# Two million page views took two years last time, and a month this time (slim)

> Vlad Cealicu on reaching two million page views with Anchor Terminal in about a month, with two developers and two Claude subscriptions, after it took CryptoCompare two years and a team of ten, and what that speed does next.

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By Vlad Cealicu, 31 October 2026. 855 words, about 4 min to read.

My last business took two years and a team of ten people to reach two million page views.

I spent twelve years building CryptoCompare, and I was the CTO the first time we got to two million.

## What a day looks like now

At 22:38 on Friday 30 October I sent a launch post about opencommerce and asked whether we should list it.

This is that Friday from git and GitHub, counted at 23:45 [[2]](#ref-2).

- 28: pull requests opened, 26 merged by midnight
- 93: commits on main
- 24: new listings graded (20 on the site that night, 4 waiting for review)
- 17: research agents I started, one per listing or check (Quynh ran her own)

Friday 30 October 2026

The same day we shipped accounts, live stats, a security sweep, the company dashboard and four blog posts.

## Why it feels surreal

I know roughly how long things take, and that sense is now wrong by a factor I can't hold in my head.

The other surreal part is that it already does anything I need.

## Every model drop is an expansion

I don't know if anyone can relate to this, but it feels like going from vanilla WoW to The Burning Crusade.

It's weird.

## It isn't only software

Software is where this showed up first, because the work is text and you can check it by running it.

## What worries me

Checking becomes the job.

Claims will outrun checks.

The gap gets wider.

## What's next

I'm going to keep counting.

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## References

Read on 31 October 2026.

[1] Anchor Terminal's own request records, as the admin page counted them on 31 October 2026: page views of every kind (people, agents and crawlers) answered 2xx or 3xx since the site started.

[2] Anchor Terminal's pull requests and main branch, counted on 30 October 2026 at 23:45 London time: pull requests created that day (#324 to #351), merged or open, commits on main between 00:00 and 24:00 UTC, and listings whose `listed` date is 30 October.