"How many trends should I actually be tracking at once?"

"How many trends should I actually be tracking at once?"

Q: An operational question. Respect.

Short answer: three to five live ones in your niche — more than that and you're a spectator, not a creator.

Longer answer: trend-tracking has diminishing returns. Beyond a handful, you spend your hours scrolling and 'researching' instead of shipping, and the ones you'd actually use you'd have spotted anyway. The winning cadence is a short daily scan of your niche's top recent posts, flag what's climbing, and post against one or two per week. Verdict: depth over breadth. A creator who acts fast on three trends beats one who 'monitors' twenty. Set a timer for your scan, then close the app and make something.