LAUNCH·INDEX

Writing & Content (WRIT)

Sector · Show HN · data as of Oct 31, 2026, 3:03 PM UTC

27+6 (+28.6%)

launches · 7D Oct 24–Oct 30 vs Oct 17–Oct 23 (21)

3.8%—

hit rate · Oct 22–Oct 28 settled (1/26) vs Oct 15–Oct 21 (4/20)

— Not significant at current sample size: −16.2pp, 20 → 26 settled launches (needs 100+ in each window).

+10.4

trending score

Launches & hit rate

Supply · launches per day
0510Oct 17: 1 launchesOct 18: 2 launchesOct 19: 3 launchesOct 20: 4 launchesOct 21: 2 launchesOct 22: 5 launchesOct 23: 4 launchesOct 24: 1 launchesOct 25: 4 launchesOct 26: 6 launchesOct 27: 4 launchesOct 28: 2 launchesOct 29: 6 launchesOct 30: 4 launchesOct 31: 0 launches (incomplete day)Oct 17Oct 19Oct 21Oct 23Oct 25Oct 27Oct 29Oct 31
Demand · hit rate per day (share of settled launches with 10+ votes)
0%25%50%Oct 17: 0 of 1 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 18: 0 of 2 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 19: 1 of 3 settled launches hit 10+ votes (33.3%)Oct 20: 1 of 4 settled launches hit 10+ votes (25.0%)Oct 21: 0 of 2 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 22: 0 of 5 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 23: 0 of 4 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 24: 0 of 1 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 25: 0 of 4 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 26: 1 of 6 settled launches hit 10+ votes (16.7%)Oct 27: 0 of 4 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 28: 0 of 2 settled launches hit 10+ votes (0.0%)Oct 29: launches not settled yetOct 30: launches not settled yetOct 31: incomplete dayOct 17Oct 19Oct 21Oct 23Oct 25Oct 27Oct 29Oct 31

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
4Oct 30
Avg daily launches
3.127d
7D range
1 – 6Oct 24–Oct 30
Hit rate
3.8%1/26 · Oct 22–Oct 28
Volatility
99%25 daily chg
Share of market
2.7%7D
Top source
Show HN100%
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21Oct 17–Oct 23

Stocks in this sector (WRIT)

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. 27 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.

#Sector
1TitleArt

Make text like it's 1997

WRIT409+1▲ +0.2%0827d ago
2Typebook.lol read books by typing the letters onlyWRIT10+1▲ +11.1%0124d ago
3Showbuild

Hacker News but only for builders

WRIT6+1▲ +20.0%013d ago
4AI Heat Map Sourced from over 140 News FeedsWRIT500.0%038d ago
5Visualization of Top News StoriesWRIT40—047d ago
6HackerFlow

A Responsive HN Reader

WRIT3+3IPO—002d ago
7News article bias detector toolWRIT3+3IPO—002d ago
8Calm Web

Print magazine style reader

WRIT20—027d ago
9Advaita Vedanta

Offline Books for Android

WRIT20—016d ago
10Native gnome markdown viewer with mermaid supportWRIT20—005d ago
11Wishcode

Post an idea you wish existed

WRIT20—004d ago
12A Reading simulator app to screen dyslexia risk in preschoolersWRIT20—007d ago
13Carmen

harness for reliable AI-written Metal kernels

WRIT20—006d ago
14simdown

use SIMD to parse Markdown at ~1 GB/s

WRIT20—007d ago
15Rewrite, a free editor that rewrites text and edits Word, LaTeX and PDFWRIT20—007d ago
16A desk gauge that shows how hot the Hacker News front page isWRIT10—057d ago
17Web-based, super barebones markdown editorWRIT10—026d ago
18Parallel-text reading in 17 languages, and translate your own booksWRIT10—014d ago
19AgentEd

local-first visual Markdown editor with token counts

WRIT10—015d ago
20Break the Wall

take a wall of text apart into parts you can test

WRIT10—016d ago
21A Platform to Find Essays, personally recommended to youWRIT10—019d ago
22Boosterpedia

every Wikipedia article is a collectible card

WRIT10—003d ago
23Mktero

Read Zotero PDFs as Markdown that links back to the page

WRIT10—003d ago
24Dev Null News, a daily paper so you don't have to read every merged PRWRIT10—004d ago
25Real Time AI Heat Map Sourced from over 140 News FeedsWRIT10—004d ago
26Hugonot

Sponsor a Dedicated AI Blogger

WRIT10—006d ago
27Mood Writer

a text editor that plays nature sounds to help you focus

WRIT10—008d 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