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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
387+42 (+12.2%)

launches · Oct 15–Oct 17 vs Oct 8–Oct 10 (same weekday)

Hit rate (settled)
7.8%
— · Oct 13–Oct 15 vs Oct 6–Oct 8
Trend · Volatility
+5.7 · 27%
41 hits of 527 settled
daily launches, 14 complete days

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. 22 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.

#Sector
1Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally freeOSRC226+5▲ +2.3%03d ago
2RoboGym

open-source (Apache-2.0) Dual arm SO101 playground

OSRC500.0%005d ago
3I reverse engineered serum 2 and build an open source alternativeOSRC4+4IPO—220h ago
4OpenMCX

An open source mission critical communications stack

OSRC30—004d ago
5Expose

Self-hosted ngrok alternative in Go

OSRC30—006d ago
6Cwist; a hobby-grade C17 web framework that keeps your app simpleOSRC20—031h ago
7Reelbird, an open-source Loom and Screen Studio alternative for macOSOSRC20—144h ago
8Alternative to Cube and MetricFlowOSRC20—005d ago
9AIOps Cockpit

An open-source AI SRE with human-in-the-loop safety

OSRC1+1IPO—003h ago
10Terra

Restore Wasteland – Looking for Feedbacks – Soon Open Source

OSRC10—0044h ago
11GPT-2 124M trained from scratch

2.48B tokens, 2.8h on 4 A40s

OSRC10—002d ago
12GovTech Index, the state of government open sourceOSRC10—002d ago
13A minimalistic building blocks style C++ coroutine libraryOSRC10—002d ago
14eqMini

Open-source macOS equalizer with per-app controls

OSRC10—002d ago
15CueLight

open-source <2mb/0.5M param always listening turn detector

OSRC10—003d ago
16Bokal

Open-source cookie editor without the "tabs" permission

OSRC10—003d ago
17I tried SERPSpur as an alternative to semrushOSRC1frozen——03d ago
18Multi persona library to eradicate Spec HallucinationOSRC10—003d ago
19Pluto

open-source second-brain for work

OSRC10—005d ago
20Podway

your self-hosted apps, run by an AI admin

OSRC10—004d ago
21Keepjson

Open-source jsonbin.io alternative on Cloudflare Workers

OSRC10—004d ago
22RME

open-source Android scanner with no INTERNET permission

OSRC10—005d 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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