How we scaled to $100M in under a year
My First Million · Latest · 7 Sep 2026 · 2 ad reads
Patterns
Components assembled the way the approved homepage uses them. Copy the recipe; promote it to a component when a second page needs it.
Hero pattern
Podcast search engine and audience data
Search what’s said in episodes, and see who listens, who watches and who sponsors.
My First Million
HubSpot Media · Sam Parr, Shaan Puri · 919 episodes since 2019
1.12M monthly listeners Estimated
956K YouTube subscribers
#86 Spotify US · business
Live data
- 147.8M
- episodes indexed
- 7.4M
- full transcripts, searchable
- 1.39M
- ad reads detected
- 694
- episodes mention HubSpot since 1 Sep
02 The data layer
Every source, one show’s whole story
The record pattern: one show, the numbers that matter first, then the detail.
Lenny’s Podcast
Lenny Rachitsky · Product, growth, AI and careers · weekly
532K listeners a month Estimated · Medium confidence
#26 Apple Podcasts · Technology · US
21.5M YouTube views · 1,806 videos
- 4.9 Apple
- 1,414
- 4.9 Spotify
- 5,408
Sponsors, last 10 episodes 
WorkOS 10/10 
Mercury 9/10 
DX 1/10
WorkOS 10/10 Mercury 9/10 DX 1/10 Recent guests
Molly Graham Glue Club Peter Sellis ex-Snap, Discord Anish Acharya a16z Tara Seshan OpenAI
Page recipe
- Pick the Shell kind: hub, data, article or tool.
- One h1, in the hero. Every section below starts with a ChapterHeader (h2).
- Alternate bands: paper, white, paper. At most one dark band.
- One offset or feature card per section, one action-blue button per screen.
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Every number comes from the API at build time and goes through
lib/format.ts. - Shapes: two per section at most, behind content, gone on phones.
- Check at 375px before 1280px.