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Hacker News · Swizec · Posted July 28, 2026 · Reviewed September 1, 2026

“I tweeted the same email as a link and got pretty good engagement! 20 likes, 2 retweets – that's decent for me these days. It was seen 1400 times. 78 people clicked on a link.”

This is the entry's dashboard, assembled by hand in a comment. He published the same piece to his newsletter and to Twitter, says he has roughly as many followers as email subscribers, and sets the two side by side: 4,600 recorded opens and 780 link clicks on the email, against 1400 impressions and 78 clicks on the tweet. Nobody unified anything for him — he counted. That is the work the entry offers to automate, and it is also where the case for it stops, for three reasons. The only reply he drew attacks the number the comparison rests on: open rates are no longer meaningful in the absolute, because some providers strip tracking pixels and others fire every one of them, so clicks are all that survives. A dashboard spanning these platforms would unify one honest metric and one broken one. He is also arguing that newsletters still get read, not asking to be sold a tool. And he names neither the newsletter nor the account, so not one of the four figures can be checked outside the thread.