Claude Opus 5.5 (Max) best at generating startup ideas
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Middle of the pack
Beat 67% of Show HN launches that day
#25 of 96 on Nov 8
20.0% of Business Ops & SMB Software launches (1 of 5) reached 10+ points in the last 7 days. See Business Ops & SMB Software →
points · traction gained Nov 12, 10:31 UTC → Nov 13, 10:27 UTC · % shown only when the previous traction was 5+
Still tracked: re-read by each daily run while under ~168h old (window closes ~Nov 15, 20:11 UTC).
comments · buzz 0 in latest interval
listed Nov 8, 20:11 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 3points
- Comments
- 0
- Rank in BOPS this week
- #2of 8 HN
- Rank overall this week
- #204of 1,038 HN
- Sector hit rate
- 20.0%1/5 · 7D
- Traction line
- Below10+ points
- First reading
- 3Nov 9, 10:27 UTC
- Last reading
- 3Nov 13, 10:27 UTC
- Readings
- 5over 110h
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Top on Nov 8 · 96 Show HN launches that day, by points
- #1Ghanaian street games you can play in the browser115 points
- #2MicronOberon with the Power of C66 points
- #3Build a PC in 3D in the Browser55 points
- #4RecalcSpreadsheet where cells can be Claude Code or Codex terminals37 points
- #5MapleSub-2-BPW Moe Pruning to Run Gemma 4 26B at 45 TPS on a 6GB GPU21 points
More in Business Ops & SMB Software · top Show HN launches, last 7 days
- Black Ops II statically recompiled to native ARM64 macOS149 points▲ +3
- Real-time inventory of natural stone slabs in US3 points▲ +3
- Sextant, one command to tune Firefox and Chrome with admin policies2 points▲ +2
- Estimate the carbon footprint of your company's AI use (open data)2 points0
- Forced to build my own Harvest alternative tracking and invoicing1 points0
Grades · each graded against other Business Ops & SMB Software launches from the same source
Momentum
—+0 points
Traction gained in the latest daily interval
Too few peers to grade (5; need 20)
Velocity
B0.06 points/h
Votes per hour since listing (age capped at 48h)
Better than 74% · vs 29 Business Ops & SMB Software · Show HN launches, last 30 days
Engagement
——
Comments per 10 points
Needs 10+ points; below that the ratio is mostly noise
Staying Power
——
Votes at last reading ÷ votes at first reading
Needs 10+ points and readings from two runs
Launch-day race · #25 of 96 Show HN launches on 2026-11-08
- #23My first project, an AI-powered financial news analyzer3 points
- #24Record, branch, and compare command runs in stdlib-only Python3 points
- #25Claude Opus 5.5 (Max) best at generating startup ideas3 points
- #26Elo Ratings for Tests, ODIs, and T20Is3 points
- #27Loop3 points
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