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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.
launches · Oct 15–Oct 17 vs Oct 8–Oct 10 (same weekday)
Most buzz (comments gained) over the latest interval (Oct 17, 13:13 UTC → Oct 18, 13:29 UTC, 24.3h). 58 matches. Spam giveaways excluded.
| # | Sector | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sphinx A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping | DEVT | 168 | +168IPO | — | 50 | 9h ago | |
| 2 | Llmspeed feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware | HDWR | 308 | +192 | ▲ +165.5% | 44 | 33h ago | |
| 3 | Esp32sim Run ESP32 firmware in the browser | HDWR | 180 | +180IPO | — | 33 | 23h ago | |
| 4 | High-quality duck audio synthesizer | MDIA | 148 | +148IPO | — | 33 | 24h ago | |
| 5 | Things to Do API | DEVT | 50 | +44 | ▲ +733.3% | 22 | 37h ago | |
| 6 | 500 clocks in one 6.3 MB HTML file by Opus 5.5 | DEVT | 53 | +53IPO | — | 19 | 9h ago | |
| 7 | Parin A 2D game engine between raylib and Godot, written in Dlang | GAME | 65 | +63 | — | 15 | 2d ago | |
| 8 | Wonderhop A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do | GAME | 116 | +16 | ▲ +16.0% | 12 | 4d ago | |
| 9 | Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft | AITL | 245 | +17 | ▲ +7.5% | 8 | 47h ago | |
| 10 | I got tired of btop not seeing my Mac's chip, so I built siltop | PROD | 17 | +2 | ▲ +13.3% | 5 | 30h ago | |
| 11 | Fakeipedia Wikipedia for worlds that don't exist | WRIT | 42 | +13 | ▲ +44.8% | 4 | 37h ago | |
| 12 | Claude Code, deploy using thevibehosting.com == Your app on root Linux | AGNT | 1 | 0 | — | 4 | 28h ago | |
| 13 | Pay-per-Crawl make AI crawlers pay per page in USDC, for 10 stacks | CRPT | 8 | +8IPO | — | 3 | 19h ago | |
| 14 | Indigene Native plants for where you stand | TRVL | 119 | +1 | ▲ +0.8% | 3 | 5d ago | |
| 15 | Fast, secure JSON Formatter with side-by-side JSON diffing | DEVT | 5 | +5IPO | — | 2 | 6h ago | |
| 16 | I reverse engineered serum 2 and build an open source alternative | OSRC | 4 | +4IPO | — | 2 | 20h ago | |
| 17 | MoroccoAPI An open source API for Moroccan public data | DEVT | 3 | +3IPO | — | 2 | 13h ago | |
| 18 | JSynth Visual Programming Editor for Julia | DEVT | 3 | +3IPO | — | 2 | 6h ago | |
| 19 | Flying rocket car x Flappy Bird | HDWR | 2 | +2IPO | — | 2 | 20h ago | |
| 20 | Cosplay as a tech lead, using gVisor to sandbox agents | AGNT | 2 | +2IPO | — | 2 | 11h ago | |
| 21 | XY Music Notation | MDIA | 86 | +1 | ▲ +1.2% | 2 | 4d ago | |
| 22 | 2026 Midterms Tracker blends polls and Kalshi/Poymarket odds | CRPT | 12 | +1 | ▲ +9.1% | 2 | 43h ago | |
| 23 | Fly a Tesla Roadster over parked Teslas before the air runs out | MISC | 9 | +1 | ▲ +12.5% | 2 | 38h ago | |
| 24 | Club Pigeon A multiplayer pigeon park with SNES-style minigames | SOCL | 5 | +1 | — | 2 | 27h ago | |
| 25 | Biblio Times, your RSS feeds, typeset as a morning newspaper (Mac/iOS) | WRIT | 4 | +1 | — | 2 | 30h ago | |
| 26 | Twain, a diff viewer like Meld, but for the age of AI | DEVT | 3 | +1 | — | 2 | 35h ago | |
| 27 | Baa find and free what your AI agents left running on your Mac | AGNT | 1 | +1IPO | — | 2 | 20h ago | |
| 28 | Risphai picks the AI model, tools and prompt for each request | AITL | 1 | +1IPO | — | 2 | 4h ago | |
| 29 | Weatheristic.com to answer questions other weather sites don't | TRVL | 4 | 0 | — | 2 | 2d ago | |
| 30 | Flipflop Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing | MISC | 146 | +6 | ▲ +4.3% | 1 | 3d ago | |
| 31 | Stoke Money Personal finance app built around a cash flow forecast | FINT | 32 | +3 | ▲ +10.3% | 1 | 42h ago | |
| 32 | PrimerKit, financial market work at agent speed | AGNT | 3 | +3IPO | — | 1 | 15h ago | |
| 33 | Benchmarking LLM ability to code in an adversarial language | DEVT | 3 | +3IPO | — | 1 | 3h ago | |
| 34 | Proa A Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering | DEVT | 107 | +2 | ▲ +1.9% | 1 | 2d ago | |
| 35 | GitGud a free, open-source Git GUI with undo for any action | DEVT | 2 | +2IPO | — | 1 | 21h ago | |
| 36 | Bitty Turn AI coding wait time into brain breaks | DEVT | 2 | +2IPO | — | 1 | 20h ago | |
| 37 | I Made 17 AIs Play 7,700 Hands of Poker | GAME | 2 | +2IPO | — | 1 | 18h ago | |
| 38 | MyBox, Personal Digital Box | MISC | 2 | +2IPO | — | 1 | 4h ago | |
| 39 | Right-click any log line to see its call stack in VS Code | DEVT | 6 | +1 | ▲ +20.0% | 1 | 25h ago | |
| 40 | Lisorto Tidy your Mac's Downloads on-device, see every move first | PROD | 4 | +1 | — | 1 | 2d ago | |
| 41 | CoastMath (Open Source) Personal Finance and Retirement Planner | FINT | 3 | +1 | — | 1 | 41h ago | |
| 42 | Katalog a fast local music library app for Mac (91k tracks in ~1s) | MDIA | 3 | +1 | — | 1 | 2d ago | |
| 43 | Pdf2epub free PDF to ePub converter with real chapters | PROD | 3 | +1 | — | 1 | 2d ago | |
| 44 | Halal Crypto Index AAOIFI Shariah compliance screener for 800 coins | CRPT | 1 | +1IPO | — | 1 | 18h ago | |
| 45 | Free Tool to Extract Tables from PDFs and Images to CSV/Excel | INFR | 1 | +1IPO | — | 1 | 18h ago | |
| 46 | Put AI to work across your company | BOPS | 1 | +1IPO | — | 1 | 15h ago | |
| 47 | Nexo S3-compatible object storage in Go, single binary, AGPL | INFR | 1 | +1IPO | — | 1 | 14h ago | |
| 48 | I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox | COMM | 114 | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 3d ago | |
| 49 | Parsimony an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add | DEVT | 77 | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 4d ago | |
| 50 | Just gave Claude Code the website and ad budget to see what it would do | AGNT | 11 | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 2d 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