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. 24 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.

#Sector
1Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally freeOSRC221+1▲ +0.5%03d ago
2AsoBeast

Open-Source ASO Rank Tracker for App Store and Google Play

OSRC1000.0%007d ago
3Free LED pixel-pitch and display-size calculators (open source)OSRC500.0%06d ago
4RoboGym

open-source (Apache-2.0) Dual arm SO101 playground

OSRC500.0%004d ago
5OpenMCX

An open source mission critical communications stack

OSRC30—004d ago
6Expose

Self-hosted ngrok alternative in Go

OSRC30—005d ago
7Cwist; a hobby-grade C17 web framework that keeps your app simpleOSRC2+2IPO—213h ago
8Reelbird, an open-source Loom and Screen Studio alternative for macOSOSRC20—0026h ago
9Alternative to Cube and MetricFlowOSRC20—005d ago
10Terra

Restore Wasteland – Looking for Feedbacks – Soon Open Source

OSRC10—0025h ago
11GPT-2 124M trained from scratch

2.48B tokens, 2.8h on 4 A40s

OSRC10—002d ago
12GovTech Index, the state of government open sourceOSRC10—002d ago
13A minimalistic building blocks style C++ coroutine libraryOSRC10—002d ago
14eqMini

Open-source macOS equalizer with per-app controls

OSRC10—0044h ago
15CueLight

open-source <2mb/0.5M param always listening turn detector

OSRC10—003d ago
16Bokal

Open-source cookie editor without the "tabs" permission

OSRC10—002d ago
17I tried SERPSpur as an alternative to semrushOSRC1frozen——02d ago
18Multi persona library to eradicate Spec HallucinationOSRC10—002d ago
19Pluto

open-source second-brain for work

OSRC10—004d ago
20Podway

your self-hosted apps, run by an AI admin

OSRC10—004d ago
21Keepjson

Open-source jsonbin.io alternative on Cloudflare Workers

OSRC10—004d ago
22RME

open-source Android scanner with no INTERNET permission

OSRC10—005d ago
23Open-Source Canva AlternativeOSRC10—006d ago
24Modelship

an open source ray backed model cluster

OSRC10—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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