Developer Tools (DEVT)
Sector · Show HN · data as of Oct 31, 2026, 3:03 PM UTC
launches · 7D Oct 24–Oct 30 vs Oct 17–Oct 23 (160)
hit rate · Oct 22–Oct 28 settled (8/157) vs Oct 15–Oct 21 (11/162)
— Not significant at current sample size: −1.7pp, z = -0.6 (needs |z| ≥ 2); 11/162 → 8/157.
trending score
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
- 19Oct 30
- Avg daily launches
- 22.427d
- 7D range
- 14 – 32Oct 24–Oct 30
- Hit rate
- 5.1%8/157 · Oct 22–Oct 28
- Volatility
- 46%26 daily chg
- Share of market
- 15.0%7D
- Top source
- Show HN100%
- Previous window
- 160Oct 17–Oct 23
Stocks in this sector (DEVT)
Launched on Oct 30 (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. 27 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Automatic deduction of FlashAttention kernel from ~25 lines of SQL | DEVT | 25 | +25IPO | — | 1 | 1 | 2d ago |
| 2 | What research is your code standing on? | DEVT | 6 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 1 | 3d ago |
| 3 | Rust based window switcher for macOS | DEVT | 5 | +5IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 4 | Prompt A New, Beautiful Terminal | DEVT | 4 | +4IPO | — | 1 | 1 | 3d ago |
| 5 | A Kotlin compiler written in Go, 10x faster than kotlinc | DEVT | 3 | +3IPO | — | 2 | 2 | 2d ago |
| 6 | Bot_board A message board for code harnesses collaboration | DEVT | 3 | +3IPO | — | 1 | 1 | 3d ago |
| 7 | Slotwatch watch Postgres replication slots from the terminal | DEVT | 3 | +3IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 8 | I rebuilt my about page with stats from GitHub, WakaTime and Goodreads | DEVT | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 9 | Ghostman A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client and webhook inspector | DEVT | 3 | +2 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 10 | Hashsync Deduplicate SSH streams against the receiver's files | DEVT | 2 | +2IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 11 | ZyVOP Git Push to Publish on Dev.to, Hashnode, Medium and WordPress | DEVT | 2 | +1 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 12 | zpq 0.5.0 A zero-dependency Parquet engine in Zig | DEVT | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 13 | Turn any GitHub account into a living city | DEVT | 1 | +1IPO | — | 2 | 2 | 2d ago |
| 14 | Python 3 port of Umbra, an unfinished Lovecraftian CRPG from 2001 | DEVT | 1 | +1IPO | — | 1 | 1 | 2d ago |
| 15 | Shell-pet a hermit crab for your README that reacts to repo activity | DEVT | 1 | +1IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 16 | I Vibe Coded Orkut.com | DEVT | 1 | +1IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 17 | ViBrow A custom browser engine in pure Python for Raspberry Pi Zero | DEVT | 1 | +1IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 18 | Ramekin IoT development, deployment and update platform via Apptainer | DEVT | 1 | +1IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 19 | Undertone synced lyrics and beat visualizer on Linux's desktop layer | DEVT | 1 | +1IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 20 | L4H seL4-based hypervisor for Linux VMs | DEVT | 1 | +1IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 21 | KerfScript Programming Language for Laser Cutting | DEVT | 1 | +1IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 22 | JSON to printable invoice CLI, zero deps, no sign-up | DEVT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 23 | DockShift In-Browser Docker Run, Compose, and K8s Converter | DEVT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 24 | LeanCIL Prove properties of compiled .NET code in Lean 4 | DEVT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 25 | JoinJSON Merge, diff and convert JSON files in the browser | DEVT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 26 | Ocel Deploy apps to your AWS,GCP or VPS with infra from code | DEVT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 27 | Xazz a Rust DSL that catches pipeline bugs before they run | DEVT | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d 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