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)
Launched on Oct 16 (the latest complete UTC day) or listed since the previous run (IPO), ranked by current traction. Product Hunt launches all list at 07:01 UTC; their traction has had at most one or two daily updates. 2 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenRegistry live company filings directly from 80 gov registries | BOPS | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 33h ago | |
| 2 | CiteProof Catch fake AI legal citations | BOPS | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 40h 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