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. 162 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.

#Sector
1Proa

A Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering

DEVT105+1▲ +1.0%02d ago
2Spotatui, a Spotify TUI/GUI without web API rate limitsDEVT9100.0%04d ago
3A guided 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum, built in codeDEVT9000.0%03d ago
4Parsimony

an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add

DEVT7700.0%13d ago
5Ito

Build Terminal UIs in Lua

DEVT7400.0%02d ago
6My Terminal Themes Web AppDEVT43+1▲ +2.4%02d ago
7Building an LLM from Scratch in TypeScriptDEVT33+1▲ +3.1%03d ago
8Deslop

Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript

DEVT3200.0%04d ago
9Sayso, free open source dictation for Mac, Windows, and LinuxDEVT2500.0%04d ago
10Mosh-rs, Mosh rewritten in Rust with scrollback and Windows supportDEVT2000.0%03d ago
11I rewrote my website in SwiftDEVT1700.0%005d ago
12The first short movie built using code and AIDEVT1400.0%03d ago
13Knitting

A shared-memory concurrency runtime for Node.js,Bun,and Deno

DEVT1200.0%04d ago
14ManimGX

Manim's API on a Rust/wgpu engine, for 3D videos in Python

DEVT1000.0%06d ago
15Preloop

GitHub Actions locally in microvms and SSH/pause failures

DEVT900.0%05d ago
16Doiter

Language where pointers and stack frames are Docker containers

DEVT800.0%05d ago
17Gvmux

A native macOS terminal with vertical tabs, built on libghostty

DEVT7+1▲ +16.7%04d ago
18Things to Do APIDEVT6+2—119h ago
19Geneva, a Rust FFmpeg CLI alternative with HTML/CSS graphicsDEVT600.0%003d ago
20Self Hosted System One Decision API for ImagesDEVT600.0%006d ago
21Gitsu.app

A Linear-alternative built on GitHub Projects

DEVT500.0%037h ago
22Videre

a Rust CLI to manage your photos and videos with joy

DEVT500.0%030h ago
23Code Like It's 198xDEVT500.0%03d ago
24Right-click any log line to see its call stack in VS CodeDEVT5+5IPO—007h ago
25An unofficial download picker for the ArtCraft Rust appsDEVT500.0%006d ago
26My AI induced mania in embedded computer graphics engineering [video]DEVT40—044h ago
27Markov Chains for Programmers

free book (2nd ed.) with C code

DEVT40—02d ago
28Turbo Lisp

A Common Lisp IDE for macOS and the Terminal

DEVT4+1—0046h ago
29GitVolt, open source fast Git GUI (Tauri/CEF)DEVT40—002d ago
30Boxsh

a WASM shell sandbox that runs in the browser

DEVT40—004d ago
31THX-01

Open-source decision model, free API, 60M+ tokens processed

DEVT40—005d ago
32Make Okular safer with a sandboxed MuPDF backendDEVT40—005d ago
33TruthBeacon

Open-source Discord moderation app in Tauri and Rust

DEVT40—006d ago
34Nitro

a Python static site generator

DEVT30—05d ago
35Gen-system, parser facts about source code for local LLMsDEVT30—05d ago
36Toolbit

43 local-first developer utilities in one place

DEVT30—026h ago
37Golang DL/ML primitives with inference, diffusion, vision, systemoneDEVT30—03d ago
38Treesum

Replace MS Excel/Project with a Code Editor

DEVT30—04d ago
39Settings-TUI

Lightweight Linux Settings Center in Rust

DEVT30—04d ago
40A Chromium browser you drive with HTTP requests (no Selenium)DEVT30—05d ago
41Sys2txt

transcribe system audio to text in the CLI with a local LLM

DEVT3+3IPO—0011h ago
42Sonia. Local AI Assistant Linux. 13Gb RAM, No GPU, Skills SupportedDEVT30—003d ago
43Give (low vRAM) local sLLMs codebase-wide context with SQLite (attempt)DEVT30—002d ago
44Hatoba, an open-source SSH client with an AI assistant and E2EE syncDEVT30—004d ago
45go-git2

10-100x faster than go-git, libgit2 -> WASM -> Go

DEVT30—003d ago
46Enki LLM A pure rust (even kernels) with live GPU/CPU brain migrationDEVT30—003d ago
47Brutus CLI

Tiny Dagger to Kill Your Mac's Caesar

DEVT30—003d ago
48GenClass, A 10 MB in-browser model that catches bugs that never throwDEVT30—003d ago
49Yagi, Rust DSP LibraryDEVT30—004d ago
50Outloud

Open-source PDF accessibility checker for CLI, CI and browser

DEVT30—004d 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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