Business Ops & SMB Software (BOPS)
Sector · Show HN · data as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC
launches · 3D Oct 14–Oct 16 vs Oct 7–Oct 9 (same weekday) (1)
hit rate · Oct 12–Oct 14 settled (1/6) vs Oct 5–Oct 7 (0/3)
— Not significant at current sample size: +16.7pp, 3 → 6 settled launches (needs 100+ in each window).
trending score
Launches & hit rate
8 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
- 2Oct 16
- Avg daily launches
- 1.213d
- 7D range
- 0 – 3Oct 10–Oct 16
- Hit rate
- 12.5%1/8 · Oct 8–Oct 14
- Volatility
- 123%7 daily chg
- Share of market
- 0.9%7D
- Top source
- Show HN100%
- Previous window
- 1Oct 7–Oct 9
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. 9 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every open government tender in the world (Over 250k) | BOPS | 11 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 2 | I'm a 14-year-old building my first startup, Titan | BOPS | 8 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 6d ago | |
| 3 | OpenRegistry live company filings directly from 80 gov registries | BOPS | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 34h ago | |
| 4 | Organ Autonomous AI executives that build and operate businesses | BOPS | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 5 | Can a solo founder compete in the crowded Chrome extension market? | BOPS | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 6 | CiteProof Catch fake AI legal citations | BOPS | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 40h ago |
| 7 | KettleHour free, no-signup rate and invoice tools for freelancers | BOPS | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 8 | PrivacyFixed which companies a site contacts before cookie consent | BOPS | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 9 | I ran the same founder dilemma through ChatGPT, Claude, and BAAB AI | BOPS | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d 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