Hardware & IoT (HDWR)
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 (2/18)
— 7D hit-rate change (settled days only) needs 14 complete days; 11 available (Oct 4–Oct 14). Expected from about Oct 20.
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Launches & hit rate
5 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
- 4Oct 16
- Avg daily launches
- 3.213d
- 7D range
- 0 – 6Oct 10–Oct 16
- Hit rate
- 11.1%2/18 · Oct 8–Oct 14
- Volatility
- 85%11 daily chg
- Share of market
- 1.9%7D
- Top source
- Show HN100%
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Stocks in this sector (HDWR)
Launched on Oct 16 (the latest complete UTC day) or listed since the previous run (IPO), ranked by current traction. Product Hunt launches all list at 07:01 UTC; their traction has had at most one or two daily updates. 6 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Llmspeed feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware | HDWR | 116 | +116IPO | — | 41 | 16h ago | |
| 2 | Crowd Supply GoFundMe for hardware development | HDWR | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 44h ago | |
| 3 | case blossom, design and manufacture cases for e-readers and devices | HDWR | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 36h ago |
| 4 | Reverse engineered my standing desk firmware | HDWR | 1 | +1IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 9h ago |
| 5 | RoamDial Roam the live radio in a 3D particle galaxy | HDWR | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 36h ago |
| 6 | AlphaDocs Offline document editor with LAN collaboration | HDWR | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 33h 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