Best launches of Friday, October 9, 2026

936 tools launched on Product Hunt and Show HN. 56 got real traction (10+ votes or points). Ranked by traction within each source.

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PH Product Hunt· top 20 of 806

1
Busabase
The general system of record for AI agents
350 votes
2
Zernio
Marketing infrastructure for products and agents
331 votes
3
Playground by Google Labs
Create, play, and share your own games with Google AI
227 votes
4
Together Link
Use open models in your harness
186 votes
5
Odyssey 3
A world model that simulates physics in real time
160 votes
6
Gemini Agent for Google Cloud
The work agent that runs on both Gemini and Claude
150 votes
7
Staffcoder
Build like a real engineer
109 votes
8
Refs
Give Claude better references for your videos
106 votes
9
AgentSDR
Open-source AI SDR
106 votes
10
Pine Computer
A cloud computer built for AI to get jobs done
96 votes
11
OpenPilot
Open-source desktop AI agent for any model you choose
96 votes
12
OpenVids
Open-source video editor you run by chatting with AI agents
95 votes
13
BrightBean Studio
Open-source Buffer alternative for social media teams
93 votes
14
Amazon Alexa Tablets
Full Google Play, Alexa+ and a Kindle reading mode
90 votes
15
OpenCharm
Open-source body for the AI agent you already run
89 votes
16
HeyPi
Build and ship anything live, in-meetings
85 votes
17
Opposable
Computer use for phones to give your AI thumbs
81 votes
18
Murmur
A private voice-first notepad for your thoughts
80 votes
19
Melete
An Always On Personal Agent With a Team Workspace
79 votes
20
Phonable
Missed calls, handled: callers get a text, you get the gist
79 votes

HN Show HN· top 20 of 117

1
Carrier-Explode
iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded
432 points
2
Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen
AI Agents
419 points
3
Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser
Developer Tools
241 points
4
The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read
Writing & Content
190 points
5
Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes
Education & Learning
92 points
6
Apogee
Rebuilding Mozilla's Orbit, fully local and private
66 points
7
Edi Life OS
self-hosted life dashboard with an MCP server for AI
41 points
8
OldRoll, a free vintage photo editor for the browser
Design & Images
17 points
9
Babytalk
Offline speech to text and text to speech on ESP32
14 points
10
Nace.ai Document Intelligence 1.0
AI Tools & LLM Apps
8 points
11
Woodpecker
a browser agent built with Pi and user scripts
7 points
12
I made a TV game console inside an antenna plug
Games & Entertainment
6 points
13
RcloneView 1.6
A desktop GUI for rclone with 40 cloud storages
6 points
14
All Things Banana
banana news, prices, and a daily Wikipedia game
6 points
15
Long term Memory and 50M token window for LLM
AI Tools & LLM Apps
6 points
16
Excali-mode
Other
6 points
17
Veil
Zero-knowledge messenger with post-quantum encryption
6 points
18
Rename Super Intelligence Back to Artificial Intelligence
AI Tools & LLM Apps
5 points
19
Peer-to-peer web search over the YaCy network
Productivity
5 points
20
I built an open-source AWS FinOps auditor using Pandas
Open Source & Libraries
5 points