Caramel
a speech-to-speech conversation model trained only on audio
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Strong launch
Beat 77% of Show HN launches that day
#23 of 179 on Nov 11
#2 of 4 Communication & Meetings launches on Show HN on Nov 11. 0.0% of Communication & Meetings launches (0 of 12) reached 10+ points in the last 7 days. See Communication & Meetings →
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 18, 03:05 UTC).
comments · buzz 0 in latest interval
listed Nov 11, 03:05 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 4points
- Comments
- 0
- Rank in COMM this week
- #5of 17 HN
- Rank overall this week
- #137of 1,038 HN
- Sector hit rate
- 0.0%0/12 · 7D
- Traction line
- Below10+ points
- First reading
- 3Nov 11, 10:42 UTC
- Last reading
- 4Nov 13, 10:27 UTC
- Readings
- 3over 55h
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Top on Nov 11 · 179 Show HN launches that day, by points
- #1YogurtFree, private, open-source alternative to Granola290 points
- #2I recreated Papers Please but you're deciding which YC startups to fund239 points
- #3Black Ops II statically recompiled to native ARM64 macOS149 points
- #4Godbolt-in-a-floating-window for Neovim (C, C++, Rust)104 points
- #5Klad, a paint app your coding agent can drive (source-available)83 points
More in Communication & Meetings · top Show HN launches, last 7 days
- Apron Chat Protocol44 points▲ +44
- Commune, one feed for newsletters on Beehiiv, Kit, Ghost, and more6 points0
- Tell the Skymessage lanterns drift on winds from live weather data6 points0
- Thread Police eliminates stray replies in Slack channels with Jev5 points0
- I'm 15 and my personal website looks like iMessage4 points0
Grades · each graded against other Communication & Meetings launches from the same source
Momentum
—+0 points
Traction gained in the latest daily interval
Too few peers to grade (13; need 20)
Velocity
B0.08 points/h
Votes per hour since listing (age capped at 48h)
Better than 75% · vs 64 Communication & Meetings · 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 · #23 of 179 Show HN launches on 2026-11-11
- #21Buy the whole stock market in one cheap fund and get on with your life4 points
- #22Crayon, the web's first personalized newspaper (1995), relaunched4 points
- #23Caramel4 points
- #24A company running in an AI harness4 points
- #25HC4 points
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