LAUNCH·INDEX
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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 · data as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC

9−2 (−18.2%)

launches · 3D Oct 14–Oct 16 vs Oct 7–Oct 9 (same weekday) (11)

10.0%—

hit rate · Oct 12–Oct 14 settled (1/10) vs Oct 5–Oct 7 (1/14)

— Not significant at current sample size: +2.9pp, 14 → 10 settled launches (needs 100+ in each window).

−6.7

trending score

Launches & hit rate

Supply · launches per day
0510Oct 10: 0 launchesOct 11: 2 launchesOct 12: 2 launchesOct 13: 6 launchesOct 14: 2 launchesOct 15: 3 launchesOct 16: 4 launchesOct 17: 3 launches (incomplete day)Oct 10Oct 11Oct 12Oct 13Oct 14Oct 15Oct 16Oct 17
Demand · hit rate per day (share of settled launches with 10+ votes)
0%25%50%Oct 10: no launchesOct 11: 0 of 2 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 12: 1 of 2 settled launches hit 10+ votes (50.0%)Oct 13: 0 of 6 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 14: 0 of 2 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 15: launches not settled yetOct 16: launches not settled yetOct 17: incomplete dayOct 10Oct 11Oct 12Oct 13Oct 14Oct 15Oct 16Oct 17

4 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%
Previous window
11Oct 7–Oct 9

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
1Llmspeed

feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware

HDWR116+116IPO—4115h ago
2Crowd Supply

GoFundMe for hardware development

HDWR30—043h ago
3case blossom, design and manufacture cases for e-readers and devicesHDWR20—0035h ago
4Reverse engineered my standing desk firmwareHDWR1+1IPO—008h ago
5RoamDial

Roam the live radio in a 3D particle galaxy

HDWR10—0035h ago
6AlphaDocs

Offline document editor with LAN collaboration

HDWR10—0032h 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

HDWR · Hardware & IoT · Launch Index