Launch Videos

The problem is you think you have time.

The spoken opening line (at most 25 words).

121k views

Fewer views than 73% of the library · #437 of 598

Runtime
0:46
Posted
Jul 23, 2026
Pace
178 wpm
Stan on X

Most people who are exceptional at what they do are completely invisible online. Today…

0:46 · Jul 23, 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 StanRuntime 0:46. First five seconds: Problem statement. 0–5s hook · Problem statement0:000:120:230:340:46
  • First five secondsProblem statement

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

Narration pace

178 words a minute · brisk

Narration pace: 178 words per minute; library median 142.SparseConversationalBriskDenselibrary median 142

Launches at this pace have a median of 327k views (n=215). 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

  • 0.5× the median problem, then agitate launch (257k, n=177)
  • 0.3× the median AI agent launch (377k, n=164)
  • 0.3× 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. Problem, then agitaten=177 · median 257k
  3. AI agentn=164 · median 377k

One launch Median This launchViews, log scale

Show the data
GroupVideosMedian25th pct75th pctMax
All launches598407,120103,0301,346,326138,357,050
Problem, then agitate177256,92360,264948,24644,763,150
AI agent164376,795101,5391,583,684138,357,050

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Same hook style, closest view count, same category first.

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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