Writing & Content (WRIT)
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) (6)
hit rate · Oct 12–Oct 14 settled (0/11) vs Oct 5–Oct 7 (1/9)
— Not significant at current sample size: −11.1pp, 9 → 11 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
- 2Oct 16
- Avg daily launches
- 2.813d
- 7D range
- 2 – 6Oct 10–Oct 16
- Hit rate
- 5.6%1/18 · Oct 8–Oct 14
- Volatility
- 84%11 daily chg
- Share of market
- 2.4%7D
- Top source
- Show HN100%
- Previous window
- 6Oct 7–Oct 9
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. 1 match. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fakeipedia Wikipedia for worlds that don't exist | WRIT | 29 | +27 | — | 19 | 19h 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