LAUNCH·INDEX
LNCH1,007+7.6%

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 · Product Hunt · data as of Oct 17, 2026, 7:01 AM UTC

193+46 (+31.3%)

launches · 3D Oct 14–Oct 16 vs Oct 11–Oct 13 (147)

5.5%—

hit rate · Oct 12–Oct 14 settled (10/183) vs Oct 9–Oct 11 (7/106)

— Not significant at current sample size: −1.1pp, z = -0.4 (needs |z| ≥ 2); 7/106 → 10/183.

+13.2

trending score

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

Hit rate: Weekday effect likely: Mon–Wed is compared with Fri–Sun, not the same weekdays last week (not enough history yet; expected from about Oct 21). Launch counts and hit rates swing a lot by weekday.

Launches & hit rate

Supply · launches per day
050100Oct 9: 43 launchesOct 10: 36 launchesOct 11: 27 launchesOct 12: 51 launchesOct 13: 69 launchesOct 14: 63 launchesOct 15: 75 launchesOct 16: 55 launchesOct 17: 40 launches (incomplete day)Oct 9Oct 11Oct 13Oct 15Oct 17
Demand · hit rate per day (share of settled launches with 10+ votes)
0%10%20%Oct 9: 2 of 43 settled launches hit 10+ votes (4.7%)Oct 10: 4 of 36 settled launches hit 10+ votes (11.1%)Oct 11: 1 of 27 settled launches hit 10+ votes (3.7%)Oct 12: 2 of 51 settled launches hit 10+ votes (3.9%)Oct 13: 7 of 69 settled launches hit 10+ votes (10.1%)Oct 14: 1 of 63 settled launches hit 10+ votes (1.6%)Oct 15: launches not settled yetOct 16: launches not settled yetOct 17: incomplete dayOct 9Oct 11Oct 13Oct 15Oct 17

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
55Oct 16
Avg daily launches
52.48d
7D range
27 – 75Oct 10–Oct 16
Hit rate
5.9%17/289 · Oct 9–Oct 14
Volatility
42%7 daily chg
Share of market
5.5%7D
Top source
Product Hunt100%
Previous window
147Oct 11–Oct 13

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. 380 matches; top 200 loaded. Spam giveaways excluded.

#Sector
1Base Code

Let your whole team build on your product

DEVT197frozen——5d ago
2Polylane Impact Analysis

Catch risky pull requests before they break production

DEVT116frozen——2d ago
3Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray)

GNOME 51, Rust coreutils, and a refreshed Linux desktop

DEVT98frozen——2d ago
4Kerno 1.0

The AI Runtime Backend QA Engineer

DEVT92frozen——2d ago
5AdHelm CLI

An Open Sourced CLI for Managing Ads

DEVT82frozen——4d ago
6CodeCrab

AI code reviews with deep analysis & multi-tool integrations

DEVT77frozen——2d ago
7CmdRound

Assess how engineers build with artificial intelligence

DEVT73frozen——2d ago
8DevTerminal

A macOS terminal with a Run button that knows your project

DEVT73frozen——6d ago
9Codemind

Delegate coding. Get back code that works.

DEVT71frozen——5d ago
10Sparrow

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

DEVT62+2▲ +3.3%437h ago
11FinderGit

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

DEVT61+1▲ +1.7%037h ago
12Payload Peek

Catch Webhooks. Inspect Payloads. Generate TypeScript.

DEVT61frozen——3d ago
13Helicon

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

DEVT59+1▲ +1.7%037h ago
14Email HTML Editor by Reloop

Visual editor for email HTML. Free, no signup.

DEVT14frozen——4d ago
15Formalini V2

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

DEVT11frozen——4d ago
16HVAC Load Calculator

Free Manual J calculator with real ZIP-code design temps

DEVT11frozen——4d ago
17DropText

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

DEVT11frozen——4d ago
18JevStation

Typed decisions for your code: probabilities, not prose

DEVT10frozen——4d ago
19Fraya

The design-first commerce OS for small businesses

DEVT10frozen——4d ago
20OpenSVG.dev

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

DEVT9frozen——3d ago
21Vimonto Deploy

Deploy apps to your own servers. Without the hassle.

DEVT8frozen——2d ago
22ClientSummary

Turn GitHub commits into client progress reports using AI

DEVT8frozen——4d ago
23LazySusan: AI API Management for Teams

Track developer API usage and spending in one dashboard.

DEVT8frozen——4d ago
24resolve()

The entity API that knows when not to answer

DEVT7frozen——2d ago
25SkillFoundry

Your best engineer couldn't pass your own interview

DEVT6frozen——5d ago
26Meeba Brain

AI code debugging with evidence, not guesses

DEVT5frozen——3d ago
27jitllm

An operating system for LLM inference

DEVT4frozen——5d ago
28ShapingQR

Free Dynamic QR code generator

DEVT4frozen——6d ago
29Headless Profeed

Build custom LinkedIn feeds with AI and a JSON API.

DEVT4frozen——2d ago
30Meritual

The engineering resume is dead. Proof over promises.

DEVT4frozen——2d ago
31Crocotaste

AI design reviews on your pull requests

DEVT40—037h ago
32OpenToken Monitor

Every AI coding quota, in your menu bar

DEVT40—037h ago
33ARLO OS - Your AI-Powered Desktop

A smarter Windows desktop, powered by AI

DEVT40—037h ago
34DevFeed

Your developer news, feeds, and reading list in one new tab

DEVT4frozen——2d ago
35VM Explorer

Lightweight self-hosted web control plane for Linux VMs

DEVT4frozen——3d ago
36Lumovi

A calm, fast Kubernetes dashboard for you, your team and AI

DEVT3+3IPO—113h ago
37Barkme

Uptime monitoring for websites, applications and APIs

DEVT3+3IPO—113h ago
38HextaUI Pro

The hard states of AI product UI, handled, for shadcn/ui

DEVT3+3IPO—113h ago
39TF Diagrams

⚡ Turn your Terraform code into cloud diagrams in seconds!

DEVT30—037h ago
40Hindsight Data

Market Hindsight is 20/20. Now it's an API.

DEVT30—037h ago
41logstation

Prod logs access for your devs without prod server access.

DEVT30—037h ago
42DevT Pro

120+ offline dev tools, now on Linux and Raycast

DEVT3frozen——2d ago
43Fuzio

Embed Chromium into your Java and Kotlin desktop apps

DEVT3frozen——2d ago
44AI Council

An AI product team in your repo, from idea to merged PR

DEVT3frozen——2d ago
45Chromatic Gallery

Modern React gallery with chromatic sorting magic

DEVT3frozen——2d ago
46Kafui

Browse, manage and debug Kafka from your desktop

DEVT3frozen——3d ago
47Process CI

Github for company decisions

DEVT3frozen——3d ago
48NovaForge

Build, deploy & monetize an AI SaaS in 60 seconds

DEVT3frozen——4d ago
49APX Terminal 7.2

One app where AI teammates do your work, across your tools

DEVT3frozen——5d ago
50FormFlow

Form backend that keeps the leads your form refused

DEVT3frozen——5d 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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