Open Source & Libraries (OSRC)
Sector · Show HN + Product Hunt · data as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC
launches · 1D Oct 16 vs Oct 9 (same weekday) (11)
hit rate · Oct 14 settled (1/8) vs Oct 13 (2/12)
— Not significant at current sample size: −4.2pp, 12 → 8 settled launches (needs 100+ in each window).
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
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
- 8Oct 16
- Avg daily launches
- 8.88d
- 7D range
- 5 – 12Oct 10–Oct 16
- Hit rate
- 9.8%5/51 · Oct 9–Oct 14
- Volatility
- 51%7 daily chg
- Share of market
- 0.8%7D
- Top source
- Product Hunt59%
- Previous window
- 11Oct 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. 58 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 | Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free | OSRC | HN | 221 | +1 | ▲ +0.5% | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 2 | OpenWhispr for iOS 100% open source, free & on device transcription | OSRC | PH | 102 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 3 | Reelbird Open Source Loom + Screen Studio alternative for Mac | OSRC | PH | 90 | frozen | — | — | 2d ago | |
| 4 | AsoBeast Open-Source ASO Rank Tracker for App Store and Google Play | OSRC | HN | 10 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 7d ago |
| 5 | GitComet 0.3.0 Fastest Open Source | OSRC | PH | 13 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 6 | Free LED pixel-pitch and display-size calculators (open source) | OSRC | HN | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 6d ago | |
| 7 | talkflow 100% free, open-source, and private alternative to WisprFlow | OSRC | PH | 10 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 36h ago | |
| 8 | RoboGym open-source (Apache-2.0) Dual arm SO101 playground | OSRC | HN | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 9 | AI Design System Doctor The Essential Toolkit | OSRC | PH | 8 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 10 | OpenMCX An open source mission critical communications stack | OSRC | HN | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 11 | ABYSM A pixel-art dive to the Challenger Deep, now open source | OSRC | PH | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 36h ago | |
| 12 | Expose Self-hosted ngrok alternative in Go | OSRC | HN | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 13 | Chai UI AI-native, open source design system | OSRC | PH | 3 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 14 | Cwist; a hobby-grade C17 web framework that keeps your app simple | OSRC | HN | 2 | +2IPO | — | 2 | 13h ago | |
| 15 | UGCdrop - Text Hook Library Hooks that already went viral, ready to reuse | OSRC | PH | 2 | +2IPO | — | 1 | 12h ago | |
| 16 | Reelbird, an open-source Loom and Screen Studio alternative for macOS | OSRC | HN | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 26h ago |
| 17 | MyMacCleaner A Open source version of Mac Cleaner | OSRC | PH | 2 | +2IPO | — | 1 | 12h ago | |
| 18 | Alternative to Cube and MetricFlow | OSRC | HN | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 19 | Antaeus Open-source semantic policy engine with testable decisions | OSRC | PH | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 36h ago | |
| 20 | Terra Restore Wasteland – Looking for Feedbacks – Soon Open Source | OSRC | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 26h ago |
| 21 | Screenframe3D - The free mockup library Your app, on a real device. 100% free. | OSRC | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 2d ago | |
| 22 | GPT-2 124M trained from scratch 2.48B tokens, 2.8h on 4 A40s | OSRC | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 23 | OpenClean Free, open-source Mac cleaner you can read and undo | OSRC | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 24 | GovTech Index, the state of government open source | OSRC | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 25 | GuiaFlow Build interactive product tours, free and open source | OSRC | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 26 | A minimalistic building blocks style C++ coroutine library | OSRC | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 27 | WaterSheep The open-source alternative to Jev | OSRC | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 28 | eqMini Open-source macOS equalizer with per-app controls | OSRC | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 45h ago |
| 29 | EffectCraft Guide An independent guide to the open-source AE alternative | OSRC | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 30 | CueLight open-source <2mb/0.5M param always listening turn detector | OSRC | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 31 | Babel Life Possible lives hidden in Borges' Library of Babel | OSRC | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 32 | Bokal Open-source cookie editor without the "tabs" permission | OSRC | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 33 | Cuedex: AI Prompt Library Spark extraordinary results from any AI. | OSRC | PH | 2 | frozen | — | — | 5d ago | |
| 34 | I tried SERPSpur as an alternative to semrush | OSRC | HN | 1 | frozen | — | — | 0 | 2d ago |
| 35 | MineForm Alternative to Google Forms | OSRC | PH | 1 | +1IPO | — | 1 | 12h ago | |
| 36 | Multi persona library to eradicate Spec Hallucination | OSRC | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 37 | Laravel Support Portal Starter Kit Stop rebuilding support portals from scratch | OSRC | PH | 1 | +1IPO | — | 1 | 12h ago | |
| 38 | Pluto open-source second-brain for work | OSRC | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 39 | Logoshots Free 65k+ Icon Library, Customize colors, background online. | OSRC | PH | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 36h ago | |
| 40 | Podway your self-hosted apps, run by an AI admin | OSRC | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 41 | Tillora Self-hosted multi-tenant POS & inventory SaaS on Laravel | OSRC | PH | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 36h ago | |
| 42 | Keepjson Open-source jsonbin.io alternative on Cloudflare Workers | OSRC | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 43 | Raging Page Free, open-source screenwriting app in your browser | OSRC | PH | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 36h ago | |
| 44 | RME open-source Android scanner with no INTERNET permission | OSRC | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 45 | Simplify Calculator A library of simplifications | OSRC | PH | 1 | frozen | — | — | 2d ago | |
| 46 | Open-Source Canva Alternative | OSRC | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 6d ago |
| 47 | Sill Sill, any window from your Mac on iOS, free and open source | OSRC | PH | 1 | frozen | — | — | 2d ago | |
| 48 | Modelship an open source ray backed model cluster | OSRC | HN | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 6d ago |
| 49 | Paperwing The free, open-source alternative to Adobe Acrobat | OSRC | PH | 1 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 50 | DeepSeekBot Open-source Grok Bot alternative built on DeepSeek Harness | OSRC | PH | 1 | frozen | — | — | 5d 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