Developer Tools (DEVT)
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) (79)
hit rate · Oct 12–Oct 14 settled (11/83) vs Oct 5–Oct 7 (2/77)
— Not significant at current sample size: +10.7pp, 77 → 83 settled launches (needs 100+ in each window).
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%
- Previous window
- 79Oct 7–Oct 9
Stocks in this sector (DEVT)
Biggest % gain over the latest interval (Oct 17, 02:39 UTC → Oct 17, 13:13 UTC, 10.6h), among products whose previous traction was 5+ (below that, 2 → 6 votes would read as +200%). 4 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gvmux A native macOS terminal with vertical tabs, built on libghostty | DEVT | 7 | +1 | ▲ +16.7% | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 2 | Building an LLM from Scratch in TypeScript | DEVT | 33 | +1 | ▲ +3.1% | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 3 | My Terminal Themes Web App | DEVT | 43 | +1 | ▲ +2.4% | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 4 | Proa A Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering | DEVT | 105 | +1 | ▲ +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