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. 78 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.

#Sector
1BraiNOTES, handwritten notes on your lecture PDFs in a browser tabPROD3500.0%05d ago
2I got tired of btop not seeing my Mac's chip, so I built siltopPROD15+15IPO—2112h ago
33D Studio in the BrowserPROD700.0%003d ago
4ISA Workbench

Classify and explore binaries in the browser

PROD600.0%006d ago
5Kindlefall a 3D ARPG in the browser, built with Three.jsPROD500.0%06d ago
6Use your phone as a Windows mouse and keyboard, without a phone appPROD500.0%05d ago
7Tinywm

a scrolling window manager for macOS, inspired by Niri

PROD500.0%0024h ago
8Donut Browser, the most private anti-detect browserPROD4+1—023h ago
9WriteNative

correct, natural English in any Mac app

PROD40—05d ago
10RemoveMacAI 1.0, a Mac app to turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27PROD40—06d ago
11Sill for Android

control your Mac's windows from an Android phone

PROD40—024h ago
12Scriber-Pro 2.0, a Mac app that transcribes m3u8 streams from web pagesPROD40—029h ago
13Textfold

a native Mac text expander with plain text snippets

PROD40—02d ago
14Aside

Mac app that suggests what to say next during calls

PROD40—003d ago
15Cachety

Watermark ID documents in the browser, nothing is uploaded

PROD40—005d ago
16Clotr, a browser extension that warns you before you send PIIPROD30—05d ago
17Putaway

sorts your Mac's Downloads into the folders you have

PROD30—0024h ago
18Lisorto

Tidy your Mac's Downloads on-device, see every move first

PROD30—0031h ago
19A purely in-browser harness

let SaaS users act with natural language

PROD30—003d ago
20Mnemify

3D terrain map merging Confluence, Notion, Obsidian

PROD30—003d ago
21Lowlight

Dim your MacBook keyboard backlight below the macOS minimum

PROD30—004d ago
22Dewey

a connectome-driven fruit fly for your macOS menu bar

PROD30—006d ago
23Listener

100% on-device meeting notes for Mac ($5 once, no cloud)

PROD20—06d ago
24Pomoflow

a 1-bit Pomodoro with a todo list that syncs without sign-up

PROD20—021h ago
25Kitaphone

Call mobile phones and landlines directly from the browser

PROD20—039h ago
26Kindlefall

a full-fledged 3D ARPG in the browser, built with Three.js

PROD20—04d ago
27I built a free collection of browser-based 3D toolsPROD2+2IPO—0012h ago
28Continuous Trunk Builds of Network Ups Tools (Nut) for Fedora/ELPROD20—0038h ago
29Pdf2epub

free PDF to ePub converter with real chapters

PROD20—0030h ago
30LifeStats

summers left, years asleep, Big Mac price when you were born

PROD20—0029h ago
31The first open-weight model for general deterministic taskPROD20—004d ago
32Ins Autopilot

a local-first Instagram workflow extension

PROD20—003d ago
33Run macOS on FreeBSD's Bhyve on AMDPROD20—003d ago
34Planning software for startup teamsPROD20—004d ago
35Magic Tools Hub

112 PDF tools that run in the browser

PROD20—004d ago
36Glossdex

semantic search that returns nothing when nothing matches

PROD20—004d ago
37Virtual machines that live in your menu bar [macOS 27]PROD20—004d ago
38Jruva

AI workspace for chat, documents and images

PROD20—005d ago
39A calendar of every Chinese holiday your supplier will cite as a delayPROD20—005d ago
40A tool to visualize and quantify the butterfly effectPROD20—005d ago
41anygrep

semantic search over notes, PDFs and images, on the CPU

PROD20—005d ago
42Wesnoth wouldn't run on my phone -- I rebuilt the combat in the browserPROD20—006d ago
43FileoPDF, PDF tools that process your files in the browserPROD20—006d ago
44Reduce sensetive info before a screenshotPROD10—04d ago
45Google, Outlook and iCloud in one superpowered calendarPROD10—03d ago
46A Mac app to focus on your actions instead of distractionsPROD10—06d ago
47Byakugan Scan

fast macOS OCR by keeping screen capture in memory

PROD10—045h ago
48macOS windows-like window maximizePROD10—03d ago
49Instancez

Supabase-compatible back end in one container and YAML file

PROD10—03d ago
50Shazbot

A sandboxed SSH tunnel manager for the Mac menu bar

PROD10—02d 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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