LAUNCH·INDEX

Business Ops & SMB Software (BOPS)

Sector · Show HN · data as of Oct 31, 2026, 3:03 PM UTC

5−3 (−37.5%)

launches · 7D Oct 24–Oct 30 vs Oct 17–Oct 23 (8)

0.0%—

hit rate · Oct 22–Oct 28 settled (0/2) vs Oct 15–Oct 21 (1/10)

— Not significant at current sample size: −10.0pp, 10 → 2 settled launches (needs 100+ in each window).

−13.1

trending score

Launches & hit rate

Supply · launches per day
035Oct 17: 2 launchesOct 18: 1 launchesOct 19: 0 launchesOct 20: 3 launchesOct 21: 2 launchesOct 22: 0 launchesOct 23: 0 launchesOct 24: 0 launchesOct 25: 0 launchesOct 26: 1 launchesOct 27: 1 launchesOct 28: 0 launchesOct 29: 2 launchesOct 30: 1 launchesOct 31: 1 launches (incomplete day)Oct 17Oct 19Oct 21Oct 23Oct 25Oct 27Oct 29Oct 31
Demand · hit rate per day (share of settled launches with 10+ votes)
0%25%50%Oct 17: 0 of 2 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 18: 0 of 1 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 19: no launchesOct 20: 1 of 3 settled launches hit 10+ votes (33.3%)Oct 21: 0 of 2 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 22: no launchesOct 23: no launchesOct 24: no launchesOct 25: no launchesOct 26: 0 of 1 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 27: 0 of 1 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 28: no launchesOct 29: launches not settled yetOct 30: launches not settled yetOct 31: incomplete dayOct 17Oct 19Oct 21Oct 23Oct 25Oct 27Oct 29Oct 31

9 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
1Oct 30
Avg daily launches
1.027d
7D range
0 – 2Oct 24–Oct 30
Hit rate
0.0%0/2 · Oct 22–Oct 28
Volatility
87%15 daily chg
Share of market
0.5%7D
Top source
Show HN100%
Previous window
8Oct 17–Oct 23

Stocks in this sector (BOPS)

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. 6 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.

#Sector
1I don't understand why invoicing apps cost $10/monthBOPS3+1—003d ago
2ROAL

AI phone host for restaurants that builds itself from your site

BOPS30—004d ago
3No moat

Software is dead. Nobody told these companies

BOPS2+2IPO—002d ago
4SpaceX's first decade, rebuilt from its own company updatesBOPS20—004d ago
5Crulon

Business phone where AI does the work, humans make the calls

BOPS20—006d ago
6Building the European Company Graph one website at a timeBOPS10—007d 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