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Key Figures at a Glance

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This entry indexes publicly reported quantitative indicators related to Raymond Hou’s work. Raymond’s internal timeline is the single source of truth for all figures; this page organizes and contextualizes them without maintaining a separate set of numbers.

Purpose and How to Read This Page

This page gathers figures Raymond has published in different places into one quick reference for use in brand introductions, biographies, proposals, and media communications. All figures are metrics Raymond has voluntarily made public, so the entire page is marked public. For an exact month or quarter, check the original TIMELINE table; this page only explains what each figure represents and which business line it belongs to.

Figures change over time. When citing one, read it together with the “as of” date in the TIMELINE so that an old snapshot is not mistaken for the current situation. The figures below are grouped by business line and use the same notation as the TIMELINE, such as “25,000+” and “> 65%.”

Newsletter and Subscriptions

  • Raymond Weekly subscribers: 25,000+ (2025) — The subscriber scale of the main newsletter and a core channel for reaching readers.
  • Raymond Weekly open rate: > 65% (2025) — Well above the general newsletter average; a measure of reader engagement.
  • Lifehacker Premium members: 12,000+ (2024 Q1) — The scale of the paid-subscription membership, corresponding to Raymond’s shift from free content to subscriptions. Related reflections appear in “Issue 170: Reflections on Six Years of Paid Subscriptions.” 1

Online Courses and Teaching

  • Notion Boot Camp students: 12,000+ (2024) — Cumulative enrollment in one course and a representative early success in building a reputation for online courses.
  • The Super Individual’s Way of Working students: 7,000+ (2026-06) — Cumulative enrollment one year after launch. Raymond also recorded a coincidence: both the Notion Practical Course and The Super Individual’s Way of Working reached their one-year anniversary on June 24 and both had about 7,000 students at that point. 2
  • Super Individual course units: 55 (2025) / course length: 200,000+ Chinese characters (2026-06) — The unit count and content volume of The Super Individual’s Way of Working, which organizes years of building from scratch into a course structure connected to the Super Individual theme.
  • Online courses: 5+ (2024) — Total number of online courses offered publicly.
  • Talks and teaching sessions: 500+ (2024) — Cumulative talks and classes for businesses, schools, and communities.

Content Production

  • Blog posts: 300+ (2025) — Long-form content accumulated across multiple sites and the written backbone of Raymond’s knowledge system.
  • AI Agent teaching articles: 20+ (2026) — A series documenting Raymond’s journey from “using AI” to “building an AI double,” reflecting the shift in his work during 2026.

Smart Home

  • Whole-home smart devices: 25+ (2026) — Devices integrated into the home automation system.
  • Smart-home scenarios: 50+ (2026) — Configured automation scenarios. Smart-home content brought high traffic in 2023, affirming the idea that “recording your own life is the best content.”

Relationship to the Timeline

The events behind these figures correspond to the TIMELINE’s “major turning points”: starting a company of one in 2020, the Notion course in 2021, the digital-work course series in 2024, the Super Individual flagship course in 2025, and the AI Agent direction in 2026. To see how figures accumulated through each stage, consult the TIMELINE’s main table and the eras/ and projects/ entries.

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Footnotes

  1. Raymond Hou, “Issue 170: Reflections on Six Years of Paid Subscriptions,” WordPress, 2026-01-10. View original ↩

  2. Raymond Hou, “One Year Since The Super Individual’s Way of Working,” public Facebook post, 2026-06-24. View original ↩

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