Developer's X growth experiment: hook fixes and bookmark-worthy posts drove 30x impressions
tibo_maker · x · 2026-10-16
Indie developer Taras Shyn applied three tips from tibomaker's X newsletter and grew a post from 1K impressions and 2 bookmarks to 30K impressions and nearly 1K bookmarks.
The three principles:
- If a post flops within 30 minutes, rewrite the hook and repost
- People bookmark what they'll use later
- Long beats short
Concretely, he replaced a one-liner announcement ("My project is on Vercel") with a longer how-to guide worth bookmarking — a directly replicable playbook for indie makers doing distribution.
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