Launch Videos

Yo, this one go out to every agent on the grind.

The spoken opening line (at most 25 words).

1.4M views

More views than 76% of the library · #139 of 598

Runtime
1:41
Posted
May 7, 2026
Pace
133 wpm
Matt Van Horn on X

Introducing the Printing Press, a CLI-factory and a CLI-library. Built with @trevin. 🏭🖨📚…

1:41 · May 7, 2026

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Launch anatomy

When each beat happens. Beats that weren’t found are left out; the full transcript isn’t published.

Launch anatomy for Matt Van HornRuntime 1:41. First five seconds: Other spoken line. 0–5s hook · Other spoken line0:000:250:501:161:41
  • First five secondsOther spoken line

Not detected: company named, product named, demo starts, call to action

Narration pace

133 words a minute · conversational

Narration pace: 133 words per minute; library median 142.SparseConversationalBriskDenselibrary median 142

Launches at this pace have a median of 346k views (n=185). Pace covers the whole runtime, pauses included.

Show the data
PaceMedian viewsVideos (n)
Sparse (0–80)571,51184
Conversational (80–140)346,258185
Brisk (140–180)326,715215
Dense (180–+)670,38071

How it compares

  • 2.7× the median humor or meme launch (536k, n=22)
  • 3.1× the median dev tool launch (465k, n=76)
  • 3.5× the library median (407k, n=598)
Where this launch landsEach dot is one launch. The ringed dot is this one.
  1. All launchesn=598 · median 407k
  2. Humor or memen=22 · median 536k
  3. dev tooln=76 · median 465k

One launch Median This launchViews, log scale

Show the data
GroupVideosMedian25th pct75th pctMax
All launches598407,120103,0301,346,326138,357,050
Humor or meme22535,534202,3211,118,00410,265,531
dev tool76464,900185,732938,0914,777,820

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Hook style, category, “why it worked” and the takeaway are AI-assisted labels, not hand-reviewed. Beat timings miss some moments: “not detected” does not mean it never happened.

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Videos belong to the companies that posted them and play through X’s official embed, which loads only after you click. Hook labels and “why it worked” notes are AI-assisted analysis and can be wrong. Curated from public launch posts on X. Data as of Nov 4, 2026. Corrections and removal