Productivity (PROD)
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 (2/76)
— 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
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
- 13Oct 16
- Avg daily launches
- 10.213d
- 7D range
- 7 – 17Oct 10–Oct 16
- Hit rate
- 2.6%2/76 · Oct 8–Oct 14
- Volatility
- 45%12 daily chg
- Share of market
- 8.2%7D
- Top source
- Show HN100%
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Stocks in this sector (PROD)
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. 78 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BraiNOTES, handwritten notes on your lecture PDFs in a browser tab | PROD | 35 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 5d ago | |
| 2 | I got tired of btop not seeing my Mac's chip, so I built siltop | PROD | 15 | +15IPO | — | 21 | 13h ago | |
| 3 | 3D Studio in the Browser | PROD | 7 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 4 | ISA Workbench Classify and explore binaries in the browser | PROD | 6 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 6d ago |
| 5 | Kindlefall a 3D ARPG in the browser, built with Three.js | PROD | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 6d ago | |
| 6 | Use your phone as a Windows mouse and keyboard, without a phone app | PROD | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 5d ago | |
| 7 | Tinywm a scrolling window manager for macOS, inspired by Niri | PROD | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 25h ago |
| 8 | Donut Browser, the most private anti-detect browser | PROD | 4 | +1 | — | 0 | 24h ago | |
| 9 | WriteNative correct, natural English in any Mac app | PROD | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 5d ago | |
| 10 | RemoveMacAI 1.0, a Mac app to turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 | PROD | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 6d ago | |
| 11 | Sill for Android control your Mac's windows from an Android phone | PROD | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 25h ago | |
| 12 | Scriber-Pro 2.0, a Mac app that transcribes m3u8 streams from web pages | PROD | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 30h ago | |
| 13 | Textfold a native Mac text expander with plain text snippets | PROD | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 14 | Aside Mac app that suggests what to say next during calls | PROD | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 15 | Cachety Watermark ID documents in the browser, nothing is uploaded | PROD | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 16 | Clotr, a browser extension that warns you before you send PII | PROD | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 5d ago | |
| 17 | Putaway sorts your Mac's Downloads into the folders you have | PROD | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 25h ago |
| 18 | Lisorto Tidy your Mac's Downloads on-device, see every move first | PROD | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 32h ago |
| 19 | A purely in-browser harness let SaaS users act with natural language | PROD | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 20 | Mnemify 3D terrain map merging Confluence, Notion, Obsidian | PROD | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 21 | Lowlight Dim your MacBook keyboard backlight below the macOS minimum | PROD | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 22 | Dewey a connectome-driven fruit fly for your macOS menu bar | PROD | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 6d ago |
| 23 | Listener 100% on-device meeting notes for Mac ($5 once, no cloud) | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 6d ago | |
| 24 | Pomoflow a 1-bit Pomodoro with a todo list that syncs without sign-up | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 22h ago | |
| 25 | Kitaphone Call mobile phones and landlines directly from the browser | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 40h ago | |
| 26 | Kindlefall a full-fledged 3D ARPG in the browser, built with Three.js | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 27 | I built a free collection of browser-based 3D tools | PROD | 2 | +2IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 13h ago |
| 28 | Continuous Trunk Builds of Network Ups Tools (Nut) for Fedora/EL | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 39h ago |
| 29 | Pdf2epub free PDF to ePub converter with real chapters | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 31h ago |
| 30 | LifeStats summers left, years asleep, Big Mac price when you were born | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 30h ago |
| 31 | The first open-weight model for general deterministic task | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 32 | Ins Autopilot a local-first Instagram workflow extension | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 33 | Run macOS on FreeBSD's Bhyve on AMD | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 34 | Planning software for startup teams | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 35 | Magic Tools Hub 112 PDF tools that run in the browser | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 36 | Glossdex semantic search that returns nothing when nothing matches | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 37 | Virtual machines that live in your menu bar [macOS 27] | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 38 | Jruva AI workspace for chat, documents and images | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 39 | A calendar of every Chinese holiday your supplier will cite as a delay | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 40 | A tool to visualize and quantify the butterfly effect | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 41 | anygrep semantic search over notes, PDFs and images, on the CPU | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 42 | Wesnoth wouldn't run on my phone -- I rebuilt the combat in the browser | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 6d ago |
| 43 | FileoPDF, PDF tools that process your files in the browser | PROD | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 6d ago |
| 44 | Reduce sensetive info before a screenshot | PROD | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 45 | Google, Outlook and iCloud in one superpowered calendar | PROD | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 46 | A Mac app to focus on your actions instead of distractions | PROD | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 6d ago | |
| 47 | Byakugan Scan fast macOS OCR by keeping screen capture in memory | PROD | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 46h ago | |
| 48 | macOS windows-like window maximize | PROD | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 49 | Instancez Supabase-compatible back end in one container and YAML file | PROD | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 50 | Shazbot A sandboxed SSH tunnel manager for the Mac menu bar | PROD | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 2d 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