the same thing on both.

Turning views into users

The four-step funnel, the comment CTA that brought in 160 subscribers, what I send my newsletter every week, and the exact email that helped get 40 people into my beta.

My top posts, broken down

My ten best posts on X and my ten best on Threads, with the numbers behind each one and why it worked.

A look inside

Real posts. Real numbers. What each one taught me.

The guide breaks down 20 of my best posts, with every view, reply, and repost, plus what worked and what I'd copy.

Cory Althoff@coryalthoff
X
The AI job tsunami is coming
638.5K views1.3K likes389 bookmarks
160 subscribers

The post was only half of it. The comment under it is what turned views into newsletter subscribers.

Cory Althoff@coryalthoff
X
What’s after AI?
93.1K views1K replies374 likes
0 subscribers

Why a post with 1,000 replies didn’t bring in a single subscriber.

Cory Althoff@coryalthoff
X
Stripe only had 50 users two years in. Don’t give up.
81.1K views154 reposts1.7K likes
154 reposts

My most reposted post ever, and why people reply to questions but share statements.

Cory Althoff@coryalthoff
Threads
Anthropic’s reign is over
211.7K views24 replies99 likes
2x the views

What Threads rewards that X doesn’t, and how I doubled a post’s views by rerunning it.

Is this for you?

Which founder are you?

"I post, but I get no views."

That was me. You'll learn why building in public doesn't work before you have an audience, and which topics, formats, and kinds of posts actually get reach.

"I get views, but nobody signs up."

You'll get the four-step funnel I use to turn views into newsletter subscribers, and newsletter subscribers into users.

"I'm about to launch, and nobody knows who I am."

Start building your audience now, so when you launch, you're asking people who already trust you. That's how I got 40 people into my beta.

A note from Cory

Why I wrote this guide.

In June, I posted on X and got 0 likes, 0 comments, and 0 reposts. I kept going, tracked every post, and kept experimenting until the numbers moved.

Almost everything I expected to work didn't. Teaching flopped. Planning a week ahead flopped. Linking to my product got zero signups. What worked was sharing my opinions instead of building in public, testing every topic, writing for each platform, and sending people to my newsletter instead of my product.

Almost every founder I meet is stuck on one of two problems: not getting views, or not turning views into users. This guide is everything I learned solving both, with the data to back it up.

Cory Althoff
Cory Althoff
Author of The Self-Taught Programmer and The Self-Taught Computer Scientist
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Building Your Million View User Funnel on X and Threads

The complete playbook for founders who want to get views and turn them into users

  • The full system, from your first post to your first users
  • My real X and Threads data, with charts
  • My 20 best posts broken down, with the numbers behind each one
  • The comment CTAs that turned views into newsletter subscribers
  • What I send my newsletter every week
  • The exact email that helped get 40 people into my beta
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Questions

Frequently asked questions.

Do I need a big following?

No. X and Threads show your posts to people who don't follow you. I started with no audience on X.

Do I have to make videos?

No. Everything in this guide is about text posts.

Does this work on Threads, or just X?

Both. The guide covers what my data shows on each platform, how they're different, and why I write for each one separately.

Is this a guide on how to write posts?

No. It's about what to post, how often, and how to turn the views you get into users. You'll see 20 of my best posts and why they worked.

I haven't launched my product yet. Is it too early?

No. Building an audience on launch day doesn't work. Start now, so when you launch, you're asking people who already trust you.

How do I get the guide?

Right after checkout, you'll land on a page where you can download it as a 38-page PDF. I'll also email you a copy, so you can always find it.

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