LAUNCH·INDEX
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Experimental: traction = early-adopter votes (PH) / points (HN), not downloads or usage; updated about once a day and frozen ~31–36h after launch on Product Hunt (7 days on Show HN); sectors come from keyword rules (~70–75% accurate); data starts Oct 3 (HN) / Oct 9 (PH). “—” means not enough data; nothing is estimated. How it works

Developer Tools (DEVT)

Sector · Show HN + Product Hunt · data as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC

69+15 (+27.8%)

launches · 1D Oct 16 vs Oct 9 (same weekday) (54)

6.7%—

hit rate · Oct 14 settled (6/89) vs Oct 13 (12/100)

— Not significant at current sample size: −5.3pp, 100 → 89 settled launches (needs 100+ in each window).

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trending score

Hit rate: Weekday effect likely: Wed is compared with Tue, not the same weekday last week (not enough history yet; expected from about Oct 19). Launch counts and hit rates swing a lot by weekday.

Launches & hit rate

Supply · launches per day
0100200Oct 3: 12 launches (incomplete day)Oct 4: 15 launches (incomplete day)Oct 5: 21 launches (incomplete day)Oct 6: 23 launches (incomplete day)Oct 7: 33 launches (incomplete day)Oct 8: 35 launches (incomplete day)Oct 9: 54 launchesOct 10: 44 launchesOct 11: 48 launchesOct 12: 77 launchesOct 13: 100 launchesOct 14: 89 launchesOct 15: 106 launchesOct 16: 69 launchesOct 17: 48 launches (incomplete day)Oct 3Oct 5Oct 7Oct 9Oct 11Oct 13Oct 15Oct 17
Demand · hit rate per day (share of settled launches with 10+ votes)
0%10%20%Oct 3: incomplete dayOct 4: incomplete dayOct 5: incomplete dayOct 6: incomplete dayOct 7: incomplete dayOct 8: incomplete dayOct 9: 3 of 54 settled launches hit 10+ votes (5.6%)Oct 10: 5 of 44 settled launches hit 10+ votes (11.4%)Oct 11: 1 of 48 settled launches hit 10+ votes (2.1%)Oct 12: 3 of 77 settled launches hit 10+ votes (3.9%)Oct 13: 12 of 100 settled launches hit 10+ votes (12.0%)Oct 14: 6 of 89 settled launches hit 10+ votes (6.7%)Oct 15: launches not settled yetOct 16: launches not settled yetOct 17: incomplete dayOct 3Oct 5Oct 7Oct 9Oct 11Oct 13Oct 15Oct 17

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
69Oct 16
Avg daily launches
73.48d
7D range
44 – 106Oct 10–Oct 16
Hit rate
7.3%30/412 · Oct 9–Oct 14
Volatility
32%7 daily chg
Share of market
6.9%7D
Top source
Product Hunt71%
Previous window
54Oct 9

Stocks in this sector (DEVT)

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. 542 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.

#SectorSrc
1Base Code

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DEVTPH197frozen——5d ago
2Proa

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DEVTHN105+1▲ +1.0%02d ago
3Polylane Impact Analysis

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DEVTPH116frozen——2d ago
4Spotatui, a Spotify TUI/GUI without web API rate limitsDEVTHN9100.0%04d ago
5Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray)

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DEVTPH98frozen——2d ago
6A guided 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum, built in codeDEVTHN9000.0%03d ago
7Kerno 1.0

The AI Runtime Backend QA Engineer

DEVTPH92frozen——2d ago
8Parsimony

an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add

DEVTHN7700.0%14d ago
9AdHelm CLI

An Open Sourced CLI for Managing Ads

DEVTPH82frozen——4d ago
10Ito

Build Terminal UIs in Lua

DEVTHN7400.0%02d ago
11CodeCrab

AI code reviews with deep analysis & multi-tool integrations

DEVTPH77frozen——2d ago
12My Terminal Themes Web AppDEVTHN43+1▲ +2.4%02d ago
13CmdRound

Assess how engineers build with artificial intelligence

DEVTPH73frozen——2d ago
14Building an LLM from Scratch in TypeScriptDEVTHN33+1▲ +3.1%03d ago
15DevTerminal

A macOS terminal with a Run button that knows your project

DEVTPH73frozen——6d ago
16Deslop

Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript

DEVTHN3200.0%04d ago
17Codemind

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DEVTPH71frozen——5d ago
18Sayso, free open source dictation for Mac, Windows, and LinuxDEVTHN2500.0%04d ago
19Sparrow

Self-hosted webhook delivery. One binary, just Postgres.

DEVTPH62+2▲ +3.3%437h ago
20Mosh-rs, Mosh rewritten in Rust with scrollback and Windows supportDEVTHN2000.0%03d ago
21FinderGit

Every Git repo on your Mac: browse, commit, review, clean

DEVTPH61+1▲ +1.7%037h ago
22I rewrote my website in SwiftDEVTHN1700.0%005d ago
23Payload Peek

Catch Webhooks. Inspect Payloads. Generate TypeScript.

DEVTPH61frozen——3d ago
24The first short movie built using code and AIDEVTHN1400.0%03d ago
25Helicon

Open-source desktop app and VS Code panel for Muse Code

DEVTPH59+1▲ +1.7%037h ago
26Knitting

A shared-memory concurrency runtime for Node.js,Bun,and Deno

DEVTHN1200.0%04d ago
27Email HTML Editor by Reloop

Visual editor for email HTML. Free, no signup.

DEVTPH14frozen——4d ago
28ManimGX

Manim's API on a Rust/wgpu engine, for 3D videos in Python

DEVTHN1000.0%06d ago
29Formalini V2

Developer Tools. Business. Document to Data. Earn with Us

DEVTPH11frozen——4d ago
30Preloop

GitHub Actions locally in microvms and SSH/pause failures

DEVTHN900.0%05d ago
31HVAC Load Calculator

Free Manual J calculator with real ZIP-code design temps

DEVTPH11frozen——4d ago
32Doiter

Language where pointers and stack frames are Docker containers

DEVTHN800.0%05d ago
33DropText

Share text or code with a link. Pro free until 2027

DEVTPH11frozen——4d ago
34Gvmux

A native macOS terminal with vertical tabs, built on libghostty

DEVTHN7+1▲ +16.7%04d ago
35JevStation

Typed decisions for your code: probabilities, not prose

DEVTPH10frozen——4d ago
36Things to Do APIDEVTHN6+2—120h ago
37Fraya

The design-first commerce OS for small businesses

DEVTPH10frozen——4d ago
38Geneva, a Rust FFmpeg CLI alternative with HTML/CSS graphicsDEVTHN600.0%003d ago
39OpenSVG.dev

321k+ Free SVG Icons, Ready for Designers & Developers.

DEVTPH9frozen——3d ago
40Self Hosted System One Decision API for ImagesDEVTHN600.0%006d ago
41Vimonto Deploy

Deploy apps to your own servers. Without the hassle.

DEVTPH8frozen——2d ago
42Gitsu.app

A Linear-alternative built on GitHub Projects

DEVTHN500.0%038h ago
43ClientSummary

Turn GitHub commits into client progress reports using AI

DEVTPH8frozen——4d ago
44Videre

a Rust CLI to manage your photos and videos with joy

DEVTHN500.0%031h ago
45LazySusan: AI API Management for Teams

Track developer API usage and spending in one dashboard.

DEVTPH8frozen——4d ago
46Code Like It's 198xDEVTHN500.0%03d ago
47resolve()

The entity API that knows when not to answer

DEVTPH7frozen——2d ago
48Right-click any log line to see its call stack in VS CodeDEVTHN5+5IPO—008h ago
49SkillFoundry

Your best engineer couldn't pass your own interview

DEVTPH6frozen——5d ago
50An unofficial download picker for the ArtCraft Rust appsDEVTHN500.0%006d 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

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