Video, Audio & Music (MDIA)
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) (20)
hit rate · Oct 12–Oct 14 settled (4/23) vs Oct 5–Oct 7 (0/25)
— Not significant at current sample size: +17.4pp, 25 → 23 settled launches (needs 100+ in each window).
trending score
Launches & hit rate
3 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
- 7Oct 16
- Avg daily launches
- 7.413d
- 7D range
- 5 – 10Oct 10–Oct 16
- Hit rate
- 10.9%5/46 · Oct 8–Oct 14
- Volatility
- 37%12 daily chg
- Share of market
- 5.1%7D
- Top source
- Show HN100%
- Previous window
- 20Oct 7–Oct 9
Stocks in this sector (MDIA)
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. 51 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard | MDIA | 570 | +1 | ▲ +0.2% | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 2 | BetterWispr Free, open-source dictation for Mac | MDIA | 220 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 6d ago | |
| 3 | Atticus Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p | MDIA | 115 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 5d ago | |
| 4 | XY Music Notation | MDIA | 85 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 5 | Ask a technical question, get an animated explainer you can interrupt | MDIA | 17 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 6 | World Watcher a map to seamlessly watch public webcam streams | MDIA | 9 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 7d ago | |
| 7 | Camera Controls and Motion for AI Video Prompts | MDIA | 9 | +5 | — | 0 | 25h ago | |
| 8 | Dub Anything Dub videos in each actor's own voice | MDIA | 8 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 9 | Online Piano Play a Free Virtual Piano Keyboard | MDIA | 6 | +6IPO | — | 1 | 16h ago | |
| 10 | Jamfetti A tool for anyone to jam out, no music experience needed | MDIA | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 11 | Tunedaway a little place to listen to music | MDIA | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 35h ago | |
| 12 | I'll Call You Later, an interactive 3D browser short film | MDIA | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 13 | Launch Videos Gallery A free collection of startup launch videos | MDIA | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 3d ago |
| 14 | OraStage turn two photos into a Hotel Lobby rap video | MDIA | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 15 | Digs For Passionate Music Explorers (Like Goodreads for Music) | MDIA | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 16 | A Music-Reading Trainer | MDIA | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 34h ago |
| 17 | SwapBackdrop reuse one cutout across video backgrounds and frames | MDIA | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 18 | If MIT OCW Was Like Cable TV | MDIA | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 19 | Make house walkthrough videos only from photos TensorPix | MDIA | 2 | 0 | — | 1 | 24h ago | |
| 20 | Logistic regression beats billion-parameter models at classification | MDIA | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 21 | TV Explorer. Improving UI for a Solid IPTV App | MDIA | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 23h ago | |
| 22 | MIT OCW TV | MDIA | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 23 | I made a million dollar music video for $400 | MDIA | 2 | +2IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 17h ago |
| 24 | An animated explainer on how TCP handles packet loss | MDIA | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 25 | Sjq Jq, but for AI Streaming | MDIA | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 43h ago |
| 26 | Katalog a fast local music library app for Mac (91k tracks in ~1s) | MDIA | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 32h ago |
| 27 | Digs For Passionate Music Explorers (like Goodreads for music) | MDIA | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 28 | KIRA–All-in-one local desktop media suite built to empower free speech | MDIA | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 29 | A collection of fast, browser-based web and media conversion tools | MDIA | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 30 | Mastershot a free web-based video editor (WASM AI) | MDIA | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 31 | A Safari extension to accelerate animated WebP images | MDIA | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 6d ago |
| 32 | Tapelark Record what your Mac plays, from songs to window video | MDIA | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 5d ago | |
| 33 | Discover Movies and Series on Streaming Platforms | MDIA | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 34 | Mac equivalent of Nvidia ShadowPlay. Recording missed moments on Mac | MDIA | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 35 | Malleable video editor that adapts to your workflow | MDIA | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 36 | Vocafy Listen to Vocaloid songs by producer, from the original videos | MDIA | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 6d ago | |
| 37 | EU Podcasts daily charts from 30 languages | MDIA | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 5d ago | |
| 38 | A personal creative room where an idea turns into a short film | MDIA | 1 | +1IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 9h ago |
| 39 | FeedTamer Filter YouTube by word, channel, topic, or allowlist | MDIA | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 18h ago |
| 40 | Flow activity based animated scenes for ClaudeCode, Pi and OpenCode 2 | MDIA | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 41 | Haakon Amplify Haiku to Beat Opus | MDIA | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 42 | Voice Standard Bench Open benchmark of LLMs on speech transcripts | MDIA | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 2d ago |
| 43 | A music notation editor Claude can edit while you watch [video] | MDIA | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 46h ago |
| 44 | E-reader app for iPhone, quote reels generator | MDIA | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 45 | Vector and raster animation studio for Android | MDIA | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 46 | Syncopate free sheet music with piano play-along | MDIA | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 47 | Open-source Chatbase alternative with voice | MDIA | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 48 | How to beat Pac-Man with a text classifier | MDIA | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 49 | Teasr Turn your product URL into a launch video | MDIA | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 6d ago |
| 50 | Put yourself in a street freestyle video with one photo | MDIA | 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