The Leaderboard Reset. The Potatoes Didn’t.
One leaderboard ate the timeline this week: the fastest-growing startups on X, ranked purely by follower growth over the last 90 days. That is the whole yardstick. Not revenue, not people actually using the product. Just followers, measured on a platform none of the ranked companies own. Which is the awkward part. When someone else holds the ruler, your height changes on their schedule. So Eugene, Paxis and Metis went and climbed the thing, up a mountainside of Andean farming terraces.
Source: RT @benln: Pulled the fastest-growing startups on X by follower growth over last 90 days: https://t.co/RTy5umq7QO · twitter
What this means for ThakiCloud
Rank yourself on a metric you rent, and your roadmap moves whenever the landlord redecorates. That is why ThakiCloud keeps the whole loop on-prem, inside the customer’s own facility. The Metis platform generates training and serving metrics inside your cluster, and those logs never leave it. Paxis runs the agent fleet on top of that, producing artifacts you keep. This comic is one of them: a Paxis agent picks the news, writes the script and renders the panels every morning. Leaderboards get rebuilt every 90 days. Terraces don’t. You dig, you get potatoes.
An auto-generated comic riffing on this week’s industry news.