We wanted to build an AI application, not maintain RAG pipelines
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Beat 76% of Show HN launches that day
#42 of 198 on Nov 10
#2 of 12 AI Tools & LLM Apps launches on Show HN on Nov 10. 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 17, 15:37 UTC).
comments · buzz 0 in latest interval
listed Nov 10, 15:37 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 3points
- Comments
- 1
- Rank in AITL this week
- #10of 47 HN
- Rank overall this week
- #204of 1,038 HN
- Sector hit rate
- 7.5%3/40 · 7D
- Traction line
- Below10+ points
- First reading
- 3Nov 11, 10:42 UTC
- Last reading
- 3Nov 13, 10:27 UTC
- Readings
- 3over 67h
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Top on Nov 10 · 198 Show HN launches that day, by points
- #1Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives439 points
- #2Valencia, Spain in Sim City/Isometric View252 points
- #3A 15 MB self-hosted Netflix and Spotify for your media server168 points
- #4AircadProfessional drafting and 3D modeling in the browser90 points
- #5I have trained 15 blood glucose forecasting models on my own data20 points
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- 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
B0.06 points/h
Votes per hour since listing (age capped at 48h)
Better than 74% · 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 · #42 of 198 Show HN launches on 2026-11-10
- #40I checked 66 AI tools' privacy policies for AI training3 points
- #41Ramble3 points
- #42We wanted to build an AI application, not maintain RAG pipelines3 points
- #43QueenMQ3 points
- #44Padwan AI, an LLM Client for Python with HTTP/2 and HTTP/33 points
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