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. 137 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
1CSuite

All-in-one suite for AI content creation, fully private.

WRITPH65frozen——4d ago
2Sygal

Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally

WRITHN46+1▲ +2.2%02d ago
3Calenteri

SaaS where a user can can book appointments to other users.

WRITPH57frozen——2d ago
4Fakeipedia

Wikipedia for worlds that don't exist

WRITHN42+13▲ +44.8%437h ago
5TypeKey

AI writing tools and a keyboard for your iPhone

WRITPH10+10IPO—36h ago
6News.txt

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

WRITHN600.0%05d ago
7ComicInk

Turn your story into a comic where the cast stays the same

WRITPH9frozen——5d ago
8HarmoNova

A modern, customizable Hacker News reader for Chrome

WRITHN40—06d ago
9Macaroni

A Markdown viewer that shows what changed since you read it

WRITPH9frozen——5d ago
10Hooked

Swipe through the first lines of classic books Tinder-style

WRITHN40—02d ago
11Syllaby Mobile App

Save Up to 70% Of Your Content-Creation Time on the Go

WRITPH9+9IPO—16h ago
12Biblio Times, your RSS feeds, typeset as a morning newspaper (Mac/iOS)WRITHN4+1—230h ago
13WordBuzz

Free party word generators for Charades, Imposter,Pictionary

WRITPH8frozen——5d ago
14ƜackDown

Win64 Native Markdown Viewer

WRITHN40—002d ago
15Lampole

Everyone shoots. Nobody posts. One slideshow at 9 AM.

WRITPH6frozen——3d ago
16Turn newsletters and blogs into a podcast feedWRITHN20—03d ago
17Threadeazy

Write in your voice. Schedule a month of Threads posts.

WRITPH6frozen——5d ago
18Phrack.org RSS FeedWRITHN20—03d ago
19WordNet Explorer

See how words relate, by meaning and by real-world usage

WRITPH4+1—030h ago
20Markdown to Doc in a ClickWRITHN20—004d ago
21TypePress: Typewriter Writing

Write Like it's 1962.

WRITPH4frozen——3d ago
22Cenntre

a creator-first platform for publishing and monetization

WRITHN20—005d ago
23Riff

Riff a post or a reply, written on your device

WRITPH4frozen——5d ago
24Rad PDFs

Hacker News for PDFs Only

WRITHN10—02d ago
25MIRA Stories

The AI online photo book: photos in, story out

WRITPH3+3IPO—16h ago
26Daily HN 'Front Page' and 'Show HN' RSS FeedsWRITHN10—002d ago
27SCM

Open models that turn text + a question into probabilities

WRITPH30—030h ago
28Content-adaptive display brightness for macOS with DDC/CI supportWRITHN10—003d ago
29PM Book Summaries by AllthingsPM

111 product management books, summarized chapter by chapter

WRITPH30—030h ago
30Ferry

RSS reader that ranks stories by how many outlets cover them

WRITHN10—003d ago
31DocTree

Turn any topic into a guided reading experience

WRITPH30—030h ago
32Sonder, A free, open-source native Markdown editor for MacWRITHN10—004d ago
33Emblee

Understand everyday language - with grammar and context

WRITPH30—030h ago
34We tested how 5 LLMs handle failed write actions (duplicate prevention)WRITHN10—005d ago
35GuessThatBook: For non-fiction readers

A tiny daily habit for curious non-fiction readers

WRITPH3frozen——2d ago
36Free, interactive digital logic contentWRITHN10—004d ago
37Inkiostro: Markdown Editor

Markdown editor with versions, LaTeX & EPUB. No subscription

WRITPH3frozen——3d ago
38Write once. Explain well. Publish on the web and on paperWRITHN10—006d ago
39Quiet Digest

Your saved links, as one calm e-book on your Kindle

WRITPH3frozen——4d ago
40Samemark, a remark-parse compatible Markdown parser that is 10x fasterWRITHN10—006d ago
41TextMatchCut

Text Match Cut

WRITPH3frozen——4d ago
42Cohesive

one button for when your thumb opens the feed on its own

WRITHN10—005d ago
43SeoJae Story

Classic books in easy English, with Korean under every line

WRITPH2+2IPO—16h ago
44Authrot

extract your story elements out of chapters and graph them

WRITHN10—005d ago
45The Whole Day

News that ends

WRITPH2+2IPO—16h ago
46Good News Digest

All the things going right in the world.

WRITPH20—030h ago
47Torcul

Your Word manuscript as a KDP print PDF, EPUB and cover

WRITPH20—030h ago
48Kelados

Speak, It's written

WRITPH20—030h ago
49EasyView_Md

Markdown, Word and Excel in one project window

WRITPH2+1—030h ago
50Quire

Private EPUB, PDF and Markdown readers for Chrome

WRITPH2frozen——3d 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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