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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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launches · Oct 14–Oct 16 vs Oct 11–Oct 13
Launches: Weekday effect likely: Wed–Fri is compared with Sun–Tue, not the same weekdays last week (not enough history yet; expected from about Oct 19). Launch counts and hit rates swing a lot by weekday.Hit rate: Weekday effect likely: Mon–Wed is compared with Fri–Sun, not the same weekdays last week (not enough history yet; expected from about Oct 21). Launch counts and hit rates swing a lot by weekday.
Biggest vote gain between the two latest ingest runs (Oct 17, 02:39 UTC → Oct 17, 13:13 UTC, 10.6h). Launches listed since the earlier run (IPOs) are left out — their “gain” would just be first-day votes — and appear in New Listings instead. Product Hunt and Show HN are ranked separately and alternated (PH #1, HN #1, PH #2, …). 10 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
Mixed sources. Traction is Product Hunt votes (PH) or Show HN points (HN) — not the same unit, and PH has ~7× the launches. So each source is ranked on its own and the two are alternated (PH #1, HN #1, PH #2, HN #2, …); the # column is that combined order. Pick a source above to see one source’s full ranking.
| # | Sector | Src | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sparrow Self-hosted webhook delivery. One binary, just Postgres. | DEVT | PH | 62 | +2 | ▲ +3.3% | 4 | 34h ago | |
| 2 | Things to Do API | DEVT | HN | 6 | +2 | — | 1 | 17h ago | |
| 3 | Proa A Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering | DEVT | HN | 105 | +1 | ▲ +1.0% | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 4 | FinderGit Every Git repo on your Mac: browse, commit, review, clean | DEVT | PH | 61 | +1 | ▲ +1.7% | 0 | 34h ago | |
| 5 | Helicon Open-source desktop app and VS Code panel for Muse Code | DEVT | PH | 59 | +1 | ▲ +1.7% | 0 | 34h ago | |
| 6 | My Terminal Themes Web App | DEVT | HN | 43 | +1 | ▲ +2.4% | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 7 | Building an LLM from Scratch in TypeScript | DEVT | HN | 33 | +1 | ▲ +3.1% | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 8 | Gvmux A native macOS terminal with vertical tabs, built on libghostty | DEVT | HN | 7 | +1 | ▲ +16.7% | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 9 | Turbo Lisp A Common Lisp IDE for macOS and the Terminal | DEVT | HN | 4 | +1 | — | 0 | 0 | 44h ago |
| 10 | Optimistic echo for zero-latency SSH typing | DEVT | HN | 2 | +1 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d 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