37 commits with Claude, one post on X, and 3,947 circles later: everything that happened in the first ten days, including the numbers that did not go up.
By Martin Lasek · Oct 7, 2026 · 6 min read
X Circle is a free tool on wishkit.io. You type an X username, and it draws the people that account really talks to: an inner circle ranked one to three, and a wider circle around it. I built it in five days with Claude and launched it with a single post on X. This is my own circle:
I thought it was a good combination of value and fun. Everyone is a little curious about who is in their circle, and a tool that answers that in a few seconds gives people a reason to post the result. And every circle that gets shared carries wishkit.io/x-circle in its corner.
I posted my own circle. Over the next one to three days I posted one or two circles of friends, and one or two friends posted and reposted theirs. That was the whole launch.
For the first two days, nothing happened in search. Then people who had seen circles on X started typing the name into Google, and the page ranked for it almost right away.
The searches show how people heard about it: "x circle", "x-circle", "x circle generator", "my x circle", "twitter circle", and typos like "x curcle" and "x cicle". Of the 4,749 visits that landed on the tool between September 26 and October 6, Google sent 3,076, links on X sent 790, 504 came direct, and ChatGPT sent 150. Instagram and Facebook together sent about ten.
So X carried the idea and Google carried the people. The peak passed after September 30, and by October 5 the tool was down to about a hundred Google clicks a day, which is still more than ten times what the whole site got before.
How much it was used without me noticing. By the time I looked at the numbers, thousands of circles had been drawn by people who found the tool through someone else's post or through a search.
In the 15 days before the launch, WishKit got 15 sign-ups, about one a day. In the 10 days after, it got 48, about five a day, with 10 on September 30, the day of the Google peak. By October 5 it was back to one a day.
Only three of the 48 came through a link on the X Circle page, so I can't say exactly how many came from the tool. And they behaved differently. Before the launch, 9 of 15 new accounts connected the SDK to an app or website, and one became a paying customer. After it, 2 of 48 connected the SDK, and none has paid so far. These accounts are only one or two weeks old, so I will look at them again at the end of October. For now the honest headline is five times the sign-ups, and almost none of them app makers. People came for a circle, not for a feedback board.
One more honest note: Search Console shows the whole site's click rate and average position jumping too. That is only because X Circle's own searches now make up most of the average. The other pages did not suddenly rank better.
Below the tool sits a WishKit feedback board, embedded the same way any customer embeds it on a website. Visitors have asked for an Instagram Circle (9 votes), a Threads version (2) and custom colors (2). That list is what I look at when I decide what X Circle gets next.
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