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
3,716+576 (+18.3%)

launches · Oct 14–Oct 16 vs Oct 11–Oct 13

Hit rate (settled)
6.3%
— · Oct 12–Oct 14 vs Oct 9–Oct 11
Trend · Volatility
+8.4 · 33%
228 hits of 3,645 settled
daily launches, 8 complete days

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.

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. 58 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.

#SectorSrc
1Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally freeOSRCHN221+1▲ +0.5%02d ago
2OpenWhispr for iOS

100% open source, free & on device transcription

OSRCPH102frozen——4d ago
3Reelbird

Open Source Loom + Screen Studio alternative for Mac

OSRCPH90frozen——2d ago
4AsoBeast

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

OSRCHN1000.0%007d ago
5GitComet 0.3.0

Fastest Open Source

OSRCPH13frozen——4d ago
6Free LED pixel-pitch and display-size calculators (open source)OSRCHN500.0%06d ago
7talkflow

100% free, open-source, and private alternative to WisprFlow

OSRCPH1000.0%035h ago
8RoboGym

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

OSRCHN500.0%004d ago
9AI Design System Doctor

The Essential Toolkit

OSRCPH8frozen——4d ago
10OpenMCX

An open source mission critical communications stack

OSRCHN30—004d ago
11ABYSM

A pixel-art dive to the Challenger Deep, now open source

OSRCPH40—035h ago
12Expose

Self-hosted ngrok alternative in Go

OSRCHN30—005d ago
13Chai UI

AI-native, open source design system

OSRCPH3frozen——3d ago
14Cwist; a hobby-grade C17 web framework that keeps your app simpleOSRCHN2+2IPO—212h ago
15UGCdrop - Text Hook Library

Hooks that already went viral, ready to reuse

OSRCPH2+2IPO—111h ago
16Reelbird, an open-source Loom and Screen Studio alternative for macOSOSRCHN20—0025h ago
17MyMacCleaner

A Open source version of Mac Cleaner

OSRCPH2+2IPO—111h ago
18Alternative to Cube and MetricFlowOSRCHN20—005d ago
19Antaeus

Open-source semantic policy engine with testable decisions

OSRCPH20—035h ago
20Terra

Restore Wasteland – Looking for Feedbacks – Soon Open Source

OSRCHN10—0024h ago
21Screenframe3D - The free mockup library

Your app, on a real device. 100% free.

OSRCPH2frozen——2d ago
22GPT-2 124M trained from scratch

2.48B tokens, 2.8h on 4 A40s

OSRCHN10—002d ago
23OpenClean

Free, open-source Mac cleaner you can read and undo

OSRCPH2frozen——3d ago
24GovTech Index, the state of government open sourceOSRCHN10—002d ago
25GuiaFlow

Build interactive product tours, free and open source

OSRCPH2frozen——3d ago
26A minimalistic building blocks style C++ coroutine libraryOSRCHN10—002d ago
27WaterSheep

The open-source alternative to Jev

OSRCPH2frozen——4d ago
28eqMini

Open-source macOS equalizer with per-app controls

OSRCHN10—0043h ago
29EffectCraft Guide

An independent guide to the open-source AE alternative

OSRCPH2frozen——4d ago
30CueLight

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

OSRCHN10—003d ago
31Babel Life

Possible lives hidden in Borges' Library of Babel

OSRCPH2frozen——4d ago
32Bokal

Open-source cookie editor without the "tabs" permission

OSRCHN10—002d ago
33Cuedex: AI Prompt Library

Spark extraordinary results from any AI.

OSRCPH2frozen——5d ago
34I tried SERPSpur as an alternative to semrushOSRCHN1frozen——02d ago
35MineForm

Alternative to Google Forms

OSRCPH1+1IPO—111h ago
36Multi persona library to eradicate Spec HallucinationOSRCHN10—002d ago
37Laravel Support Portal Starter Kit

Stop rebuilding support portals from scratch

OSRCPH1+1IPO—111h ago
38Pluto

open-source second-brain for work

OSRCHN10—004d ago
39Logoshots

Free 65k+ Icon Library, Customize colors, background online.

OSRCPH10—035h ago
40Podway

your self-hosted apps, run by an AI admin

OSRCHN10—004d ago
41Tillora

Self-hosted multi-tenant POS & inventory SaaS on Laravel

OSRCPH10—035h ago
42Keepjson

Open-source jsonbin.io alternative on Cloudflare Workers

OSRCHN10—004d ago
43Raging Page

Free, open-source screenwriting app in your browser

OSRCPH10—035h ago
44RME

open-source Android scanner with no INTERNET permission

OSRCHN10—005d ago
45Simplify Calculator

A library of simplifications

OSRCPH1frozen——2d ago
46Open-Source Canva AlternativeOSRCHN10—006d ago
47Sill

Sill, any window from your Mac on iOS, free and open source

OSRCPH1frozen——2d ago
48Modelship

an open source ray backed model cluster

OSRCHN10—006d ago
49Paperwing

The free, open-source alternative to Adobe Acrobat

OSRCPH1frozen——3d ago
50DeepSeekBot

Open-source Grok Bot alternative built on DeepSeek Harness

OSRCPH1frozen——5d 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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