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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 % gain over the latest interval (Oct 17, 02:39 UTC → Oct 17, 13:13 UTC, 10.6h), among products whose previous traction was 5+ (below that, 2 → 6 votes would read as +200%). 5 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 | Tesla Roadster The hypercar that flies | MISC | PH | 244 | +25 | ▲ +11.4% | 1 | 35h ago | |
| 2 | Flipflop Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing | MISC | HN | 140 | +5 | ▲ +3.7% | 4 | 2d ago | |
| 3 | Muse Spark Open The most capable US open weights model to date | MISC | PH | 84 | +7 | ▲ +9.1% | 1 | 35h ago | |
| 4 | WallHop 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement | MISC | HN | 287 | +1 | ▲ +0.3% | 0 | 6d ago | |
| 5 | Unfenced Land for sale that borders public land | MISC | HN | 311 | +1 | ▲ +0.3% | 3 | 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