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Experimental: traction = early-adopter votes (PH) / points (HN), not downloads or usage; updated about once a day and frozen ~31–36h after launch on Product Hunt (7 days on Show HN); sectors come from keyword rules (~70–75% accurate); data starts Oct 3 (HN) / Oct 9 (PH). “—” means not enough data; nothing is estimated. How it works

Best launches of Monday, October 12, 2026

915 tools launched on Product Hunt and Show HN. 32 got real traction (10+ votes or points). Ranked by traction within each source.

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PH Product Hunt· top 20 of 770

  1. 1
    Google EmbeddingGemma 2

    An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

    297 votes
  2. 2
    ngram 2.0

    Create explainers, screencasts, and AI avatar videos

    259 votes
  3. 3
    Base Code

    Let your whole team build on your product

    197 votes
  4. 4
    guilds.run

    Create multi-agent workflows that you can trust

    193 votes
  5. 5
    Knocket

    Chat with visitors from your website or link

    182 votes
  6. 6
    Manifold MCP

    SEO, AI answers, social, ads and leads data for your agent

    157 votes
  7. 7
    Ancher 2.0

    Turn everything you read and save into work you can ship

    150 votes
  8. 8
    Hexis Cloud

    One company brain for all your AI agents

    124 votes
  9. 9
    Kudos 3.0

    The AI that finds money you're missing and gets it back

    119 votes
  10. 10
    Scrape Anything by Context.dev

    Turn any website into clean data with one API call.

    103 votes
  11. 11
    Bearconnect 2.0

    AI-Powered LinkedIn Platform for Content and Outreach

    98 votes
  12. 12
    ExcaliClaw

    Hand-drawn diagrams your AI agent can draw with you

    91 votes
  13. 13
    Dropstone CLI

    The self-learning coding agent for your terminal

    88 votes
  14. 14
    Invited - AI Reminder Scanner

    AI reminder scanner for bills, invites & documents

    86 votes
  15. 15
    Understory Notes

    Notes that tell the tale

    80 votes
  16. 16
    SquadRoom

    AI employees that work 24/7

    78 votes
  17. 17
    Milepost

    An iOS driving journal for your car, with an MCP server

    77 votes
  18. 18
    Cube Forms

    Forms that can be filled by agents

    77 votes
  19. 19
    SalesRep.com

    Your AI sales rep: live prices, quotes & follow-ups 24/7

    75 votes
  20. 20
    Codemind

    Delegate coding. Get back code that works.

    71 votes

HN Show HN· top 20 of 141

  1. 1314 points
  2. 2
    Indigene

    Native plants for where you stand

    118 points
  3. 3
    Atticus

    Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p

    115 points
  4. 484 points
  5. 5
    Brickbrag

    A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser

    79 points
  6. 640 points
  7. 717 points
  8. 8
    GeoRadios

    Spin a globe, hear what's on the radio there

    10 points
  9. 910 points
  10. 10
    E2E

    Open-source agentic testing framework for web, iOS and Android

    9 points
  11. 11
    Preloop

    GitHub Actions locally in microvms and SSH/pause failures

    9 points
  12. 12
    Chkit

    Schema, migrations and backfills for ClickHouse (like Drizzle)

    9 points
  13. 13
    IHMT

    Infinite Hierarchical Memory Tree for AI Agents

    8 points
  14. 14
    Homebutler

    my server report printed 7 lines for 2 changes, now 2

    8 points
  15. 15
    News.txt

    world news by region, from each region's own outlets

    6 points
  16. 165 points
  17. 175 points
  18. 185 points
  19. 195 points
  20. 20
    An Atlas of Applied AI

    AI Tools & LLM Apps

    4 points
Best Product Hunt & Show HN launches, Monday, October 12, 2026 · Launch Index