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Middle of the pack
Beat 50% of Show HN launches that day
#63 of 181 on Nov 12
#4 of 9 Data & Infrastructure launches on Show HN on Nov 12. 12.2% of Data & Infrastructure launches (6 of 49) reached 10+ points in the last 7 days. See Data & Infrastructure →
points · since listing → Nov 13, 10:27 UTC
Still tracked: re-read by each daily run while under ~168h old (window closes ~Nov 19, 23:04 UTC).
comments · buzz 0 in latest interval
listed Nov 12, 23:04 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 2points
- Comments
- 0
- Rank in INFR this week
- #14of 47 HN
- Rank overall this week
- #339of 1,038 HN
- Sector hit rate
- 12.2%6/49 · 7D
- Traction line
- Below10+ points
- First reading
- 2Nov 13, 10:27 UTC
- Last reading
- 2Nov 13, 10:27 UTC
- Readings
- 1over 11h
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Top on Nov 12 · 181 Show HN launches that day, by points
- #1My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app516 points
- #2AgentRunopen-source, Self-improving Managed Agents103 points
- #3Fable52.gamesPlay and inspect Fable 5.2 single-file HTML games68 points
- #4KapsoIterative learning from enterprise data45 points
- #5Apron Chat Protocol44 points
More in Data & Infrastructure · top Show HN launches, last 7 days
- A 15 MB self-hosted Netflix and Spotify for your media server168 points▲ +1
- I created a library for correctly using SQLite in Go programs23 points▲ +2
- MapleSub-2-BPW Moe Pruning to Run Gemma 4 26B at 45 TPS on a 6GB GPU21 points0
- Daily GPU Rental Prices Across AWS, Azure, RunPod and Vast.ai15 points0
- Pgxioa tiny PostgreSQL layer inside Nginx10 points0
Grades · each graded against other Data & Infrastructure launches from the same source
Momentum
——
Traction gained in the latest daily interval
Listed in the latest interval; no earlier reading to compare
Velocity
A0.19 points/h
Votes per hour since listing (age capped at 48h)
Better than 89% · vs 201 Data & Infrastructure · 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
Still being tracked; graded once settled (48h)
Launch-day race · #63 of 181 Show HN launches on 2026-11-12
- #61Lynx2 points
- #62A canvas terminal app written in Rust with built-in agent integration2 points
- #63ActiveDNS, a free DNS search service2 points
- #64Bugsy2 points
- #65Animate4Me2 points
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