Brian Potter has 125,784 followers on Substack as of Nov 1, 2026. On the latest board read, Nov 6, 2026, they were #38 on Substack's Technology Bestsellers board. 68 publications recommend them, 12 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 6.
Last read Nov 1, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.
- Followers
- 125,784
- read Nov 1
- Last 7 days
- first number on Nov 7
- Last 30 days
- first number on Nov 30
- Subscribers
- 77K+
- rounded by Substack
- Paid subscribers
- Thousands
- bestseller badge 1,000+
- Recommended by
- 68
- +12 in 30 days
- Recommends
- 6
- Bestsellers rank
- #38
- Technology
Followers by day
Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. 2 days of readings. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.
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| Date | Followers | Change | Subscribers | Paid band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2026 | 125,784 | −23 | 77K+ | Thousands |
| Oct 31, 2026 | 125,807 | 77K+ | Thousands |
Leaderboard positions
| Board | Rank now | Best on record | Reads on it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technology Bestsellers | #38 | #37 | 4 of 4 |
Rank on each read
| Writer | Oct 3107:00 | Oct 3113:00 | Oct 3119:47 | Nov 621:50 | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Technology Bestsellers | 37 | 37 | 37 | 38 | ▼1 |
I read every board once a day.
Recommendations
68 publications recommend Brian Potter; 12 started in the last 30 days. Brian Potter recommends 6, and 1 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.
When the recommendations started
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| Month | Started |
|---|---|
| 2022-04 | 1 |
| 2022-09 | 1 |
| 2022-10 | 1 |
| 2022-11 | 1 |
| 2022-12 | 1 |
| 2023-02 | 1 |
| 2023-03 | 1 |
| 2023-05 | 1 |
| 2023-06 | 1 |
| 2024-08 | 2 |
| 2024-10 | 1 |
| 2024-12 | 2 |
| 2025-01 | 1 |
| 2025-06 | 1 |
| 2025-11 | 1 |
| 2026-06 | 6 |
| 2026-07 | 16 |
| 2026-08 | 7 |
| 2026-09 | 10 |
| 2026-10 | 12 |
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All 68
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- Dontae X.Y. Lopezstarted Sep 18, 2026
- Build Playbook by Luke MacDougallstarted Sep 15, 2026
- Amarri's Substackstarted Sep 11, 2026
- Progress Colombiastarted Sep 10, 2026
- Words in an order that is newstarted Sep 8, 2026
- PrometheanWanderer started Sep 6, 2026
- La Direction du ventstarted Sep 6, 2026
- Nine-Boxstarted Aug 31, 2026
- Gameprogstarted Aug 30, 2026
- Jak Tianostarted Aug 24, 2026
- Friction and Flowstarted Aug 21, 2026
- Structural Inferencestarted Aug 16, 2026
- Depuis l'atelierstarted Aug 15, 2026
- The Nerve to Buildstarted Aug 10, 2026
- Lilly's Substackstarted Jul 27, 2026
- Shirish's Substackstarted Jul 24, 2026
- Il Substack di marcostarted Jul 24, 2026
- SDDD's Substackstarted Jul 23, 2026
- Conviction & Consequencestarted Jul 21, 2026
- Mind Meets Matterstarted Jul 21, 2026
- Mike's Substackstarted Jul 21, 2026
- The Address Indexstarted Jul 19, 2026
- Mark Twains Ghoststarted Jul 17, 2026
- Deep Dirtstarted Jul 14, 2026
- Before the mirror's Substackstarted Jul 12, 2026
- Aneesh's Substackstarted Jul 12, 2026
- wilburforce's Substackstarted Jul 11, 2026
- n=1 economicsstarted Jul 7, 2026
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Recommends
- Anton Howes87k followers · started Jul 2023 · mutual
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Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.
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