Hardware & IoT (HDWR)
Sector · Show HN + Product Hunt · data as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC
launches · 3D Oct 14–Oct 16 vs Oct 11–Oct 13 (42)
hit rate · Oct 12–Oct 14 settled (3/45) vs Oct 9–Oct 11 (2/27)
— Not significant at current sample size: −0.7pp, 27 → 45 settled launches (needs 100+ in each window).
trending score
Launches: Weekday effect likely: Wed–Fri is compared with Sun–Tue, not the same weekdays last week (not enough history yet; expected from about Oct 19). Launch counts and hit rates swing a lot by weekday.
Hit rate: Weekday effect likely: Mon–Wed is compared with Fri–Sun, not the same weekdays last week (not enough history yet; expected from about Oct 21). Launch counts and hit rates swing a lot by weekday.
Launches & hit rate
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
- 42Oct 11–Oct 13
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. 110 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 | Llmspeed feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware | HDWR | HN | 116 | +116IPO | — | 41 | 13h ago | |
| 2 | siliXon Turn a plain English idea into a circuit board you can order | HDWR | PH | 95 | frozen | — | — | 2d ago | |
| 3 | Vincentt Bring your ideas to life through the camera. | HDWR | PH | 84 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 4 | GeoRadios Spin a globe, hear what's on the radio there | HDWR | HN | 10 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 5d ago | |
| 5 | Spiralens Golden ratio camera that tells you where to move your phone | HDWR | PH | 76 | +76IPO | — | 7 | 11h ago | |
| 6 | My live 3D satellite tracker, now with asteroids and a UAP archive | HDWR | HN | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 7 | Wolia Track good and bad habits in two taps on Apple Watch | HDWR | PH | 16 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 8 | Multi-FPGA Usable Newbie Chips | HDWR | HN | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 9 | Injourn A quiet, private space for your thoughts | HDWR | PH | 5 | frozen | — | — | 2d ago | |
| 10 | My radio station calls its listeners | HDWR | HN | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 6d ago |
| 11 | Lunatic Fling Lunatic Fringe-inspired space combat with a daily challenge | HDWR | PH | 5 | frozen | — | — | 2d ago | |
| 12 | Crowd Supply GoFundMe for hardware development | HDWR | HN | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 41h ago | |
| 13 | paperfeel.ing Make your PDF look scanned. Spare the printer. | HDWR | PH | 5 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 14 | Netsat, a shared internet virtual satellite you can use to learn DSP | HDWR | HN | 3 | +2 | — | 0 | 0 | 17h ago |
| 15 | Muse Gadgets Hub Community projects for Meta's Muse Gadgets | HDWR | PH | 4 | frozen | — | — | 2d ago | |
| 16 | Pericentre, a 3D space atlas with continuous zoom | HDWR | HN | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 17 | Perigee Real-time web viewer of artificial objects in space | HDWR | PH | 4 | frozen | — | — | 5d ago | |
| 18 | I bought a bunch of 'smart' devices. AI was able to hack most of them | HDWR | HN | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 19 | Diskzy See where your Mac's space went, System Data included | HDWR | PH | 3 | +3IPO | — | 1 | 11h ago | |
| 20 | BitRun v0.2 Run 8B ternary LLMs on CPU with live wattage telemetry | HDWR | HN | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 21 | Rocket ADs Beyond installs, we drive results | HDWR | PH | 3 | frozen | — | — | 2d ago | |
| 22 | case blossom, design and manufacture cases for e-readers and devices | HDWR | HN | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 33h ago |
| 23 | TypeCam Turn your iPhone into a wired camera for OBS on Mac | HDWR | PH | 3 | frozen | — | — | 2d ago | |
| 24 | Timestamp Camera Online | HDWR | HN | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 25 | Rocket The open app platform | HDWR | PH | 3 | frozen | — | — | 2d ago | |
| 26 | Custom Firmware for Insta360 Wave | HDWR | HN | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 27 | PostCrows Teleprompter Look confident on camera everytime | HDWR | PH | 2 | +2IPO | — | 1 | 11h ago | |
| 28 | BitRun Run 1-bit LLMs on CPU at 98T/s without compiling | HDWR | HN | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 29 | PaedDeadSpace Pediatric Ventilation & Dead Space Simulator | HDWR | PH | 2 | +2IPO | — | 1 | 11h ago | |
| 30 | Reverse engineered my standing desk firmware | HDWR | HN | 1 | +1IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 6h ago |
| 31 | MyWrite Your own space to think. | HDWR | PH | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 35h ago | |
| 32 | RoamDial Roam the live radio in a 3D particle galaxy | HDWR | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 33h ago |
| 33 | Battery Life Calculator Runtime, capacity & power for any battery project | HDWR | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 2d ago | |
| 34 | AlphaDocs Offline document editor with LAN collaboration | HDWR | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 30h ago |
| 35 | Mokxi A free electronics simulator that runs in your browser | HDWR | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 36 | Circuits Free, Open-Source Alternative to Altium Develop | HDWR | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 37 | BluPe A robotics playground: prompt robotic policies on real arms | HDWR | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 38 | Multi-modal Muse assistant on an ESP32 | HDWR | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 39 | Japa A calm prayer and mantra counter for iPhone and Apple Watch | HDWR | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 40 | Rollport Copy new iPhone photos to a folder over USB | HDWR | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 41 | Serin: Personal Privacy Radar Find hidden cameras, trackers & smart glasses around you | HDWR | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 42 | Omni Radio A PWA for internet radio | HDWR | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 43 | WUKO for Mac A small robot looking for a home. Preferably your Mac. | HDWR | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 5d ago | |
| 44 | Perigee real-time web viewer of artificial objects in space | HDWR | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 6d ago |
| 45 | Kasama Space CRM, projects and invoicing for freelancers and small teams | HDWR | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 5d ago | |
| 46 | CamDesk by Secutel Turn any PC into an ONVIF camera to monitor POS & desks | HDWR | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 6d ago | |
| 47 | IoT Message Turn Hologram IoT device events into SMS and email alerts | HDWR | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 6d ago | |
| 48 | Mechanical Keyboard App: FunKey Typing Sound, Key Press audio | HDWR | PH | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 35h ago |
| 49 | LM-35 AF A disposable camera inside Lightmeter, just like 90s | HDWR | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 0 | 3d ago |
| 50 | Where are the batteries? Ask out loud! Ask out loud — the app answers. Works offline. | HDWR | PH | 1 | frozen | — | — | 3d 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