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

Highest traction among products launched in the last 7 days. Traction for older Product Hunt launches is frozen (votes stop being re-read ~31–36h after launch; Show HN after 7 days), so this is each product’s last recorded traction. 36 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.

#Sector
1OneDeploy

Managed open-source apps with nightly backups and TLS

INFR26+1▲ +4.0%027h ago
2Stream live open data in two commandsINFR1500.0%04d ago
3deCDN

a peer-to-peer CDN where every piece is BLAKE3-verified

INFR1100.0%02d ago
4Shpyrd

A new type of cloud for AI era

INFR900.0%05d ago
5Chkit

Schema, migrations and backfills for ClickHouse (like Drizzle)

INFR900.0%004d ago
6Homebutler

my server report printed 7 lines for 2 changes, now 2

INFR800.0%005d ago
7Capy-flash

a 125B MoE model on two 16 GB consumer GPUs

INFR7+1▲ +16.7%229h ago
8RooQL

A semantic layer with no server (Ossie models to SQL)

INFR600.0%04d ago
9Oxynote

Self-hosted wiki with live Prometheus/SQL charts and reviews

INFR40—004d ago
10SpawnDroid, Cloud-Provisioned Android Containers via WebRTC and ReDroidINFR3+3IPO—18h ago
11DBJoy

An open-source AI-first PostgreSQL client for macOS

INFR30—05d ago
12TRON-069

mapping the Internet's last-mile management infrastructure

INFR30—0044h ago
13OAuth Mock ServerINFR30—0029h ago
14pg_vectorsearch

Scalable Open-Source Vector Search in PostgreSQL

INFR30—004d ago
15Key/Value Memory CacheINFR30—005d ago
16A Simple Server for Matching Long/Lat to a TimezoneINFR30—007d ago
17Wayseer

A native desktop app for browsing real-time data

INFR20—040h ago
18Lobby Domains

Find Domains with Chrome's On-Device AI

INFR20—0039h ago
19Fakenamegenerator

free browser based mock data generator

INFR20—003d ago
20Monitor Postgres HealthINFR20—004d ago
21A Tailscale identity-aware gateway for Postgres and ClickHouseINFR20—006d ago
22Flopper is a hardware explorer for AI infrastructure and beyondINFR20—007d ago
23Connectio

One local address for all your development servers

INFR1———016h ago
24Pogi

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

INFR10—0022h ago
25QueryDeck

Copy a sanitized slice of production Postgres locally

INFR10—002d ago
26Zero-shot classifier on scale-to-zero GPUs, one forward pass per callINFR10—003d ago
27Lection

describe the data you want, get a table from any web page

INFR10—002d ago
28Forecasting foundation models in the browser, no server (TimesFM, ChINFR10—002d ago
29DearSQL

A native database client in C++ with Dear ImGui

INFR10—003d ago
30NameDaemon, free .com domain tools built on the daily zone fileINFR10—004d ago
31Calíope

a native database client for every Apple screen

INFR10—004d ago
32Find paintings in any image's colors (HNSW from scratch, no server)INFR10—004d ago
33OpenCode server and TUI in a browser tab (Chrome desktop)INFR10—006d ago
34DuckOnWire

Share one DuckDB file over Postgres wire and Quack

INFR10—006d ago
35ClueCDC

Open-Source UI for Managing Debezium and Kafka CDC Pipelines

INFR10—005d ago
36Live Distributed hash table visualizerINFR10—006d 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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