AI Tools & LLM Apps (AITL)
Sector · Show HN + Product Hunt · data as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC
launches · 3D Oct 14–Oct 16 vs Oct 11–Oct 13 (188)
hit rate · Oct 12–Oct 14 settled (19/224) vs Oct 9–Oct 11 (10/150)
— Not significant at current sample size: +1.8pp, z = 0.6 (needs |z| ≥ 2); 10/150 → 19/224.
trending score
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.
Launches & hit rate
3 days left blank: votes still coming in (launches under 48h old), incomplete day, or no launches — not shown as zero.
Faded bars are incomplete days (today, or days before every selected source was being collected).
Key statistics
- Launches
- 43Oct 16
- Avg daily launches
- 62.58d
- 7D range
- 43 – 90Oct 10–Oct 16
- Hit rate
- 7.8%29/374 · Oct 9–Oct 14
- Volatility
- 36%7 daily chg
- Share of market
- 5.8%7D
- Top source
- Product Hunt88%
- Previous window
- 188Oct 11–Oct 13
Stocks in this sector (AITL)
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. 439 matches; top 200 loaded. 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 | Google EmbeddingGemma 2 An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model | AITL | PH | 297 | frozen | — | — | 5d ago | |
| 2 | Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft | AITL | HN | 228 | +42 | ▲ +22.6% | 15 | 29h ago | |
| 3 | Ghost Core A personal AI computer that runs entirely on-device | AITL | PH | 177 | frozen | — | — | 6d ago | |
| 4 | Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks | AITL | HN | 174 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 5 | I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change | AITL | HN | 118 | +1 | ▲ +0.9% | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 6 | Microsoft Maia 300 Microsoft’s own AI chip, headed to multi-gigawatts | AITL | PH | 93 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 7 | HarnessHive AI-Native, Simple & Collaborative Wire Harness Design | AITL | PH | 91 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 8 | Mira, AI Walking Tours | AITL | HN | 16 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 6d ago | |
| 9 | Actually Asked A self-improving branded AI FAQ page | AITL | PH | 85 | frozen | — | — | 2d ago | |
| 10 | Can AI read your mind? | AITL | HN | 6 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 11 | Mira Tours AI Walking Tour Guide | AITL | PH | 83 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 12 | How to Use LLMs | AITL | HN | 6 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 13 | FloorGen Draw the house, or just ask. Free floor plans with AI | AITL | PH | 76 | frozen | — | — | 6d ago | |
| 14 | AI Hub Open Access Lesson Plans for Teaching Students about AI | AITL | HN | 6 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 15 | Audimate AI assistant that works right in the apps you already use | AITL | PH | 72 | frozen | — | — | 2d ago | |
| 16 | botsay cowsay for the AI Era | AITL | HN | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 17 | Apple HomePod mini 2 Apple's tiny smart speaker, now built for Siri AI | AITL | PH | 72 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 18 | Hardwired turn JS into a neural net | AITL | HN | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 19 | Pickle Sensei AI pickleball coach for solo practice, one swing at a time | AITL | PH | 64 | frozen | — | — | 6d ago | |
| 20 | RL environment for complex ML Development | AITL | HN | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 21 | Screenwell.ai An AI interviewer that runs your first-round screening | AITL | PH | 63 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 22 | An Atlas of Applied AI | AITL | HN | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 5d ago | |
| 23 | FamRelay Share facts between AI assistants — only what you approve | AITL | PH | 61 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 24 | Try Free Long-Term Memory for AI 50M-Token Window | AITL | HN | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 6d ago | |
| 25 | WPMaven Create and run your business with AI | AITL | PH | 22 | frozen | — | — | 5d ago | |
| 26 | SuperLocalMemory" AI brain that never bluffs Laya, Jev, Google Gemma | AITL | HN | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 27 | Accelerator AI by Lovie.co Answer once. Apply to 40 accelerators on your Mac. | AITL | PH | 20 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 28 | Fuel Gauge Claude knows its own usage limits and stops at 95% | AITL | HN | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 29 | AIComics Turn any story into a comic with AI | AITL | PH | 12 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 30 | MEF LLM Studio Learn how LLMs generate text, token by token | AITL | HN | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 31 | rag_control Runtime governance and policy controls for RAG systems | AITL | PH | 12 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 32 | Cr34te.it a website anyone can rewrite one turn at a time with AI | AITL | HN | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 31h ago | |
| 33 | Kivi UI Build UIs with components, blocks, shaders & AI tools. | AITL | PH | 12 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 34 | What are vector embeddings? An interactive guide | AITL | HN | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 35 | Cadabra AI Turn one sentence into an edited AI film | AITL | PH | 11 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 36 | Boole-1.7B, a 1-bit LLM that outperforms Bonsai-1.7B | AITL | HN | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 5d ago | |
| 37 | Planitude AI builds your Gantt and flags deadline risks | AITL | PH | 11 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 38 | I wrote Dependency Hell 5 years ago. Today I updated it for AI Era [pdf] | AITL | HN | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 6d ago | |
| 39 | Swiftly Turn ideas and footage into publish-ready videos with AI | AITL | PH | 11 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 40 | Run AI-generated logic safely inside your app | AITL | HN | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 41 | Mopus Reframe videos with AI, free and private in your browser | AITL | PH | 11 | frozen | — | — | 2d ago | |
| 42 | Bifrost High-performance AI gateway | AITL | HN | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 43 | SiliconDevKit Build native Mac apps with AI | AITL | PH | 10 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 44 | Asked LLM to show the most stereotypical man/woman for each country | AITL | HN | 2 | 0 | — | 1 | 46h ago | |
| 45 | Artly Personalized Art, powered by AI | AITL | PH | 10 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 46 | Guess the LLM read an answer and guess which model wrote it | AITL | HN | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 46h ago | |
| 47 | Arthneeti AI that reads worldwide earnings calls so you don't have to | AITL | PH | 9 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 48 | Faster, Cheaper Databricks Spark with Real-Time ML Config Management | AITL | HN | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 49 | ByteCalculators 2.0 Audit your AI costs & SaaS runway before it's too late | AITL | PH | 9 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 50 | Which Mac runs which LLM, and how fast | AITL | HN | 2 | +2IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 8h 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