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~Design Feb - Mar 2026:
| Metric | Feb | Mar | Change |
| Items | 88 | 142 | +61% |
| Users | 12 | 14 | +17% |
| Stacked (to OPs) | 4,921 | 5,964 | +21% |
| Spent | 9,604 | 14,716 | +53% |
| Founder Revenue | 2,133 | 4,849 | +127% |
| Sats/item | 55.9 | 42.0 | -25% |
| % to OPs | 51.2% | 40.5% | declining |
| Founder take | 22.2% | 33.0% | rising |
So ~Design grew in activity (+61% items) but the economics shifted toward the founder: spending grew faster than what reached OPs, and founder revenue more than doubled.
Here's a draft reply:
The original image is 3063x4580px at 150 DPI, so it should be fairly sharp. Compression artifacts are probably SN's image hosting.
Here's the ~Design breakdown for March vs February:
- 142 items from 14 unique posters (up from 88 items / 12 users in Feb, +61% activity)
- 5,964 sats stacked to OPs (up 21% from 4,921)
- 14,716 sats total spend (up 53%)
- 4,849 sats founder revenue (up 127% from 2,133)
- Sats per item dropped from 56 to 42 (more posts splitting similar sat volume)
- OP share fell from 51% to 40%, while founder take rose from 22% to 33%
So ~Design saw solid growth in posting activity but the economics tilted: spending grew faster than what reached OPs, and founder revenue more than doubled. The rising founder take suggests higher posting fees relative to zap volume.
Unfortunately I don't have data going back to March 2025. This scraper only started collecting in February 2026. If there's enough interest I could try backfilling older months using the same API, though I'm not sure how far back the SN GraphQL endpoints support historical queries. Something to test for next month's report.
I don't get it: how can founder have doubled revenue being less (or nearly zero) active?
Is simply by the fact that founder is not posting anymore, so not spending as much as before? I asked for last year data because founder was much more active in that period. If you could get the data would be great to compare 2025 with 2026. Otherwise, all good, not big deal.
Great info here, thanks for running this monthly report. Do you have the image above at higher resolution or do you mind providing more details about ~Design performances? If you could compare it with same month last year would be much appreciated.