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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

Open Source & Libraries (OSRC)

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

2−6 (−75.0%)

launches · 1D Oct 16 vs Oct 9 (same weekday) (8)

50.0%—

hit rate · Oct 14 settled (1/2) vs Oct 7 (0/3)

— Not significant at current sample size: +50.0pp, 3 → 2 settled launches (needs 100+ in each window).

−31.0

trending score

Launches & hit rate

Supply · launches per day
0510Oct 3: 1 launches (incomplete day)Oct 4: 1 launchesOct 5: 3 launchesOct 6: 5 launchesOct 7: 3 launchesOct 8: 6 launchesOct 9: 8 launchesOct 10: 3 launchesOct 11: 2 launchesOct 12: 3 launchesOct 13: 5 launchesOct 14: 2 launchesOct 15: 7 launchesOct 16: 2 launchesOct 17: 1 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%25%50%Oct 3: incomplete dayOct 4: 0 of 1 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 5: 0 of 3 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 6: 0 of 5 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 7: 0 of 3 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 8: 0 of 6 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 9: 0 of 8 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 10: 1 of 3 settled launches hit 10+ votes (33.3%)Oct 11: 0 of 2 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 12: 0 of 3 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 13: 0 of 5 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 14: 1 of 2 settled launches hit 10+ votes (50.0%)Oct 15: launches not settled yetOct 16: launches not settled yetOct 17: incomplete dayOct 3Oct 5Oct 7Oct 9Oct 11Oct 13Oct 15Oct 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
2Oct 16
Avg daily launches
3.813d
7D range
2 – 7Oct 10–Oct 16
Hit rate
6.9%2/29 · Oct 8–Oct 14
Volatility
104%12 daily chg
Share of market
2.5%7D
Top source
Show HN100%
Previous window
8Oct 9

Stocks in this sector (OSRC)

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. 24 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.

#Sector
1Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally freeOSRC221+1▲ +0.5%03d ago
2AsoBeast

Open-Source ASO Rank Tracker for App Store and Google Play

OSRC1000.0%007d ago
3Free LED pixel-pitch and display-size calculators (open source)OSRC500.0%06d ago
4RoboGym

open-source (Apache-2.0) Dual arm SO101 playground

OSRC500.0%004d ago
5OpenMCX

An open source mission critical communications stack

OSRC30—004d ago
6Expose

Self-hosted ngrok alternative in Go

OSRC30—005d ago
7Cwist; a hobby-grade C17 web framework that keeps your app simpleOSRC2+2IPO—214h ago
8Reelbird, an open-source Loom and Screen Studio alternative for macOSOSRC20—0027h ago
9Alternative to Cube and MetricFlowOSRC20—005d ago
10Terra

Restore Wasteland – Looking for Feedbacks – Soon Open Source

OSRC10—0026h ago
11GPT-2 124M trained from scratch

2.48B tokens, 2.8h on 4 A40s

OSRC10—002d ago
12GovTech Index, the state of government open sourceOSRC10—002d ago
13A minimalistic building blocks style C++ coroutine libraryOSRC10—002d ago
14eqMini

Open-source macOS equalizer with per-app controls

OSRC10—0045h ago
15CueLight

open-source <2mb/0.5M param always listening turn detector

OSRC10—003d ago
16Bokal

Open-source cookie editor without the "tabs" permission

OSRC10—002d ago
17I tried SERPSpur as an alternative to semrushOSRC1frozen——02d ago
18Multi persona library to eradicate Spec HallucinationOSRC10—002d ago
19Pluto

open-source second-brain for work

OSRC10—004d ago
20Podway

your self-hosted apps, run by an AI admin

OSRC10—004d ago
21Keepjson

Open-source jsonbin.io alternative on Cloudflare Workers

OSRC10—004d ago
22RME

open-source Android scanner with no INTERNET permission

OSRC10—005d ago
23Open-Source Canva AlternativeOSRC10—006d ago
24Modelship

an open source ray backed model cluster

OSRC10—006d 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

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