LAUNCH·INDEX

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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. 55 matches. 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
1Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally freeOSRCHN226+5▲ +2.3%03d ago
2OpenWhispr for iOS

100% open source, free & on device transcription

OSRCPH102frozen——5d ago
3Reelbird

Open Source Loom + Screen Studio alternative for Mac

OSRCPH90frozen——3d ago
4RoboGym

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

OSRCHN500.0%005d ago
5GitComet 0.3.0

Fastest Open Source

OSRCPH13frozen——5d ago
6I reverse engineered serum 2 and build an open source alternativeOSRCHN4+4IPO—220h ago
7talkflow

100% free, open-source, and private alternative to WisprFlow

OSRCPH10frozen——2d ago
8OpenMCX

An open source mission critical communications stack

OSRCHN30—004d ago
9AI Design System Doctor

The Essential Toolkit

OSRCPH8frozen——5d ago
10Expose

Self-hosted ngrok alternative in Go

OSRCHN30—006d ago
11ABYSM

A pixel-art dive to the Challenger Deep, now open source

OSRCPH4frozen——2d ago
12Cwist; a hobby-grade C17 web framework that keeps your app simpleOSRCHN20—031h ago
13Chai UI

AI-native, open source design system

OSRCPH3frozen——4d ago
14Reelbird, an open-source Loom and Screen Studio alternative for macOSOSRCHN20—144h ago
15UGCdrop - Text Hook Library

Hooks that already went viral, ready to reuse

OSRCPH20—030h ago
16Alternative to Cube and MetricFlowOSRCHN20—005d ago
17MyMacCleaner

A Open source version of Mac Cleaner

OSRCPH20—030h ago
18AIOps Cockpit

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

OSRCHN1+1IPO—003h ago
19Antaeus

Open-source semantic policy engine with testable decisions

OSRCPH2frozen——2d ago
20Terra

Restore Wasteland – Looking for Feedbacks – Soon Open Source

OSRCHN10—0044h ago
21Screenframe3D - The free mockup library

Your app, on a real device. 100% free.

OSRCPH2frozen——3d ago
22GPT-2 124M trained from scratch

2.48B tokens, 2.8h on 4 A40s

OSRCHN10—002d ago
23OpenClean

Free, open-source Mac cleaner you can read and undo

OSRCPH2frozen——4d ago
24GovTech Index, the state of government open sourceOSRCHN10—002d ago
25GuiaFlow

Build interactive product tours, free and open source

OSRCPH2frozen——4d ago
26A minimalistic building blocks style C++ coroutine libraryOSRCHN10—002d ago
27WaterSheep

The open-source alternative to Jev

OSRCPH2frozen——5d ago
28eqMini

Open-source macOS equalizer with per-app controls

OSRCHN10—002d ago
29EffectCraft Guide

An independent guide to the open-source AE alternative

OSRCPH2frozen——5d ago
30CueLight

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

OSRCHN10—003d ago
31Babel Life

Possible lives hidden in Borges' Library of Babel

OSRCPH2frozen——5d ago
32Bokal

Open-source cookie editor without the "tabs" permission

OSRCHN10—003d ago
33Cuedex: AI Prompt Library

Spark extraordinary results from any AI.

OSRCPH2frozen——6d ago
34I tried SERPSpur as an alternative to semrushOSRCHN1frozen——03d ago
35Misaca

A free, folder-first photo library for Windows

OSRCPH1+1IPO—16h ago
36Multi persona library to eradicate Spec HallucinationOSRCHN10—003d ago
37MineForm

Alternative to Google Forms

OSRCPH10—030h ago
38Pluto

open-source second-brain for work

OSRCHN10—005d ago
39Laravel Support Portal Starter Kit

Stop rebuilding support portals from scratch

OSRCPH10—030h ago
40Podway

your self-hosted apps, run by an AI admin

OSRCHN10—004d ago
41Logoshots

Free 65k+ Icon Library, Customize colors, background online.

OSRCPH1frozen——2d ago
42Keepjson

Open-source jsonbin.io alternative on Cloudflare Workers

OSRCHN10—004d ago
43Tillora

Self-hosted multi-tenant POS & inventory SaaS on Laravel

OSRCPH1frozen——2d ago
44RME

open-source Android scanner with no INTERNET permission

OSRCHN10—005d ago
45Raging Page

Free, open-source screenwriting app in your browser

OSRCPH1frozen——2d ago
46Simplify Calculator

A library of simplifications

OSRCPH1frozen——3d ago
47Sill

Sill, any window from your Mac on iOS, free and open source

OSRCPH1frozen——3d ago
48Paperwing

The free, open-source alternative to Adobe Acrobat

OSRCPH1frozen——4d ago
49DeepSeekBot

Open-source Grok Bot alternative built on DeepSeek Harness

OSRCPH1frozen——6d ago
50Ablate

Understand and measure refusal behavior in open-source LLMs.

OSRCPH1frozen——6d 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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