LAUNCH·INDEX
LNCH1,007+7.6%

Experimental: traction = early-adopter votes (PH) / points (HN), not downloads or usage; updated about once a day and frozen ~31–36h after launch on Product Hunt (7 days on Show HN); sectors come from keyword rules (~70–75% accurate); data starts Oct 3 (HN) / Oct 9 (PH). “—” means not enough data; nothing is estimated. How it works

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Data as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC · traction last updated Oct 17, 13:13 UTC · updates about once a day

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LNCHLaunch Index · all sectors
451+26 (+6.1%)

launches · Oct 14–Oct 16 vs Oct 7–Oct 9 (same weekday)

Hit rate (settled)
8.1%
— · Oct 12–Oct 14 vs Oct 5–Oct 7
Trend · Volatility
+2.9 · 27%
40 hits of 496 settled
daily launches, 13 complete days

Launched on Oct 16 (the latest complete UTC day) or listed since the previous run (IPO), ranked by current traction. Product Hunt launches all list at 07:01 UTC; their traction has had at most one or two daily updates. 7 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.

#Sector
1OneDeploy

Managed open-source apps with nightly backups and TLS

INFR26+1▲ +4.0%027h ago
2Capy-flash

a 125B MoE model on two 16 GB consumer GPUs

INFR7+1▲ +16.7%229h ago
3SpawnDroid, Cloud-Provisioned Android Containers via WebRTC and ReDroidINFR3+3IPO—18h ago
4OAuth Mock ServerINFR30—0029h ago
5Wayseer

A native desktop app for browsing real-time data

INFR20—040h ago
6Lobby Domains

Find Domains with Chrome's On-Device AI

INFR20—0039h ago
7Pogi

AWS, Google Cloud and Azure on your machine, in one binary

INFR10—0022h ago

Traction = current votes (PH) / points (HN) — early-adopter attention, not downloads or usage. Gained = traction gained between the two latest daily ingest runs; Gain % only when the previous traction was 5+. Buzz = comments gained in that interval. “frozen” = no longer tracked, so no current gain. How it works

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