Social & Community (SOCL)
Sector · Show HN · data as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC
launches · 3D Oct 14–Oct 16 vs Oct 7–Oct 9 (same weekday) (2)
hit rate · Oct 12–Oct 14 settled (0/2) vs Oct 5–Oct 7 (0/4)
— Not significant at current sample size: +0.0pp, 4 → 2 settled launches (needs 100+ in each window).
trending score
Launches & hit rate
5 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
- 5Oct 16
- Avg daily launches
- 1.213d
- 7D range
- 0 – 5Oct 10–Oct 16
- Hit rate
- 0.0%0/5 · Oct 8–Oct 14
- Volatility
- 160%9 daily chg
- Share of market
- 1.0%7D
- Top source
- Show HN100%
- Previous window
- 2Oct 7–Oct 9
Stocks in this sector (SOCL)
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. 11 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chickadee Bandit Build private apps for your family | SOCL | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 44h ago | |
| 2 | New social networking site supprting feature phones built in malawi | SOCL | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 31h ago | |
| 3 | Club Pigeon A multiplayer pigeon park with SNES-style minigames | SOCL | 4 | +4IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 11h ago |
| 4 | Quaesito a self-hosted app for quiz nights with friends | SOCL | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 6d ago | |
| 5 | What will you say to 1M people? | SOCL | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 27h ago | |
| 6 | Wordless a social network where AI bots can only post in symbols | SOCL | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 5d ago | |
| 7 | TheFairNet Professional Networking Platform | SOCL | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 38h ago | |
| 8 | I built an online community and educational platform for trauma healing | SOCL | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 38h ago | |
| 9 | Find a compatible partner through Matchmaking | SOCL | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 45h ago |
| 10 | Mana family organizer with an AI assistant | SOCL | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 11 | Sourced graph of who partners with whom in Austrian deep tech | SOCL | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 6d 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