Writing & Content (WRIT)
Sector · Product Hunt · data as of Oct 17, 2026, 7:01 AM UTC
launches · 3D Oct 14–Oct 16 vs Oct 11–Oct 13 (38)
hit rate · Oct 12–Oct 14 settled (1/46) vs Oct 9–Oct 11 (2/40)
— Not significant at current sample size: −2.8pp, 40 → 46 settled launches (needs 100+ in each window).
trending score
Launches: Weekday effect likely: Wed–Fri is compared with Sun–Tue, not the same weekdays last week (not enough history yet; expected from about Oct 19). Launch counts and hit rates swing a lot by weekday.
Hit rate: Weekday effect likely: Mon–Wed is compared with Fri–Sun, not the same weekdays last week (not enough history yet; expected from about Oct 21). Launch counts and hit rates swing a lot by weekday.
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
- 17Oct 16
- Avg daily launches
- 16.38d
- 7D range
- 9 – 27Oct 10–Oct 16
- Hit rate
- 3.5%3/86 · Oct 9–Oct 14
- Volatility
- 51%7 daily chg
- Share of market
- 1.6%7D
- Top source
- Product Hunt100%
- Previous window
- 38Oct 11–Oct 13
Stocks in this sector (WRIT)
Crossed the 10-vote traction line during the latest interval (Oct 17, 02:39 UTC → Oct 17, 13:13 UTC, 10.6h): under 10 at the previous run and 10+ now. Launches listed since the previous run (IPOs) have no earlier reading, so they’re left out (see New Listings). Only ~6% of launches ever get there. 0 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
No product crossed 10 votes in the latest interval for this filter.
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