The climb to 100: Fleeting building in public

Watch a tiny list climb to 100.

No big list yet, no brand you have heard of -- just an honest count and the issues we have actually shipped, out in the open. At this size every single subscriber moves the number, and you can watch it happen. That is the whole point, and it only works right now, while we are small.

Readers on the climb20 of 100

80 to go. At this size a single new subscriber is a step you can see -- which is exactly why we are doing this in the open now and not later. (as of 2026-10-11)

The milestone journal

Every entry below is a real issue that actually went out -- the climb, issue by issue. No invented numbers; just what we shipped and when.

Issue 012 - Thu, October 8, 2026

Pet Psychic Readings, and 22 more before they're gone

Issue 011 - Thu, October 1, 2026

Bedazzled and Brewed, and 26 more before they're gone

Issue 010 - Thu, September 24, 2026

Guilty Pleasures 25th Anniversary - THE FINAL SHOW AT 3rd & Lindsley, and 34 more before they're gone

Issue 008 - Thu, August 27, 2026

Please Don't Destroy plays TPAC Saturday, and the clock is louder than usual

Issue 007 - Thu, August 20, 2026

Out of the Parthenon for the first time in forty years, and it closes Sunday

Issue 006 - Thu, August 13, 2026

Whitt's and Audrey both serve their last plate

Issue 004 - Thu, July 30, 2026

Hilary Duff at Ascend, Burger Up's last weekend in 12South, and Broadway goes car-free for Robert's

Issue 003 - Thu, July 23, 2026

Kindling Arts goes utopian, a San Sebastian wine dinner under the stars, and Turnpike at Ascend

Issue 002 Thu, July 16, 2026

Journal Pop tonight, Tori at the Ryman, and a creek dinner at Hachland Hill

Issue 001 Thu, July 9, 2026 The Debut

Harry Connick tonight, a spritz rooftop on a timer, and a race with deadmau5

Issue Zero The Welcome Edition

Here for a moment.

Why this only works because we are small

A counter climbing to 100 is only interesting while the numbers are small enough that one person changes them. Once a list is the one everybody in Nashville already has, "watch us grow" stops meaning anything -- the number moves whether you showed up or not. So this is a window that closes on itself: there is exactly one climb from nothing to 100, and you are standing in it. That is not a growth hack bolted on; it is the same thing Fleeting is about -- the stuff that is here, then gone.

Be the next number. You will be #21.

Subscribe and you are reader #21 on a public climb to 100 -- a number only this honest while we are still small. This list does not ping you -- no alerts, no same-day notifications, just the Thursday heads-up in your inbox.

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Fleeting is the weekly list of Nashville's time-limited food, drink and events -- the things that are here. then gone. See what that looks like on the conditions board and the founding era page.