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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

Hardware & IoT (HDWR)

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

17+4 (+30.8%)

launches · 1D Oct 16 vs Oct 9 (same weekday) (13)

0.0%—

hit rate · Oct 14 settled (0/10) vs Oct 13 (2/20)

— Not significant at current sample size: −10.0pp, 20 → 10 settled launches (needs 100+ in each window).

+10.0

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
02550Oct 3: 2 launches (incomplete day)Oct 4: 3 launches (incomplete day)Oct 5: 5 launches (incomplete day)Oct 6: 4 launches (incomplete day)Oct 7: 5 launches (incomplete day)Oct 8: 2 launches (incomplete day)Oct 9: 13 launchesOct 10: 7 launchesOct 11: 7 launchesOct 12: 15 launchesOct 13: 20 launchesOct 14: 10 launchesOct 15: 26 launchesOct 16: 17 launchesOct 17: 15 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: 2 of 13 settled launches hit 10+ votes (15.4%)Oct 10: 0 of 7 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 11: 0 of 7 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 12: 1 of 15 settled launches hit 10+ votes (6.7%)Oct 13: 2 of 20 settled launches hit 10+ votes (10.0%)Oct 14: 0 of 10 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)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
17Oct 16
Avg daily launches
14.48d
7D range
7 – 26Oct 10–Oct 16
Hit rate
6.9%5/72 · Oct 9–Oct 14
Volatility
83%7 daily chg
Share of market
1.3%7D
Top source
Product Hunt81%
Previous window
13Oct 9

Stocks in this sector (HDWR)

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%). 0 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.

No product with a previous traction of 5+ gained in the latest interval for this filter.

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

HDWR · Hardware & IoT · Launch Index