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Beat 79% of Show HN launches that day
#15 of 96 on Nov 8
#3 of 7 AI Tools & LLM Apps launches on Show HN on Nov 8. 7.5% of AI Tools & LLM Apps launches (3 of 40) reached 10+ points in the last 7 days. See AI Tools & LLM Apps →
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, 18:32 UTC).
comments · buzz 0 in latest interval
listed Nov 8, 18:32 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 4points
- Comments
- 4
- Rank in AITL this week
- #7of 47 HN
- Rank overall this week
- #137of 1,038 HN
- Sector hit rate
- 7.5%3/40 · 7D
- Traction line
- Below10+ points
- First reading
- 4Nov 9, 10:27 UTC
- Last reading
- 4Nov 13, 10:27 UTC
- Readings
- 5over 112h
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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 AI Tools & LLM Apps · top Show HN launches, last 7 days
- AI Red Lineswrite down what would make you act on AI36 points▲ +36
- LLM weight editing tool made by a 15-year-old14 points0
- Airgap-checkfind what your AI app silently downloads offline11 points0
- TheoremSmithMass-Producing Hard Proof Problems to Train LLMs10 points0
- AI boom or bust, US war footing or not (four scenarios to 2029)5 points0
Grades · each graded against other AI Tools & LLM Apps launches from the same source
Momentum
C+0 points
Traction gained in the latest daily interval
Better than 49% · vs 41 still-tracked AI Tools & LLM Apps · Show HN launches
Velocity
A0.08 points/h
Votes per hour since listing (age capped at 48h)
Better than 82% · vs 193 AI Tools & LLM Apps · Show HN launches, last 30 days
Engagement
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Comments per 10 points
Needs 10+ points; below that the ratio is mostly noise
Staying Power
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Votes at last reading ÷ votes at first reading
Needs 10+ points and readings from two runs
Launch-day race · #15 of 96 Show HN launches on 2026-11-08
- #13I'm 15 and my personal website looks like iMessage4 points
- #14Velorki4 points
- #15Is your product AI slop?4 points
- #1625 LTC Bounty to find a bug in Lean 4 formal Yang-Mills proof4 points
- #17psi, a 6.4 MB cross-platform portable coding agent in ANSI C & Lua4 points
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Data as of Nov 13, 2026, 9:22 AM UTC. Sector comes from keyword rules on the title and tagline and can be wrong. How it works