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Creators worth following for Build in public: 15 accounts, ranked by their posts

31 accounts write about Build in public often enough to count. The 15 whose Build in public posts travelled furthest, each with their best post — and how to turn the list into a board you can write from.

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31 accounts in the library write about Build in public often enough for it to be a real share of their work. These are the 15 whose Build in public posts travelled furthest — ranked by what those posts did, not by how many people follow them, which is the difference between a list you can check and a list of famous names.

The 15

  1. Tim Cook (@tim_cook) — 4 posts in the library, 127.5K likes, a typical post reaching 25.6K. Best: “As a proud American company, we're thrilled to continue to make significant investments in the US. Today, we’re announc…” (open)
  2. CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) — 3 posts in the library, 19.6K likes, a typical post reaching 6K. Best: “Activision has now confirmed some in game content in Call of Duty is AI generated.” (open)
  3. Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) — 5 posts in the library, 9.9K likes, a typical post reaching 640. Best: “Some news: I’ve heard from three sources that CBS News dismissed the #2 producer on the CBS Evening News, Javier Guzman…” (open)
  4. Quinn Nelson (@SnazzyLabs) — 10 posts in the library, 13.6K likes, a typical post reaching 979. Best: “The tardiness of Apple Intelligence’s introduction, the delay in shipping promised features, and the underwhelming capa…” (open)
  5. Boring_Business (@BoringBiz_) — 5 posts in the library, 22.1K likes, a typical post reaching 2.3K. Best: “SpaceX IPO valuation implies a 93x revenue multiple and you don’t even have a P/E ratio because the company has negativ…” (open)
  6. Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) — 2 posts in the library, 3K likes, a typical post reaching 1.5K. Best: “Audience Building 101” (open)
  7. bone (@boneGPT) — 5 posts in the library, 14.5K likes, a typical post reaching 2K. Best: “Where to put your money now that Stargate was announced?” (open)
  8. Wasteland Capital (@ecommerceshares) — 5 posts in the library, 35.2K likes, a typical post reaching 2.2K. Best: “Do NOT install any agentic browsers like OpenAI Atlas that just launched.” (open)
  9. NetBlocks (@netblocks) — 2 posts in the library, 6.1K likes, a typical post reaching 3.1K. Best: “⚠️ Update: As #Iran wakes up to a new day, metrics show the national internet blackout is past the 84 hour mark.” (open)
  10. Tony Zhao (@tonyzzhao) — 2 posts in the library, 6.9K likes, a typical post reaching 3.5K. Best: “Today, we present a step-change in robotic AI @sundayrobotics.” (open)
  11. Nick Fox (@thefox) — 3 posts in the library, 2K likes, a typical post reaching 486. Best: “Whenever I post about Google Finance, I get two top questions: (1) when are portfolios coming? (2) can we get an app?” (open)
  12. Bob Wachter (@Bob_Wachter) — 2 posts in the library, 1.3K likes, a typical post reaching 665. Best: “1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 34” (open)
  13. 𝐷𝑟. 𝐼𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 (@IanCutress) — 2 posts in the library, 1.6K likes, a typical post reaching 824. Best: “This looks amazing!” (open)
  14. Fireworks (@FireworksAI_HQ) — 2 posts in the library, 1.9K likes, a typical post reaching 968. Best: “Kimi K3 is live on Fireworks. Day 0, inference and training. US-hosted, and zero data retention.” (open)
  15. Noam Shazeer (@NoamShazeer) — 2 posts in the library, 1.3K likes, a typical post reaching 635. Best: “Last week we upgraded Gemini 3 Deep Think. Today, we’re shipping the core intelligence that makes those breakthroughs p…” (open)

How the ranking works

A creator is on this list only when Build in public is at least a fifth of what they publish in the library, and the order is the reach of their Build in public posts specifically — an account that is enormous on another subject and posts about Build in public twice does not lead a list about Build in public. Every number above is a post you can open, and every name opens to their page: what else they write about, how they open, and every post of theirs the library holds.

How to use a list like this

A list of people is the beginning of a board, not the end of one.

  1. Open a name that interests you and press Save their best — their five strongest posts go into a board of yours in one step.
  2. Do that for two or three of them. You now have a board of Build in public posts with a point of view: this is the kind of Build in public writing I want to make.
  3. On each post, write one line about what you want from it — the opening, the way it turns, the ending. Point at the part with the Take chips.
  4. When you have something to say about Build in public, open the board and Remix. Your product, their moves, none of their words.

Or start from the Build in public posts themselves, ordered by likes.

See it in the posts

Every number above is a post in the library, with the mechanics named beside it.

Open the library

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