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Data as of Oct 17, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC · traction last updated Oct 17, 13:13 UTC · updates about once a day
Traction is early-adopter votes (Product Hunt) or points (Show HN), not usage. It stops updating about 31–36 hours after launch on Product Hunt and 7 days on Show HN. Categories come from keyword rules (about 70–75% accurate). Nothing is estimated.
launches · Oct 14–Oct 16 vs Oct 11–Oct 13
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.
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. 542 matches; top 200 loaded. Spam giveaways excluded.
Mixed sources. Traction is Product Hunt votes (PH) or Show HN points (HN) — not the same unit, and PH has ~7× the launches. So each source is ranked on its own and the two are alternated (PH #1, HN #1, PH #2, HN #2, …); the # column is that combined order. Pick a source above to see one source’s full ranking.
| # | Sector | Src | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Base Code Let your whole team build on your product | DEVT | PH | 197 | frozen | — | — | 6d ago | |
| 2 | Proa A Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering | DEVT | HN | 105 | +1 | ▲ +1.0% | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 3 | Polylane Impact Analysis Catch risky pull requests before they break production | DEVT | PH | 116 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 4 | Spotatui, a Spotify TUI/GUI without web API rate limits | DEVT | HN | 91 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 5d ago | |
| 5 | Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) GNOME 51, Rust coreutils, and a refreshed Linux desktop | DEVT | PH | 98 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 6 | A guided 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum, built in code | DEVT | HN | 90 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 7 | Kerno 1.0 The AI Runtime Backend QA Engineer | DEVT | PH | 92 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 8 | Parsimony an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add | DEVT | HN | 77 | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 4d ago | |
| 9 | AdHelm CLI An Open Sourced CLI for Managing Ads | DEVT | PH | 82 | frozen | — | — | 5d ago | |
| 10 | Ito Build Terminal UIs in Lua | DEVT | HN | 74 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 11 | CodeCrab AI code reviews with deep analysis & multi-tool integrations | DEVT | PH | 77 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 12 | My Terminal Themes Web App | DEVT | HN | 43 | +1 | ▲ +2.4% | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 13 | CmdRound Assess how engineers build with artificial intelligence | DEVT | PH | 73 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 14 | Building an LLM from Scratch in TypeScript | DEVT | HN | 33 | +1 | ▲ +3.1% | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 15 | DevTerminal A macOS terminal with a Run button that knows your project | DEVT | PH | 73 | frozen | — | — | 7d ago | |
| 16 | Deslop Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript | DEVT | HN | 32 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 17 | Codemind Delegate coding. Get back code that works. | DEVT | PH | 71 | frozen | — | — | 6d ago | |
| 18 | Sayso, free open source dictation for Mac, Windows, and Linux | DEVT | HN | 25 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 19 | Sparrow Self-hosted webhook delivery. One binary, just Postgres. | DEVT | PH | 62 | +2 | ▲ +3.3% | 4 | 2d ago | |
| 20 | Mosh-rs, Mosh rewritten in Rust with scrollback and Windows support | DEVT | HN | 20 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 21 | FinderGit Every Git repo on your Mac: browse, commit, review, clean | DEVT | PH | 61 | +1 | ▲ +1.7% | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 22 | I rewrote my website in Swift | DEVT | HN | 17 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 5d ago |
| 23 | Payload Peek Catch Webhooks. Inspect Payloads. Generate TypeScript. | DEVT | PH | 61 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 24 | The first short movie built using code and AI | DEVT | HN | 14 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 3d ago | |
| 25 | Helicon Open-source desktop app and VS Code panel for Muse Code | DEVT | PH | 59 | +1 | ▲ +1.7% | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 26 | Knitting A shared-memory concurrency runtime for Node.js,Bun,and Deno | DEVT | HN | 12 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 27 | Email HTML Editor by Reloop Visual editor for email HTML. Free, no signup. | DEVT | PH | 14 | frozen | — | — | 5d ago | |
| 28 | ManimGX Manim's API on a Rust/wgpu engine, for 3D videos in Python | DEVT | HN | 10 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 7d ago | |
| 29 | Formalini V2 Developer Tools. Business. Document to Data. Earn with Us | DEVT | PH | 11 | frozen | — | — | 5d ago | |
| 30 | Preloop GitHub Actions locally in microvms and SSH/pause failures | DEVT | HN | 9 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 6d ago | |
| 31 | HVAC Load Calculator Free Manual J calculator with real ZIP-code design temps | DEVT | PH | 11 | frozen | — | — | 5d ago | |
| 32 | Doiter Language where pointers and stack frames are Docker containers | DEVT | HN | 8 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 6d ago | |
| 33 | DropText Share text or code with a link. Pro free until 2027 | DEVT | PH | 11 | frozen | — | — | 5d ago | |
| 34 | Gvmux A native macOS terminal with vertical tabs, built on libghostty | DEVT | HN | 7 | +1 | ▲ +16.7% | 0 | 5d ago | |
| 35 | JevStation Typed decisions for your code: probabilities, not prose | DEVT | PH | 10 | frozen | — | — | 5d ago | |
| 36 | Things to Do API | DEVT | HN | 6 | +2 | — | 1 | 36h ago | |
| 37 | Fraya The design-first commerce OS for small businesses | DEVT | PH | 10 | frozen | — | — | 5d ago | |
| 38 | Geneva, a Rust FFmpeg CLI alternative with HTML/CSS graphics | DEVT | HN | 6 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 4d ago |
| 39 | OpenSVG.dev 321k+ Free SVG Icons, Ready for Designers & Developers. | DEVT | PH | 9 | frozen | — | — | 4d ago | |
| 40 | Self Hosted System One Decision API for Images | DEVT | HN | 6 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 6d ago |
| 41 | Vimonto Deploy Deploy apps to your own servers. Without the hassle. | DEVT | PH | 8 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 42 | Gitsu.app A Linear-alternative built on GitHub Projects | DEVT | HN | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 43 | ClientSummary Turn GitHub commits into client progress reports using AI | DEVT | PH | 8 | frozen | — | — | 5d ago | |
| 44 | Videre a Rust CLI to manage your photos and videos with joy | DEVT | HN | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 2d ago | |
| 45 | LazySusan: AI API Management for Teams Track developer API usage and spending in one dashboard. | DEVT | PH | 8 | frozen | — | — | 5d ago | |
| 46 | Code Like It's 198x | DEVT | HN | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 4d ago | |
| 47 | resolve() The entity API that knows when not to answer | DEVT | PH | 7 | frozen | — | — | 3d ago | |
| 48 | Right-click any log line to see its call stack in VS Code | DEVT | HN | 5 | +5IPO | — | 0 | 0 | 24h ago |
| 49 | SkillFoundry Your best engineer couldn't pass your own interview | DEVT | PH | 6 | frozen | — | — | 6d ago | |
| 50 | An unofficial download picker for the ArtCraft Rust apps | DEVT | HN | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 7d 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