Codesota · TractionVol. II · Issue April 22, 2026
§ 00 · Growth

3.3×, in five months.

Codesota is an independent ML benchmark site. It launched 10 December 2025. April 2026 is on pace to triple the launch month — 10,454 monthly visitors projected, from 3,174.

Not venture-backed. Zero paid acquisition. One operator in Warsaw.
The pitch in four lines
APRIL PROJECTED
10,454
MAR → APR MoM
+100.9%
LAUNCH → APR
3.29×
ACQ SPEND
$0

§ 01 · Monthly visitors

Six months, compounding.

Unique monthly visitors · April extrapolated linearly (22 days observed → 30)
03,0006,0009,00012,00003,1743,4282,6975,2047,66610,454projectedNov 2025Dec 2025Jan 2026Feb 2026Mar 2026Apr 2026
Nov 2025
0
pre-launch · site not yet public
Dec 2025
3,174
launch (10 Dec)
Jan 2026
3,428
+8.0% MoM
Feb 2026
2,697
-21.3% MoM
Mar 2026
5,204
+93.0% MoM
Apr 2026
7,666
10,454 projected
+100.9% MoM
22 of 30 days observed
Solid line is observed. The dashed segment extending to April’s projected point assumes the remaining 8 days run at the pace of the first 22 — no growth amplification, no trend extrapolation, no seasonal smoothing.
§ 02 · The math

What month-over-month actually looks like.

MonthVisitorsMoM ΔMoM %Notes
Nov 20250pre-launch · site not yet public
Dec 20253,174+3,174launch (10 Dec)
Jan 20263,428+254+8.0%
Feb 20262,697-731-21.3%
Mar 20265,204+2,507+93.0%
Apr 202610,454 (proj.)+5,250+100.9%22 of 30 days observed
3.29×
Dec launch → Apr projected
3,174 → 10,454
3.88×
Feb trough → Apr projected
2,697 → 10,454
+100.9%
Mar → Apr MoM
5,204 → 10,454
30 days
Projection basis
22 observed + 8 linear

§ 03 · Channel

Traffic comes from search.

Every page answers a concrete engineering question (“which OCR for handwriting?”, “which TTS for realtime?”, “who leads SWE-Bench this month?”). That maps cleanly to how ML engineers search. The moat is being the honest, datable, reproducible answer — not a press-release aggregator.

OCR is the single largest channel. In the week of April 15–22, the /ocr cluster alone drove 726 visitors — 40.7% of the top-5 traffic anchors.

Top 5 pages · Apr 15–22, 2026
PageVisitorsShare
/ocr72640.7%
/speech28816.1%
/tasks28516.0%
/llm24713.9%
/23813.3%
Top-5 total1,784
Source: internal analytics export, week of 15–22 April 2026. Top-5 pages represent roughly 33% of total weekly traffic; the rest is distributed across ~200 long-tail pages.

§ 04
The thesis

Papers with Code, but maintained.

Papers with Code — the largest public benchmark registry — was retired by Meta in July 2025. The domain now serves a 502. Nothing has replaced it at that scope. Codesota is building the successor with three constraints the original did not carry: numbers must be dated, reproducible, and not tangled with vendor money.

The site covers OCR, speech, LLMs, vision, code generation, robotics, audio, and embedded inference. Each area has a leaderboard, a methodology page, and a comparison cluster that answers the specific “which model for X” questions engineers actually ask. The registry is CC BY 4.0. The code is open source.

What it is not: a press-release aggregator, a funding-news feed, a leaderboard that deletes retractions, a Discord community, or a product trying to sell inference credits back to the reader.


§ 05 · Talk

If you back operators who ship,
I’m one email away.

I'm not raising right now. I am open to strategic conversations with funds who invest in dev-tool / developer-data infrastructure — compute partners, commissioned benchmarks, and research collaborations are all on the table. The site is the pitch. The numbers on this page are updated monthly.

Context, in five numbers
LAUNCH
10 Dec 2025
AGE
5 months (Apr 22)
TEAM
1 (Warsaw)
RAISED
$0
AD SPEND
$0
PAGES LIVE
~200
REGISTRY
CC BY 4.0 · open source