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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 7–Oct 9 (same 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. 24 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sygal Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally | WRIT | 45 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 2 | Fakeipedia Wikipedia for worlds that don't exist | WRIT | 29 | +27 | — | 19 | 19h ago | |
| 3 | News.txt world news by region, from each region's own outlets | WRIT | 6 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 4 | HarmoNova A modern, customizable Hacker News reader for Chrome | WRIT | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 6d ago | |
| 5 | Hooked Swipe through the first lines of classic books Tinder-style | WRIT | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 6 | ƜackDown Win64 Native Markdown Viewer | WRIT | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 46h ago |
| 7 | The Sentence, where you change one word and start a chain reaction | WRIT | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 7d ago | |
| 8 | Biblio Times, your RSS feeds, typeset as a morning newspaper (Mac/iOS) | WRIT | 3 | +3IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 11h ago |
| 9 | Turn newsletters and blogs into a podcast feed | WRIT | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 10 | Phrack.org RSS Feed | WRIT | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 11 | Markdown to Doc in a Click | WRIT | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 12 | Cenntre a creator-first platform for publishing and monetization | WRIT | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 13 | Rad PDFs Hacker News for PDFs Only | WRIT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 43h ago | |
| 14 | Daily HN 'Front Page' and 'Show HN' RSS Feeds | WRIT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 15 | Content-adaptive display brightness for macOS with DDC/CI support | WRIT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 16 | Ferry RSS reader that ranks stories by how many outlets cover them | WRIT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 17 | Sonder, A free, open-source native Markdown editor for Mac | WRIT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 18 | We tested how 5 LLMs handle failed write actions (duplicate prevention) | WRIT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 19 | Free, interactive digital logic content | WRIT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 20 | Write once. Explain well. Publish on the web and on paper | WRIT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 6d ago |
| 21 | Samemark, a remark-parse compatible Markdown parser that is 10x faster | WRIT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 22 | Cohesive one button for when your thumb opens the feed on its own | WRIT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 23 | Authrot extract your story elements out of chapters and graph them | WRIT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 24 | Refused the page text does not describe LeadGrade | WRIT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 7d 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