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Every launch is a stock: its traction is its votes, its sector is its category, and LNCH is the whole market. How it works

Data as of Oct 18, 2026, 12:36 PM UTC · traction last updated Oct 18, 13:29 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.

LNCHLaunch Index · all sectors
3,394−252 (−6.9%)

launches · Oct 15–Oct 17 vs Oct 12–Oct 14

Hit rate (settled)
5.9%
▲ +1.2pp · Oct 13–Oct 15 vs Oct 10–Oct 12
Trend · Volatility
+31.7 · 31%
248 hits of 4,207 settled
daily launches, 9 complete days

Launches: Weekday effect likely: Thu–Sat is compared with Mon–Wed, 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: Tue–Thu is compared with Sat–Mon, 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. 438 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.

#SectorSrc
1Google EmbeddingGemma 2

An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

AITLPH297frozen——6d ago
2Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraftAITLHN245+17▲ +7.5%847h ago
3Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooksAITLHN17400.0%05d ago
4MyLens

1-1 Live Presentations at Scale with AI.

AITLPH112+112IPO—206h ago
5I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views changeAITLHN119+1▲ +0.8%04d ago
6Microsoft Maia 300

Microsoft’s own AI chip, headed to multi-gigawatts

AITLPH93frozen——4d ago
7HarnessHive

AI-Native, Simple & Collaborative Wire Harness Design

AITLPH91frozen——5d ago
8Consus (YC F24)

LLM gateway for companies handling sensitive data

AITLHN36———4d ago
9Actually Asked

A self-improving branded AI FAQ page

AITLPH85frozen——3d ago
10Mira, AI Walking ToursAITLHN1600.0%06d ago
11Mira Tours

AI Walking Tour Guide

AITLPH83frozen——4d ago
12MirrorMD

An AI second opinion from a facial cosmetic surgeon

AITLHN10———2d ago
13Tomo for ChatGPT

Ask anything. Then play it, Duolingo-style.

AITLPH77+77IPO—36h ago
14Can AI read your mind?AITLHN600.0%04d ago
15Audimate

AI assistant that works right in the apps you already use

AITLPH72frozen——3d ago
16How to Use LLMsAITLHN600.0%03d ago
17Apple HomePod mini 2

Apple's tiny smart speaker, now built for Siri AI

AITLPH72frozen——4d ago
18AI Hub

Open Access Lesson Plans for Teaching Students about AI

AITLHN600.0%004d ago
19Screenwell.ai

An AI interviewer that runs your first-round screening

AITLPH63frozen——4d ago
20botsay

cowsay for the AI Era

AITLHN500.0%003d ago
21FamRelay

Share facts between AI assistants — only what you approve

AITLPH61frozen——4d ago
22Hardwired

turn JS into a neural net

AITLHN40—03d ago
23WPMaven

Create and run your business with AI

AITLPH22frozen——6d ago
24RL environment for complex ML DevelopmentAITLHN40—05d ago
25Accelerator AI by Lovie.co

Answer once. Apply to 40 accelerators on your Mac.

AITLPH20frozen——5d ago
26An Atlas of Applied AIAITLHN40—05d ago
27AIComics

Turn any story into a comic with AI

AITLPH12frozen——5d ago
28Monitoring my 'dumb' boiler with AIAITLHN4+2—0047h ago
29rag_control

Runtime governance and policy controls for RAG systems

AITLPH12frozen——5d ago
30SuperLocalMemory" AI brain that never bluffs

Laya, Jev, Google Gemma

AITLHN40—004d ago
31Kivi UI

Build UIs with components, blocks, shaders & AI tools.

AITLPH12frozen——5d ago
32Fuel Gauge

Claude knows its own usage limits and stops at 95%

AITLHN40—004d ago
33Cadabra AI

Turn one sentence into an edited AI film

AITLPH11frozen——5d ago
34MEF LLM Studio

Learn how LLMs generate text, token by token

AITLHN40—005d ago
35Planitude

AI builds your Gantt and flags deadline risks

AITLPH11frozen——5d ago
36Cr34te.it

a website anyone can rewrite one turn at a time with AI

AITLHN30—02d ago
37Swiftly

Turn ideas and footage into publish-ready videos with AI

AITLPH11frozen——5d ago
38What are vector embeddings? An interactive guideAITLHN30—04d ago
39Mopus

Reframe videos with AI, free and private in your browser

AITLPH11frozen——3d ago
40Boole-1.7B, a 1-bit LLM that outperforms Bonsai-1.7BAITLHN30—05d ago
41SiliconDevKit

Build native Mac apps with AI

AITLPH10frozen——5d ago
42GoRoute

Ultra-Lightweight LLM Gateway in Go (<15MB RAM)

AITLHN3+3IPO—0020h ago
43Artly

Personalized Art, powered by AI

AITLPH10frozen——5d ago
44Run AI-generated logic safely inside your appAITLHN30—003d ago
45HonestExpenses AI

Say what you spent. AI helps. It's tracked. Any platform.

AITLPH9+3▲ +50.0%130h ago
46Bifrost

High-performance AI gateway

AITLHN30—005d ago
47Arthneeti

AI that reads worldwide earnings calls so you don't have to

AITLPH9frozen——5d ago
48Asked LLM to show the most stereotypical man/woman for each countryAITLHN20—02d ago
49ByteCalculators 2.0

Audit your AI costs & SaaS runway before it's too late

AITLPH9frozen——5d ago
50Guess the LLM

read an answer and guess which model wrote it

AITLHN20—02d 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

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