From $0 to my first dev job in 6 months — no CS degree
Demonstrates a path to a dev job in six months without a CS degree.
Why this scored 18
every term, weightedEngagement gained per hour since the last capture, against the fastest item on its own source
Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate
How many independent communities are talking about the same entity
Decays to zero over 14 days
Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked
Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement, and velocity falls back to engagement over its whole lifetime until a second reading exists. Full methodology
Outlook
low confidence · estimate, not a guarantee7-day
~24
range 0–36
14-day
~26
range 0–41
30-day
~27
range 0–46
Signal history
7-day window (free)projected trajectory (estimate, not a guarantee)
Embed a live signal badge
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