Hardware & IoT (HDWR)
Sector · Show HN + Product Hunt · data as of Oct 31, 2026, 3:03 PM UTC
launches · 7D Oct 24–Oct 30 vs Oct 17–Oct 23 (120)
hit rate · Oct 22–Oct 28 settled (6/126) vs Oct 15–Oct 21 (6/131)
— Not significant at current sample size: +0.2pp, z = 0.1 (needs |z| ≥ 2); 6/131 → 6/126.
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
- 23Oct 30
- Avg daily launches
- 17.122d
- 7D range
- 11 – 30Oct 24–Oct 30
- Hit rate
- 4.8%6/126 · Oct 22–Oct 28
- Volatility
- 56%21 daily chg
- Share of market
- 1.6%7D
- Top source
- Product Hunt83%
- Previous window
- 120Oct 17–Oct 23
Stocks in this sector (HDWR)
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. 131 matches. 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.
| # | Sector | Src | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LFM3 by Liquid AI Six 2B-class models for phones, laptops and robots | HDWR | PH | 135 | frozen | — | — | 8 | 5d ago |
| 2 | Marelleo, an open-source story box I built for my kids using ESP32 | HDWR | HN | 126 | +123 | — | 35 | 36 | 6d ago |
| 3 | Confetti Easiest way to build hardware gadgets using plain English | HDWR | PH | 105 | frozen | — | — | 12 | 4d ago |
| 4 | Hatamoto batteries-included CMS in Go | HDWR | HN | 12 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 10 | 6d ago |
| 5 | Voxel51 Multimodal Better data. Smarter robots. Repeat. | HDWR | PH | 94 | frozen | — | — | 21 | 4d ago |
| 6 | Artificer by Nua Frontier robotics task evaluation in 4B parameters | HDWR | HN | 8 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 3d ago |
| 7 | Helio Know exactly what your rooftop solar made today | HDWR | PH | 81 | frozen | — | — | 5 | 7d ago |
| 8 | Studio 3e8 Mesa 1, affordable Metal 3D Printer | HDWR | HN | 8 | frozen | — | — | 2 | 5d ago |
| 9 | Norah Studio A new space to explore your music | HDWR | PH | 81 | +3 | ▲ +3.8% | 0 | 4 | 3d ago |
| 10 | Sunlight the camera-based infinite canvas window manager for Mac | HDWR | HN | 7 | +1 | ▲ +16.7% | 0 | 2 | 3d ago |
| 11 | Axonnic Muscle-sensing sleeves for robot training | HDWR | PH | 79 | +6 | ▲ +8.2% | 2 | 5 | 3d ago |
| 12 | macOS window switcher replacement that keeps each Space separate | HDWR | HN | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 8d ago |
| 13 | Prosyo AI SDR that books meetings - run it from ChatGPT or Claude | HDWR | PH | 35 | +7 | ▲ +25.0% | 1 | 8 | 3d ago |
| 14 | Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology | HDWR | HN | 4 | +1 | — | 2 | 3 | 4d ago |
| 15 | CaptureHop Download your Meta Quest captures over home Wi-Fi | HDWR | PH | 11 | +1 | ▲ +10.0% | 1 | 2 | 3d ago |
| 16 | Manage BOMs for multi-board PCB projects | HDWR | HN | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 6d ago |
| 17 | Drone Show Arts Turn your idea into a drone light show in minutes | HDWR | PH | 6 | frozen | — | — | 4 | 7d ago |
| 18 | Cerebellum small model on the robot, big model for what it can't undo | HDWR | HN | 3 | +3IPO | — | 1 | 1 | 3d ago |
| 19 | Your Stressy One number for your energy, on iPhone and Apple Watch | HDWR | PH | 4 | frozen | — | — | 4 | 8d ago |
| 20 | VelaTrace KiCad plugin Catch PCB mistakes before you order the board | HDWR | HN | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 1 | 5d ago |
| 21 | Cobuild The place to discover hacks and mods for the devices you own | HDWR | PH | 4 | frozen | — | — | 1 | 4d ago |
| 22 | Arc-decide an MIT 0.4B decision model for RAG checks that runs on CPU | HDWR | HN | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 7d ago |
| 23 | ScreenWarden for Roku Screen Time and Parental Controls for Roku Devices | HDWR | PH | 4 | frozen | — | — | 1 | 7d ago |
| 24 | A browser app that controls my bike trainer over Bluetooth | HDWR | HN | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 25 | Dream-1 by Dream Labs Give new robots an AI brain without training from scratch | HDWR | PH | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 1 | 3d ago |
| 26 | Ballast macOS app to clear disk space | HDWR | HN | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 27 | PingMaster Pro: Wi‑Fi & 5G Speed Test Wi-Fi & 5G Speed Test, Ping, Jitter & Network Analyzer | HDWR | PH | 3 | frozen | — | — | 1 | 4d ago |
| 28 | Fili a scriptable Zadig alternative for USB drivers on Windows | HDWR | HN | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 7d ago |
| 29 | Melo Free live radio and podcasts on the web and iPhone | HDWR | PH | 3 | frozen | — | — | 1 | 8d ago |
| 30 | Starboard, Rules of the Road for Satellites | HDWR | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 1 | 4d ago |
| 31 | bSaver MacBook Battery Charge Limiter for macOS | HDWR | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 3 | 5d ago |
| 32 | Pinscope remote access, logs and OTA for ESP32 in 9.4KB of RAM | HDWR | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 1 | 6d ago |
| 33 | Tunetrace Radio powered music discovery | HDWR | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 3 | 6d ago |
| 34 | OhmLens, Learn electronics with live circuit simulations | HDWR | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 35 | Skip FM Live radio from around the world, one skip away | HDWR | PH | 2 | +2IPO | — | 1 | 1 | 2d ago |
| 36 | Concordia, a 21 km rotating space city you can walk in the browser | HDWR | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 37 | RadioRat Explore the world through live radio | HDWR | PH | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 1 | 3d ago |
| 38 | LanGuard, a Mac menu-bar app that turns Wi-Fi off while you're wired | HDWR | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 39 | Zero-markup OpenAI-compatible router. SentioGate — Zero-markup, BYOK intelligent model router. | HDWR | PH | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 1 | 3d ago |
| 40 | Kiiwi-Mechanical Keyboard Sound App for Mac | HDWR | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 6d ago |
| 41 | Tovan Build hardware products with AI | HDWR | PH | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 1 | 3d ago |
| 42 | I made an open-source phone app that debloats your Google TV over Wi-Fi | HDWR | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 7d ago |
| 43 | SwipeSet Show your favorite photos, not your whole camera roll | HDWR | PH | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 1 | 3d ago |
| 44 | Generate 3D printable mesh from laser scanned terrain data | HDWR | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 7d ago |
| 45 | Arai Cam Free b&w street camera for android and iOS | HDWR | PH | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 1 | 3d ago |
| 46 | Bringing in usb3 to raspberry pico [open hardware] | HDWR | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 8d ago |
| 47 | GPS Map Camera: Geotag & Stamp The ad-free GPS camera for site photos and field reports | HDWR | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 1 | 5d ago |
| 48 | DigiTiles Build logic circuits, then turn them into reusable chips | HDWR | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 1 | 5d ago |
| 49 | Spectra by Arc Signal On-device Bluetooth, local network & magnetic-field analysis | HDWR | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 1 | 5d ago |
| 50 | Aerosoul Technologies Everyday apps today, robots and aerospace tomorrow | HDWR | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 1 | 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