Developer Tools (DEVT)
Sector · Show HN · data as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC
launches · 7D Oct 10–Oct 16
— 7D launch change needs 14 complete days; 13 available (Oct 4–Oct 16). Expected from about Oct 18.
hit rate · Oct 8–Oct 14 settled (18/158)
— 7D hit-rate change (settled days only) needs 14 complete days; 11 available (Oct 4–Oct 14). Expected from about Oct 20.
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
- 14Oct 16
- Avg daily launches
- 22.713d
- 7D range
- 8 – 31Oct 10–Oct 16
- Hit rate
- 11.4%18/158 · Oct 8–Oct 14
- Volatility
- 59%12 daily chg
- Share of market
- 16.1%7D
- Top source
- Show HN100%
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Stocks in this sector (DEVT)
Biggest vote gain between the two latest ingest runs (Oct 17, 02:39 UTC → Oct 17, 13:13 UTC, 10.6h). Launches listed since the earlier run (IPOs) are left out — their “gain” would just be first-day votes — and appear in New Listings instead. 7 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Things to Do API | DEVT | 6 | +2 | — | 1 | 21h ago | |
| 2 | Proa A Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering | DEVT | 105 | +1 | ▲ +1.0% | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 3 | My Terminal Themes Web App | DEVT | 43 | +1 | ▲ +2.4% | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 4 | Building an LLM from Scratch in TypeScript | DEVT | 33 | +1 | ▲ +3.1% | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 5 | Gvmux A native macOS terminal with vertical tabs, built on libghostty | DEVT | 7 | +1 | ▲ +16.7% | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 6 | Turbo Lisp A Common Lisp IDE for macOS and the Terminal | DEVT | 4 | +1 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 7 | Optimistic echo for zero-latency SSH typing | DEVT | 2 | +1 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d 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